Mooring hook, (Another one!)

[LoneHort]

While looking at the various mooring hooks out there and there are lots I came across this which seems very well built and simple to use.
http://www.wosamma.at/moorhook/function_en.php

Has anyone tried it?

 

[LadyInBed]

I have a plastic version of that style of wishbone, it's about 25 years old now and still hasn't broken!

PS HERE is a 'modern' equivalent

 

[RupertW]

I also have a cheapo plastic version which does the essential thing (for me) that some other designs do not, which is to actually pass a rope through the ring so you are doubled up. I have no time at all for those which attach a hook to the ring or cleat so you have just a single line attached. You can't release it without getting near the ring.

 

[Richard10002]

While looking at the various mooring hooks out there and there are lots I came across this which seems very well built and simple to use.
http://www.wosamma.at/moorhook/function_en.php

Has anyone tried it?

Looks good but out of stock

 

[johnalison]

One of the delights of places such as Fowey is that you can spend a happy evening watching new arrivals trying to use their buoy hooks, with usually mixed success. I'm sure that some of them work, sometimes, but there is clearly a knack to it.

 

[C08]

The only thing is does not show hooking is onto a standard Walcon pontoon cleat. It does look well made though.

 

[RupertW]

One of the delights of places such as Fowey is that you can spend a happy evening watching new arrivals trying to use their buoy hooks, with usually mixed success. I'm sure that some of them work, sometimes, but there is clearly a knack to it.

My technique is to be firmly attached to a buoy before I deploy it.

 

[BelleSerene]

The only thing is does not show hooking is onto a standard Walcon pontoon cleat. It does look well made though.

That’s what their third short video clip shows, at the OP’s web link.

 

[Guise]

Unlike RupertW we use a single line caribiner style hook and love it, instant, secure, attachment to buoys, Walcon cleats etc and then time to sort things out later. Most useful on the midship fairlead in marinas, with the line led back to the Genoa winch, the crew hooks onto the first cleat, the helm surges the line with slow ahead and the helm hard over until we're in the right position, then moor up at leisure.

 

[LittleSister]

I have no time at all for those which attach a hook to the ring or cleat so you have just a single line attached. You can't release it without getting near the ring.

That's certainly not the case with all of them. I have one (can't remember name) with a stainless hook that latches onto the buoy (or whatever). It has a thin cord running down the centre of the main rope, exiting a couple of metres or so away from the hook. Tug on that and the hook releases.

 

[BelleSerene]

I have no time at all for those which attach a hook to the ring or cleat so you have just a single line attached. You can't release it without getting near the ring.

agreed, but some, you can. https://swi-tec.ch/en/anlegemanover.../mooring_buoy_hook-art_1031_standard_up_to_8t

 

[Bouba]

Whilst dog walking on the beach today and trying to clip the extendable lead onto his harness as we passed some picnickers. I realized that the big money for these devices is not in the marine industry but for doggers

 

[MoodySabre]

I have a mooring duck. Works well as long as the eye you are trying to catch is not too large like they are in W Mersea.

 

[BelleSerene]

Whilst dog walking on the beach today and trying to clip the extendable lead onto his harness as we passed some picnickers. I realized that the big money for these devices is not in the marine industry but for doggers

I think you might be on the wrong forum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogging_(sexual_slang)