Shepards crook Boat hook.

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Lost my wonderful boat hook at the weekend in an incident involving a big white bouy, strong tide and opposing wind and a broken gearbox linkage.....
It was one I brought a few years back and is a simple shepards crook type, I think a chap in Devon used to make them.
Cant see them on the Web anywhere ... does anyone know where I could get hold of one?
 
slingsby said:
Lost my wonderful boat hook at the weekend in an incident involving a big white bouy, strong tide and opposing wind and a broken gearbox linkage.....
It was one I brought a few years back and is a simple shepards crook type, I think a chap in Devon used to make them.
Cant see them on the Web anywhere ... does anyone know where I could get hold of one?
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Pete at Quay West Chandlery will sell you one. 01202 732233

I agree they are great.
 
I would have thought a shepherds crook would be too big for a boat hook. I have used this kind of head on a broom handle in the past. Nylon Boat Hook Head 30mm, $5.95 | Whitworths Marine. Very cheap floats and no tears if it is lost. However I do drill a hole through the end and thread a lanyard through in a loop that goes around your wrist so reducing chances of losing it.
However my current most used boat hook is a handle from an old mop. Ali tubing that telescopes. I got a piece of thin ali plate about 40mm wide by 200mm long. I wrapped this around the end of the tube and pop rivetted it to the tube and then to itself. The two ends coming together to make one thicker piece sideways out sideways like a fin. I then made a cut out in the fin to make a hook shape. Works fine to pick up dinghy painter. The best part is that it collapses to fit in the stern locker so easily grabbed on return to the mooring. ol'will
 
slingsby said:
Lost my wonderful boat hook at the weekend in an incident involving a big white bouy, strong tide and opposing wind and a broken gearbox linkage.....
It was one I brought a few years back and is a simple shepards crook type, I think a chap in Devon used to make them.
Cant see them on the Web anywhere ... does anyone know where I could get hold of one?
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Mylor Chandlery used to supply a very nice one in yellow tubing with a s/steel crook, made by somebody locally in Cornwall/Devon. Having looked it is no longer listed on their website. Give them a ring as they may be able to advise. We have had two, the first one having been lost overboard at Newtown. The second one is apparently filled with foam and supposedly floats - which no doubt we will test in due course.
 
I had one called a BoatCrook, sold by Simpson-Lawrence.
It was very useful but did not float.
It lies under one of the pontoons at Arzal marina, a couple of hours fishing for it having proved unsuccessfulI.
 
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