kliondan.blogg.se - Dock it boat loop

Golfers sign up for lessons to become golf pros.Skaters sign up for lessons to become great skaters.It should be used as originally intended, as a reaching pole-not a docking aid. Just because some boaters use a boat hook as a docking aid, doesn’t make it safe for your First Mate, or the right thing to do. Very unsafe! There is much more power in the motor(s), than there is in your First Mate’s fingers. In heavy wind, having the First Mate use arm and hand power to fend of the heavy boat is a really bad choice.The boat hook becomes more of a hindrance than a help. They can’t move from one opening to another quickly enough to fend off the boat, like they think they can.

In the cockpit of a mid-cabin boat with camper canvas, crew often get the boat hook tangled up in all the bows that hold the top up.

If they do make it to the forward deck, they find they don’t have enough hands to handle the boat hook and the dock line, so they lay it down while tossing the bow line, leaving the boat hook to roll off the deck into the harbor.

In the process of going to the forward deck, many First Mates who get the boat hook caught in the stanchions, end up tripping over them.

When you think you’ve got a cleat hooked for pushing to fend the boat off the edge of the dock, it slides off the cleat or the edge of the dock and you end up falling in.

When you snare a dock cleat with a boat hook and pull on it, the plastic handle can easily pop off, resulting in the pole falling into the water and sinking and you falling backwards onto the deck.

You usually need two hands to use a boat hook and it is more important to use one hand to hang on to the boat for safety and the other hand for dock line handling.

You could be on the cockpit floor or overboard, then unable to assist in the docking procedure. If you push or pull hard enough, you collapse it or pull it apart and then you are in trouble.

Telescoping boat hooks collapse unexpectedly, even if you have them tight when extended or short.

A Boat Hook is a reaching assist, not a boat docking aidĪ boat hook should not be used as a docking aid, in my opinion, for the “falling” reasons: This is not the best way to endear your partner to the joys of boating. Over time, the definition of a boat hook changed, and now people wrongly think it is an appropriate docking aid. Definition changedīoaters without docking skills, started using the boat hook as a docking aid to help pull the boat to the dock or fend off the dock. This is not the intended use and is not safe for the First Mate. They make it possible to retrieve items from the water, including items that have fallen overboard, as long as there is a loop to hook to.Įven though they are not safe or intended as a docking aid, you often see boaters use them to fend off the dock to prevent a crash or pull in the boat to the dock, when it is too far away to reach. Some are telescopic for compact stowing on a boat and adjustable for easier retrieval of dock lines that are hung on pilings. They have rounded ends and rounded hooks, so they won’t scratch or stick to docks or boats. For boaters, boat hooks were designed as reaching assists, to help retrieve or place a loop over a piling or pick up items that fall into the water.