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From: Bob Peterson (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 14:36:41 EDT
Sure Mike, West Marine sells them. Many Coast Guard Auxiliary rescue boats
outfit with such a device, to aid in connecting a towline to a smaller
boat's bow-eye, sometimes the only substantial deck/hull fitting that is
strong enough to endure towing. Problems have developed with cleats aboard
the disabled boat that are too small to take a larger towline; cleats that
are only attached with wood screws, yes it does happen; towlines that are
too big for use with the undersized cleats often seen on homebrew boats or
crews that can't understand English instructions for how to attach a towline
to their boat.
For these and similar reasons, many of our boats carry a beefy snaphook,
which slips into a holder on the end of a boathook that holds its jaws open
until the snaphook is slipped into the boweye and the boathook yanked away.
With a towline spliced onto the snaphook, you're all set for towing a small
sportboat or a dink.
Bob Peterson
47' Lien Hwa CMY
"Lopaka Nane"
San Francisco
-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of
Michael Redshaw
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:16 AM
To:
Subject: T&T: Mooring
Thanks to all for the insights from experience on picking up a mooring. If
I understand correctly, many moorings have a pendant which can be picked up
and cleated off onboard. Some only have a ring which must be captured by
either a large snap-hook arrangement or by running a heavy line through the
ring and again cleating off from the boat. We have a 41 Carver aft cabin
cruiser which has a pretty high freeboard. I'm not sure the mate could
reach a buoy from the midships entryway. Would perhaps need to run the
mooring line all way back to dive platform which is at water level. Would
seem there might be a market for some kind of heavy snap-hook arrangement at
end of a boat hook. One could reach down with the boathook and set the
metal snaphook right on the mooring buoy. Anyone know of such a product?
Thanks again for all the great advice.
Mike Redshaw
StarGazer
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