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Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:09 pm
by cptron
We have several uses for ours. Roller Furling support while trailering, Whisker pole, snagging dock if in strong wind or current and the most recent has been rodent prevention. You heard right. We were anchored out behind an island at Wrightsville beach the other weekend at high tide and a rat that must have been caught by the rising tide swam over to visit and actually boarded us by the rudder ropes and jumped to the motor well. After chasing him out I gave him an attitude adjustment with the boat hook.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:26 pm
by mastreb
Plastic clips between the cockpit forward and next forward stanchions, just below the lifeline. always at hand, easy to re-clip.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:14 am
by Lvoight
do you have any link for the hooks? I have looked before and never found any.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:27 am
by RobertB
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:40 pm
by mastreb
Boathook holders:
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... ctId=42891
What I like about these is that you can unclip the far-end with the hook, so you can just unclip the near-end, grab the boathook by the handle, and rotate it to unclip the far-end. Makes it very fast to grab and right there at the cockpit.
And for the record, my boathook
is a regular boathook that telescopes from 6' to 15' in three segments. I've been very happy with it.
Also that watch I'm obviously very proud of is the Casio Pathfinder PAW-1500-T:
http://marchelloandco.com/079767892272-PAW1500T-7
Best sailing watch ever. Solar powered, atomic radio set, tides at a glance (important for launch ramp timing and currents), compass, barometric pressure graph over time so you can see the weather changes, etc. $250 bucks.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:06 pm
by Russ
mastreb wrote:
Also that watch I'm obviously very proud of is the Casio Pathfinder PAW-1500-T:
http://marchelloandco.com/079767892272-PAW1500T-7
Best sailing watch ever. Tides at a glance (important for launch ramp timing and currents), compass, barometric pressure graph over time so you can see the weather changes, etc. $250 bucks.
Not nearly as nice as my Zenith Defy Xtreme Tourbillon
http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Xtreme-Tou ... bs_watch_1
List Price: $205,000.00
Price: $112,750.00
You Save: $92,250.00 (45%)
Reviews
When I first bought this watch I had buyer's remorse. How could I possibly justify spending $[...] on a watch when I drive a 1992 Ford Festiva don't even own a home?
Then the most amazing this happened. Last night I was out at a bar with some friends. I walked up to the amazingly beautiful woman, and she looked at me, then my watch, and said the most wonderful thing, "Nice Watch." I took that opening and asked her for her number, and she laughed and told me to go away. Normally women just laugh and tell me to go away, so this was a huge improvement and worth every penny.
After a rather painful and embarrassing mishap with the Emma Boston Terrier - 10x10 Iron On Heat Transfer For White Material I decided to splurge on myself, at Christmas. Noticing that the price had dropped on this watch, I figured it was time to purchase...time.
Man, this watch is awesome, does everything it's supposed to do, is dead on accurate, attractive etc.
Really, for the watch itself - 5 stars.
But it's imperfect, in it's perfection.
It's TOO accurate.
So now my phone rings, like... everyday.
Some dude from the International Meridian Conference, in Greenwich, UK.
"What time do YOU have?"
Every freakin' day.
And really early in the morning, too.
I was all "Geezus, do you KNOW what time it is?" the first couple of times they woke me up, until I realized that... they didn't.
"GMT is an absolute time reference" my *ss.
My wrist is apparently the "absolute time reference" now.
Which is a lot of power for one person to wield.
And I AM only human, even when I'm wearing the watch.
I was feeling lazy the other morning, and didn't feel like rushing out of the house, and I confess I abused the power.
So when they called, I told them it was actually 17 minutes, 28 seconds EARLIER than it really was.
Messed things up, but good, for the rest of the planet (sorry!), but i got to finish the paper and have a second cup of coffee, and didn't get docked for being late when I got to the office.
So - totally worth it.
No worries, though. I have a plan. I'll gradually put those 17 minutes and 28 seconds BACK, over a 2 week span of phone calls.
Because my watch says that I CAN.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:29 pm
by mastreb
Yeah, I had to sell my Zenith Defy Xtreme Tourbillon. Way too annoying because every woman within visual distance would come over and hit on me because it was so awesome. Couldn't go out in public with that hunk of awesome on.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:54 pm
by BOAT
Wow, just like Kung Fu Panda, no extra charge for awesome.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:59 pm
by dlandersson
If you are going to have that watch, shouldn't you also have a 3 wolf moon t-shirt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB45AUmchM
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:33 pm
by Catigale
Where d these things get tide info....or is it just a rough guide by latitude and moon position??
I sail in areas with strong local tides and wonder if these things give useful info in this case.
Re: Perfect position for boathook
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:02 pm
by mastreb
Stephen, it indicates high tide, incoming, outgoing, low tide, and time of high-tide for the date selected. You can correct the time-of-high-tide when it drifts from reality, and it will recalculate everything from there.
It has no position information other than time-zone.
Thus far it's been accurate with the data is shipped with, and is really handy for figuring out at a glance what the currents are doing at my marina, which is in a tidal wetlands channel.
