Where can I buy a pickup buoy like this?

[FWB]

Well I posted the image. My boatcrook is about 6ft.
If you ring them they may be able to supply longer.

 

[yodave]

Thanks v much for the info on length. I saw your image, but wasn't 100% that was what was on offer via the Mylor website as there is no image. Ideally I'm looking for something a tad longer (to make it easier for the crew to compensate for my wibbly helmsmanship).

 

[JumbleDuck]

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

The chap who services my mooring supplied one of these, new, a couple of years ago. The handle pulled out about the third time I picked it up, but with lashings of superglue has stayed satisfactorily put ever since.

 

[garvellachs]

We use an old fender with a short loop of floating rope attached with a piece of plastic hose over it to keep it bent in a circle. Costs nothing if you have stuff in the shed and strong enough to hold the boat for a few seconds too while I persuade the helm to use the engine against the tide for a few more seconds etc.

 

[actionoptics]

Compass Marine Dartmouth sell a buoy with a metal loop on top . It's one of their Polyform US CM series.

 

[Mexican]

Made by Norfloat in Devon. Www.Norfloat.com

 

[Stork_III]

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.

These are quite good, have had two for 8 years no problems, except I suggest you superglue grip onto pole as tit can pull off.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TREM-FLOATING-BOAT-HOOK-210cm-LONG-/280873492740?_trksid=p2054897.l4276

 

[chal]

I have an Exe Buoy hook - bit pricey for a hook but it's good and long, and very solidly made. Website at http://www.exebuoyhook.co.uk/

 

[Strathglass]

Hi All

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

Thanks

I have one like that. Best pick up buoy I have ever had, but I cannot find where I got it from. Sorry

 

[[70521]]

I have an Exe Buoy hook - bit pricey for a hook but it's good and long, and very solidly made. Website at http://www.exebuoyhook.co.uk/

Thanks Chal, on of those are on my "I would really like a some point in time" list. They are so local I could save myself postage and walk over and collect it

 

[[70521]]

I have one like that. Best pick up buoy I have ever had, but I cannot find where I got it from. Sorry

I've found the manufacturer's web site they are Spanish, might need to drop them an e-mail to find out where they are sold in the UK

 

[bert49uk]

http://www.castrofishing.com/castrofishing/de/buoy-pkb-1.asp?nombre=3688&cod=3688&sesion=1347

 

[bert49uk]

http://www.boatgeardirect.co.uk/id16.html?gclid=CLrJjdDBwLkCFa7JtAodCg0A8g





this one is almost the same available uk

 

[Spirit of Glenans]

+1

 

[greenalien]

With reference to the first post,

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

+1. Stick to the simple, one piece moulded variety.