Cheap fishing day shape

[rotrax]

Had a bit of a chucle a week or so ago after we were splashed after lift out.

It was a late splash due to the tide so we decided to spend the night on the Emsworth HM Pontoon.

A fishing boat picked up his mooring just opposite, unloaded his catch in cold boxes and zoomed off in his skiff.

His day shape was made of two black buckets bolted bottoms together!

As one of the worlds long time recyclers, long before it was fashionable, this hit the spot for me ?

 

[fisherman]

....wait for it........

 

[sarabande]

Ah, geometrically it is two frustrums rather than two cones, then ?

 

[RichardS]

I prefer fisherman's inverted cones welding in place.

Richard

 

[rotrax]

Ah, geometrically it is two frustrums rather than two cones, then ?

Yes, but surely the more common ones are too?

The netting ones appear to be most common in the Solent area with welded ones next.

Both are frustrums as for strength the centre is of some significant diameter.

A true pair of inverted cones would surely be weak at the centre.

I thought it was a good use of a pair of old buckets anyway ?

 

[Neeves]

I suppose if you had the new fangled folding buckets you could device a way to split them and deploy each, one above the other, as an 'I'm at anchor' buoy

I do like items that have dual or multiple uses.

Now what else do you use buckets for......

Jonathan

And we have plenty of need, and room, for a bit of levity

 

[Neeves]

But another idea, from my mate Roger Shaw - two traffic cones threaded together. One of the cones can have a dual marine use - to distribute chain in your anchor locker.

Jonathan