Reaching pole storage

[fred1diver]

Hello all
Any question for all of you

Where is your favorite place to store your reaching pole?
At the moment ours is inside on the cabin ceiling, two Velcro straps hold it securely in place.
It works well, but not that practical.
so we are looking to reinvent the wheel and find a way to make it secure and practical.
At the moment we only have one, thinking of getting a second one, saw someone use a painters pole with a reaching pole end, We do like the idea, but, the question remains, where do you store it?

I had a crazy idea I would like to share with you all to see if it makes sense.

what about adding clips on the boom to hold the pole? It would be easily accessible, might not look very good, but a small modification to the sail pack could hide it, what do you all think?

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

clipped on the mast?

 

[fred1diver]

Good idea, but I would like to have it near the cockpit for ease of use

 

[dLj]

My pole is far to long to store inside anywhere. I hang it from my stanchions along the life lines. Perhaps not the best place, but it works and remains pretty out of the way and easy to deploy. I've thought of adding a second pole and would just store it the same on the other side...

I would like to run it up the mast vertically but I have some challenges on my boat to do that. That is where most modern poles are now put.

dj

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

Good idea, but I would like to have it near the cockpit for ease of use

how do you ”use it” in the cockpit? Not trying to be a smart-ass but you use it from/ at the mast.

 

[Stu Jackson]

Many of these poles have a fitting that has the ss pin encased in an aluminum (usually black) fitting with the spring inside. When this pole i stored vertically, that fitting is usually at the bottom end. Because for those of us in saltwater the lower end could get hit with salt spray, the two dissimilar metals tend to freeze together.

That's why vertical storage at the mast, however convenient it really is, is not a great idea. I bought the deck fitting and used my adjustable mast ring to store mine vertically. After a winter of non-use, it froze and took lots of work to free it up and it's an expensive piece of hardware. If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy the mounts for lifeline storage. While the lifelines appear to be able to get sprayed, I've found more water comes over the foredeck. Plus it's easier to just flip the fittings and/or oil them when they are on the lifelines than the front of the mast where one rarely goes on a day-to-day basis.

 

[Project_Mayhem]

I store boat hooks along the cabin top hand rails. They rarely move. I just hook the front and usually leave the back free

 

[Davidasailor26]

We keep ours clipped to the bottom of two stanchions on the foredeck. Very convenient. In the winter I just put it on the cabin floor to keep it out of the elements.

 

[dlochner]

Hello all
Any question for all of you

Where is your favorite place to store your reaching pole?
At the moment ours is inside on the cabin ceiling, two Velcro straps hold it securely in place.
It works well, but not that practical.
so we are looking to reinvent the wheel and find a way to make it secure and practical.
At the moment we only have one, thinking of getting a second one, saw someone use a painters pole with a reaching pole end, We do like the idea, but, the question remains, where do you store it?

I had a crazy idea I would like to share with you all to see if it makes sense.

what about adding clips on the boom to hold the pole? It would be easily accessible, might not look very good, but a small modification to the sail pack could hide it, what do you all think?

Are you referring to a boat hook? A spinnaker pole? A whisker pole? or a Reaching strut? All are very different animals.

 

[RussC]

On my previous boat I installed a 2.5" aluminum tube in the cabin to stow my whisker pole. quick to access and out of the way when not in use. held in place by clipping to the black bungie cord with ball end.

 

[fred1diver]

My bad, boat hook

 

[shemandr]

On my H356 - Lazerette. It was telescoping.

 

[Davidasailor26]

My bad, boat hook

Ah, well that’s whole different matter. Like shemandr mine just fits in the lazarette telescoped.

 

[dLj]

My bad, boat hook

Hahaha - well we have solved all sorts of storage problems - now to move on to the more pertinent subject...

I have two boat hooks. One I keep along my coach roof - there are mounting fixtures in the coach roof. The second one I mount across my davits behind my cockpit.

dj

 

[dlochner]

We have 3 boat hooks, one is fully extended and "customized" to lie along the handrails on the cabin top. We use this one to pick up moorings.

Two more collapsible boat hooks hang from a horizontal support for the Bimini, the handle sits between the toe rail and coaming. After 10,000 miles there have been no issues with using or losing them.

 

[garymalmgren]

Mine was telescope type, but was fixed in the extended form years ago.
It is rigged vertically on the rear stay. This is from Carol Hasse's system of rigging the boat hook to her starboard shroud.
I have a short section of pvc pipe whipped to the turn buckle and plastic ring (larger diameter than the polehandle) whipped up the stay and a 5 mm line that ties the pole to the stay.
Gary

 

[Tally Ho]

I have two boat hooks available all of the time…one on either side of the companionway, and slid under the traveller. Keeps them in place and easy to grab when needed.

Sometimes, the Admiral acts as the holder…

Greg

 

[Terry Cox]

Now that the PO cleared up his post, the attached article that I published some time ago describes where I store our boat hooks. Two in the cockpit ready for immediate use and one below in a salon storage compartment. https://hunter.sailboatowners.com/mods.php?task=article&mid=45&aid=100171&mn=42

 

[fred1diver]

Very interesting @Terry Cox
I am currently working on a Bimini for our boat, this solution might be viable for us, we will see the height when the frame is in place and see if it is a viable solution

 

[Hayden Watson]

For storing my boat hook, I 4d printed a pair of keepers that holds it very nicely on the starboard sitee. The SS commercial ones I had tried always bent and did not hold well. The new one pops in an out with a very satisfying "Snap".

This thread got me to thinking, "'A dangerous thing.' 'I know!'". How often do y'all actually use your boat hook for fending your boat or catching a dock? I cannot remember the last time I used it for that. I occasionally use it to grab a crab pot if the counter-weight is in the wrong place so that the flag does not stand up. I also will use it to grab a mooring with the Happy Hooker attached. Other than that, it stays in its holder.