Help! I've forgotten what this gizmo is for?

[Stingo]

I was digging through a box full of old boatie things and found this and cannot remember what it is from or used for?

Any ideas?

 

[Stingo]

Ha! I think I remember now: it's a graphic representation of a typical TL;DR nerves post about anything vaguely related to anchors.

 

[RupertW]

I was digging through a box full of old boatie things and found this and cannot remember what it is from or used for?

Any ideas?

View attachment 158004

It looks to me like the attachment I used to have to convert my spinnaker to upwind sailing. I think the brand name was Minnd Farq

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Definitely a new age anchor. Try it and report back.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Definitely a new age anchor. Try it and report back.

IIRC The trials had mixed reviews, it didn’t kniw which way up to set.

 

[Boathook]

It's a special rudder attachment to keep the orca's away.

 

[greeny]

It's a special rudder attachment to keep the orca's away.

Beat me to it. Every one has one down here.

 

[lusitano]

Beat me to it. Every one has one down here.

Aldi have them on special next week - centre isle

 

[Praxinoscope]

looks like an Escher impossible construction, that can be drawn or created as a visual, but can't be made in reallity

 

[PCUK]

looks like an Escher impossible construction, that can be drawn or created as a visual, but can't be made in reallity

Party pooper!

 

[ash2020]

OMG, you've found the Bermuda Triangle!

 

[Stingo]

OMG, you've found the Bermuda Triangle!

Could it possibly be an auld skool of navigation "cocked hat" measuring thing?

 

[Buck Turgidson]

That's Wanswoth's boat suitability flowchart!

 

[KevinV]

It's for bracing all four corners of a triangle

 

[johnalison]

Can I have it back please?

 

[colind3782]

Pretty sure I have one in the shed. With any luck I still have the manual for it.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Its a three legged cross. Common in the New Forest apparently.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Its a three legged cross. Common in the New Forest apparently.

It makes some of the New Foresters cross…

 

[veshengro]

That is an oversize copy of an actual device. Normally about 10 CM high and made of plastic and coloured Gold, Silver or Bronze according to seniority, they are standard issue to Civil Servants for desk top use and known as DMAD's...Decision making Assistant Devices.

 

[jac]

Snurble Grip Thrubly if I’m not mistaKen?