Homemade tools

[Bouba]

continuing my series of my homemade tools…I came across this at the back of the boat’s tool cupboard…. I call it, scrubbing brush on a stick

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Better than your welded spanners and no doubt more useful.

 

[KevinV]

I call it, scrubbing brush on a stick

You are a marketing god - we are not worthy

 

[Bouba]

Then you will love my next project….my boat is on a finger berth…what I would like is an upright stand with two hooks on it…one with a mooring line so that as I come along side I can pick up a loop and put it over my mid-cleat and be instantly secured….the other hook will have the shore power on so that I can also plug in instantly.
It will be made purely from scrap metal in my workshop…no costs involved

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Then you will love my next project….my boat is on a finger berth…what I would like is an upright stand with two hooks on it…one with a mooring line so that as I come along side I can pick up a loop and put it over my mid-cleat and be instantly secured….the other hook will have the shore power on so that I can also plug in instantly.
It will be made purely from scrap metal in my workshop…no costs involved

What can possibly go wrong? Electrocution maybe.

 

[Bouba]

 

[Boathook]

Then you will love my next project….my boat is on a finger berth…what I would like is an upright stand with two hooks on it…one with a mooring line so that as I come along side I can pick up a loop and put it over my mid-cleat and be instantly secured….the other hook will have the shore power on so that I can also plug in instantly.
It will be made purely from scrap metal in my workshop…no costs involved

A few pictures will be expected of this work of art .....

 

[Bouba]

At the moment I run the extension cord to the electric outlet and curl it back up when I leave…a messy job that often involves washing your hands after. I’ve bought a new cable to be left permanently on the pontoon

 

[Boathook]

You already have the upright stand on the boat. Just need to add a few hooks !!

 

[Bouba]

Pictures will be forthcoming

 

[Fr J Hackett]

You already have the upright stand on the boat. Just need to add a few hooks !!

It sounds like he is planing to have a permanently live plug on the pontoon waiting to be dropped in the water.

 

[Bouba]

The pontoon has a channel down each side for the attachment of accessories

 

[Bouba]

The electric cable will be padlocked to stop any scroat from putting it in the water…something that has actually happened to me by night fishermen

 

[Seastoke]

You already have the upright stand on the boat. Just need to add a few hooks !!

Very poor mooring lines.

 

[Bouba]

Very poor mooring lines.

Cheeky bu99er !
All new, soft rope with stubber

 

[Refueler]

Cheeky bu99er !
All new, soft rope with stubber

Think he refers to the angle of the lines ....

 

[Bouba]

Think he refers to the angle of the lines ....

Well, the next time Mr Seastoke comes to visit...he can bring his protractor

 

[ylop]

Pictures will be forthcoming

There’s a commercial product available - (a stupid name I can’t remember - but looks a bit like a devils three pronged fork and found in the bigger chandlery catalogues) which has a flexible (sprung?) joint at the bottom so if you clip is as you come alongside it moves out the way.

I’m not sure your shore power is an amazing idea - but I have seen a boat which leaves a big “step” on the finger when it leaves and that step opened up (like a chest) to store stuff like that.

 

[Bouba]

There’s a commercial product available - (a stupid name I can’t remember - but looks a bit like a devils three pronged fork and found in the bigger chandlery catalogues) which has a flexible (sprung?) joint at the bottom so if you clip is as you come alongside it moves out the way.

I’m not sure your shore power is an amazing idea - but I have seen a boat which leaves a big “step” on the finger when it leaves and that step opened up (like a chest) to store stuff like that.

Yes, I’ve seen them also....but couldn’t find one anywhere online. Also each dock manufacturer has there own system for attachment. Still, making one won’t take long and it’s free

 

[Fr J Hackett]

There’s a commercial product available - (a stupid name I can’t remember - but looks a bit like a devils three pronged fork and found in the bigger chandlery catalogues) which has a flexible (sprung?) joint at the bottom so if you clip is as you come alongside it moves out the way.

I’m not sure your shore power is an amazing idea - but I have seen a boat which leaves a big “step” on the finger when it leaves and that step opened up (like a chest) to store stuff like that.

The problem is that it is leaving a live plug with exposed pins, it could be slightly better by changing the fittings on the boat and shore power cable such that the boat has the male fitting and the cable the female but even that is a shite idea with the potential for water to get in the plug and cause a short and trip the supply. I am sure his marina would not be happy with it.