Where can I buy...?

[pugwash]

Two things that I can't find for love nor money.
(1) A dan buoy that's non-inflatable -- just the old type you stick in a tube on the pushpit.
(2) A jack for a burgee with a wire thingy to which you attach the flag so it can spin around as the wind changes and doesn't wrap itself around the mast-head.
Any advice would be welcome.

 

[tony_brighton]

dont know about the flag thingy - but saw some rigid dan buoys at Port Solent's Marine Super Store just last month.

 

[Guest]

Beg, borrow or steal some brass braising rod from a car body shop and make your own wire flag thingy [by the way that is the correct nautical term fo it]

 

[philip_stevens]

Inglefield or Englefield clips.

regards,
Philip

 

[Guest]

I made a dan bouy from an old CB aerial ( the fibreglass type ) ,Shoved through a pop bottle filled with expanding foam so that the end with the metalfitting was showing about 1/3 of the length. This was sealed and the lot painted with reflective paint ( the type used on fishing floats ) . A small burgee was made from an old reflective jacket and tied to holes drilled at the top. It had to be adjusted with fishing weights tied to the bottom to float upright, but it works !

 

[Guest]

For the Dan Buoy stick ..... dunno !

BUt for the Burgee bit .....

You will need a 1/4" dowel, medium size piano wire about 18" long, a elctrical tag connector that has a hole through which you fasten to a terminal, soldering gear and patience. Plus a small screww to fit the tag connector, and glue - superglue best.

So first place burgee on piano wire at mid point and mark the end points of the burgee on the wire. Then bend sharply with pliers at 90 deg. at those points.
Next lay this wire against the dowel, having about 1" gap between them. Cut one wire end to match the middle of the top of the dowel. Mark the other wire end at the point it meets the dowel DO NOT CUT THIS ONE yet.
Now bend a nice clean circle in the last wire end that you DID NOT CUT and bend it over and back on itself at the mark ... forming a closed circle that loosely fits the dowel. Cut off excess.
Other end that you did cut, you solder on the electrical tag to form a pivot hole to fasten through into the dowel top end.
Don't put the solder iron away yet ..... run solder around the other wire end where the end forms the circle to stop this coming open.
Then take a scrap piece of wire and solder it along the top wire so that it overhangs the bend and can be bent down at an angle to run along the burgee top edge.
Now thread the burgee on and sew the above scrap overhang along the top edge, this then holds the burgee in place.
Finally thread the dowel through the circle and up to the tag and screw into a pre-drilled hole in the dowel end. Careful NOT to split the dowel end. Once you have this screw in place ..... drop superglue onto the dowel end to strengthen the end grain against splitting.

OK ??????