Moounting boat hook on the shrouds

[scruff]

If I was wanting to mount a boathook on the shrouds, are there any off the peg rings for this?

I imagine two wire clamps with a SS rings attached would be ideal.

It is a spike and hook type boat hook if that makes a difference.

Thanks

 

[l'escargot]

Long bit of plastic pipe held on with cable ties - or two short bits if you want to be fancy...

 

[theoldsalt]

As l'escargot suggests only mine are on the pushpit.

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[William_H]

How about a 10cm piece of plastic pipe lashed or clamped to the shroud at the bottom. Then you could try a ring of bungee lashed at the the top level. You spear the spike through the bungee then stretch the bungee as necessary to drop the handle into the bottom tube. Give it a try olewill

 

[jwilson]

I am not a fan of boat hooks stowed against the shrouds. Every time you go forward, sometimes in rough water, you grab the shroud to hold on to. If your hand finds the boathook instead of the wire, you have a less than solid object to grip. The same objection (for me anyway) applies to stowing it alongside coachroof-top grabrails.

 

[raven]

Agree about stowing alongside the coachroof grabrails - renders them virtually useless and therefore dangerous if the boats rolling.

 

[Stemar]

Leaving aside any safety issues, one idea that I liked has a foot or so of 2" drain pipe fixed (gaffer tape or whatever more elegant solution you devise) at the bottom and about 8" of the same pipe threaded on the shroud for the top. This piece has a 2-3" slot cut into it so it can engage with the hook, thereby holding everything firmly.

 

[prv]

Agree about stowing alongside the coachroof grabrails - renders them virtually useless and therefore dangerous if the boats rolling.

Kindred Spirit had a clever solution - the boathooks were the grabrails! They slid through hardwood blocks through-bolted to the cabin top, and a pin stopped them sliding out when not being used.

Stowing the boathook on the new boat has been a problem - along the grabrails has the problem already mentioned, plus on our boat also tends to catch the jib sheet during a tack. I was thinking of putting it up the lower shroud (it tends to be the cap shroud that we hold onto) but dad wasn't keen, on aesthetic grounds. We've just found that it fits snugly along the toe-rail on the foredeck; not sure yet whether it'll be awkward when walking along the leeward side well heeled over, or if I can stand on the boathook just as easily as the rail.

Pete

 

[Oldhairy]

As others have suggested; a piece of hose lashed to the shroud near but clear of the deck. Then a shackle that slides on the shroud. Hook the spike into the shackle and push up, put the blunt end into the hose. Held in 55kts with no problem.

 

[emandvee44]

Mounting Boathooks

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This is what we have, mounted on the port inner. Works ok.

Cheers,

Michael.

 

[scruff]

Brilliant, thanks guys. Most helpful