Where can I buy a pickup buoy like this?

[[70521]]

Hi All

I am looking for somewhere that sells a pickup buoy like this, does anybody know of anybody?

Thanks

 

[Seajet]

Try strolling around Plymouth at night and asking that !

Why the particular type, Force 4 sell useable ones ?

 

[charles_reed]

Try strolling around Plymouth at night and asking that !

Why the particular type, Force 4 sell useable ones ?

The ones on offer by most chandlers are pigs to pick up with a boathook.
However the only rope-handle one I've seen were in Co-Operative des Pecheurs in Treboul.

 

[FWB]

The ones on offer by most chandlers are pigs to pick up with a boathook.

No problem with a boat crook available from Mylor Chandlery

 

[geoid96]

I've seen some like that in Australia.
http://www.samallen.com.au/index_inner.php?page=100003&searchType=name&search=buoy&itemID=82&category=15
I don't know if anyone closer to home sells them.

 

[MoodySabre]

These are close to what you want - down the page a bit
http://www.boatgeardirect.co.uk/id16.html?gclid=CN64naXjtrkCFYOWtAodGRcASA

These don't need a boat hook http://marinestore.co.uk/Anchor_Marine_Mooring_Pick_Up_Buoy_Fluorescent_Orange.html

 

[RestlessL]

I used to have one just like the one shown. It went into the skip when the handle parted from its socket.

J

 

[markhomer]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

 

[bert49uk]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

+1

 

[pampas]

+1

 

[Trop Cher]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

This is exactly what my wife says as well!

 

[[70521]]

Try strolling around Plymouth at night and asking that !

Why the particular type, Force 4 sell useable ones ?

The only time I am in Plymouth after dark is

A) on a sailing boat in the sound or

B) Getting the ferry to France

I am not impressed with the "handle" type pickup buoys and want something that "junior crew" can pick up first time every time next summer.

 

[[70521]]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

Agreed, but my mooring tackle has a chain that is secured on deck. Pickup buoy is connected to the end of the chain.

 

[rob2]

I used to be on a swinging mooring with a chain rode. My pick up buoy was attached to the end of the chain with a rop of equal length to the top gear. This has two advantages, one is that you can pick up the rope with a boathook and the other is that the chain sinks, pulling the pick-up buoy close to the mooring buoy.

Rob.

 

[ffiill]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

Second that you pick up the rope by the buoy-the handle is for getting hold of the buoy not for picking it up.
Far more important is a good long boat hook.
Only last week in windy conditions i watched as a very swishy modern cruiser racer-one with vertical stem and curved intergrated coach roof-40 some foot- triedto pick up a visitors mooring buoy in Plockton harbour with a hook about 6 foot long-they finally just about managed it!
My hook is probably about 9 foot long!

 

[onesea]

+1 for hooking for rope not buoy, if you cannot adjust as suggested so you can.

Also buoy like suggested will only lead to sum Muppet in 40 foot shinny thing tieing rope through loop and breaking it. Big buoy small buoy combination also helps stops some (possibly same) Muppet lassoing buoy doing risk potential damage.

 

[yodave]

Agreed that length is good, but so is strength. We have an old aluminium 'flimsy' boathook and so I wanted to replace it over the closed season. I bought a new aluminuim extendable boathook which seemed quite rigid and sturdy, but it folded on first use (we have an auxilliary pick-up bouy attached to a larger Hippo bouy that holds the chain). We've been using the old flimsy one ever since, but I still want to find a long and robust replacement. That should be easy to source, but it's not.

 

[FWB]

Agreed that length is good, but so is strength. We have an old aluminium 'flimsy' boathook and so I wanted to replace it over the closed season. I bought a new aluminuim extendable boathook which seemed quite rigid and sturdy, but it folded on first use (we have an auxilliary pick-up bouy attached to a larger Hippo bouy that holds the chain). We've been using the old flimsy one ever since, but I still want to find a long and robust replacement. That should be easy to source, but it's not.

See post #4

 

[Seatrout]

Best way to hook a bouy is by the rope underneath, very easy and works every time and you dont need to go to expense of pickup bouy with handle

+1... the only easier MO is a danbouy as a pick-up

 

[yodave]

Hi Dylan, yes I read #4 and searched on the Mylor website. Found a product page, but no image so I bookmarked it. Going to measure the boathook we have, as I would prefer something a little longer. Thanks