Hook & Moor automatic boat hook - video and photo

[Jon]

Hook & Moor automatic boat hook for threading lines through mooring balls and post rings. 37-second video:

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[Frank S]

I started to write a comment but decided it wasn't worth the effort. While I can see some potential uses for it if it had a larger eye and was made out of some very durable composite. For the use they are showing it is more of a gimmicky gadget for those who spend their weekends lounging on their boats moored in a harbor slip or partying while some hired harbor boy/girl polishes the bright work and teak.

[Jon]

Yup, the plastic and thin material they probably got wrong, but the concept is legitimate. This is good fodder for a homemade version of a beefier tool.

However, knowing our guys, I would not be surprised if someone on this forum knows a specialty knot to accomplish this same goal.

[Frank S]

There does seem to be a higher than average collection of knowledge flowing through this site.

[ranald]

It's construction reminds me of a telescopic tool for retriving high fruit & doing light pruning: they break easily.
I do like the concept & it is the first thing moving(rope & hook) like a snake that i kinder like.

[12bolts]

Actually Frank, "Bright work" on a boat refers to the varnished timber more so than polished metal surfaces. But I get your drift

Cheers Phil

[PJs]

At their site I would question "forged aluminum" What the...maybe extruded. I agree it looks a bit flimsy but the hook and release concept is pretty good, not novel or great, imho. The video on their site shows a better slo-mo of the hook in various modes of operations.

[Frank S]

Actually Frank, "Bright work" on a boat refers to the varnished timber more so than polished metal surfaces. But I get your drift

Cheers Phil

Yep I should have said brass and teak There was a guy on a local lake where I used to construct boat docks and repair marinas who made pretty good living sanding off and re lacquering the wood surfaces of several boats in the marina once in a while he would skull one over to the crane haul it out of the water give the hull a good cleaning then sand it down and paint it with anti fouling paint.
Watching him use the rudder to skull a 45 footer through the harbor because the auxiliary engine wouldn't start was a sight to see the little 15 to 20 footers were nothing because many of them had dagger board keels. But the larger boats with fixed keels weighing upwards of 2 tons don't skull very well.

[Toolmaker51]

Yup, the plastic and thin material they probably got wrong, but the concept is legitimate. This is good fodder for a homemade version of a beefier tool.

However, knowing our guys, I would not be surprised if someone on this forum knows a specialty knot to accomplish this same goal.

There is a specialty not.......
..not be a freaking lubber.
Drop the beer or handful of butt.
Hop dockside and pass an eye through the cleat, over the bitt, or throw a hitch round that telephone pole sized timber holding whole dock in place.
That IS way you wear boat shoes, no?
Unless single handed, no logical purpose on the average weekender's 28 footer. If you have a boat and still no friends, something else is wrong.
Lol

[Jon]