Where do you keep your boat hook?

[Boblee]

Mines clipped across the arch right behind my head when sitting behind the wheel and sits there permanenly waiting patiently.

[tomchitecture]

This is the one I want.

Sturdy, and I assume the wood floats.

http://www.shawandtenney.com/catalog/de ... /index.php

[pokerrick1]

YIKES!!! $199 for a boat hook??? I'll stick to Overton!

Rick

[hart]

I keep mine right next to the hinges on the head door (on the X):


Sailing by Brian Hart, on Flickr

That boathook died early this season and has since been replaced with a heavier duty one but that also fits the bracket I mounted. I like it there because it's easy to get to yet out of the weather.

[Catigale]

I keep 4 at the bottom of the lake just in case I need them.

+1000

[pokerrick1]

Hart;

A picture is worth 756 1/2 words. Great idea for a holder of long thin things and let them rest on the floor. Genius!

Rick

[csm]

I keep mine 90 degrees from where Hart mounted his; above the head door. I never ever have to use it for docking, but it does make a decent towel rack

[Hamin' X]

My telescoping pole is in the same spot as Brian's, in spring clips. Seems a natural. Always warn passengers that it is not a handhold.

~Rich

[snotnosetommy]

Vizwhiz
I sail an M25, nearly the same hull as your S. I have a fat WM telescoping pole on each side of the deck, clipped to the outside of the wooden cabin rails. Right under the lifelines. They stay in place just fine, but one hand pops 'em loose easy. I use one to drop a line over a post every time I dock.

[K9Kampers]

I keep mine 90 degrees from where Hart mounted his; above the head door. I never ever have to use it for docking, but it does make a decent towel rack

I do the same as csm. Laundry rack, light hanger, whisker pole, rudder-kicker-upper, trailer loading, passing a bag of salmon fillets between two s while sailing, but never for docking!

[fishheadbarandgrill]

Mounted in the head.

[Hamin' X]

Mounted in the head.

I wouldn't touch this one with a ten-foot-pole.

~Rich

[arknoah]

I guess I don't "keep" it anywhere. When I'm sailing, it rests on one of the cockpit seats. Perhaps silly, and perhaps it will fly out into the water, but I haven't figured out anything else to do with it yet!

[c130king]

I keep the boat pole, plus the dock lines (the normal two I use most of the time), plus the two fenders I normally use all stored on starboard side of the rear bunk. When I am getting ready to approach the pier/dock then I pull them out and set in the cockpit.

The starboard side of my rear bunk is sort of like my lazarette...

Cheers,
Jim

[vizwhiz]

Mounted in the head.

I wouldn't touch this one with a ten-foot-pole.

~Rich

Rich, I was trying to think of one for that...you did it!

I'll probably play with the boat hook storage on Saturday along with some antennae and cabling work...