Some while back, there was a post on this list
from a member about a "Get Line Over Piling Device"
(GLOP-D). I can't seem to find it on this computer
at work, but SOMEBODY on the list should remember
who it was. It is on a list member's website, but
I can't remember who it was. If I recall, it was
developed specifically for canal/lock work
D C "Mac" Macdonald
m/v Another Adventure
Grand Lake in Oklahoma
USPS, USCGAux, AGLCA-217
-- "Ron Rogers" rcrogers6@kennett.net wrote:
From: "Ron Rogers" rcrogers6@kennett.net
To: "fred" fred@controlparts.com, great-loop@lists.samurai.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:04:17 -0500
Subject: Re: GL: rope-gripper stick for locking
First, there is a device for picking up moorings that
approximates your need. Since I am facing the same
situation this Summer, I have questions to add. What
if you used a PVC pipe as a pole with a line through it
and attached and the end of the line was spliced onto
a large steel hook? The PVC pole would allow you to
reach the pipe pole or cable, but you only hook it and
place it under tension - no clip-on.
Would that work, at least downwind?
Ron Rogers
1985 Willard 40
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred" fred@controlparts.com
To: great-loop@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: GL: rope-gripper stick for locking
|I love the Erie Canal, but locking single-handed as I often do, can be
| quite a comedy of errors.
|
| Locking singlehanded with a tail wind absolutely requires I pass a cleated
| rope around a pipe or cable on the lock wall. These are generally sturdy
| enough to keep my boat from swinging in the wind too much.
|
| The problem is, the deck I stand on is often 3 or 4 feet above the top of
| the pipe or cable that I need to pass that rope around.
|
| In locks that have very low walls, I have to jump off my boat, flop
| face-down on the concrete and reach down with the rope in my right hand
| passing it around the pole to my left hand while holding my boat against
| the wind with my ... errr... 3rd hand .... you get the picture!
|
| What would help a lot is some kind of a stick with a quick-release clamp
on
| the end that I could use to hold my rope to pass it around the pipe and
| then I could grab the end with a regular boat hook and pull it up to my
| hands and cleat it down or hold it.
|
| In other words, I need to somehow clip my looped rope onto the end of a
| stick, and pass it around a post down by the water.
|
| Has anyone ever found a gadget for this? Or located hardware I can use to
| build one myself?
|
| Fred W.
| Tug 44
Some while back, there was a post on this list
from a member about a "Get Line Over Piling Device"
(GLOP-D). I can't seem to find it on this computer
at work, but SOMEBODY on the list should remember
who it was. It is on a list member's website, but
I can't remember who it was. If I recall, it was
developed specifically for canal/lock work
D C "Mac" Macdonald
m/v Another Adventure
Grand Lake in Oklahoma
USPS, USCGAux, AGLCA-217
-- "Ron Rogers" <rcrogers6@kennett.net> wrote:
From: "Ron Rogers" <rcrogers6@kennett.net>
To: "fred" <fred@controlparts.com>, <great-loop@lists.samurai.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:04:17 -0500
Subject: Re: GL: rope-gripper stick for locking
First, there is a device for picking up moorings that
approximates your need. Since I am facing the same
situation this Summer, I have questions to add. What
if you used a PVC pipe as a pole with a line through it
and attached and the end of the line was spliced onto
a large steel hook? The PVC pole would allow you to
reach the pipe pole or cable, but you only hook it and
place it under tension - no clip-on.
Would that work, at least downwind?
Ron Rogers
1985 Willard 40
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred" <fred@controlparts.com>
To: <great-loop@lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: GL: rope-gripper stick for locking
|I love the Erie Canal, but locking single-handed as I often do, can be
| quite a comedy of errors.
|
| Locking singlehanded with a tail wind absolutely requires I pass a cleated
| rope around a pipe or cable on the lock wall. These are generally sturdy
| enough to keep my boat from swinging in the wind too much.
|
| The problem is, the deck I stand on is often 3 or 4 feet above the top of
| the pipe or cable that I need to pass that rope around.
|
| In locks that have very low walls, I have to jump off my boat, flop
| face-down on the concrete and reach down with the rope in my right hand
| passing it around the pole to my left hand while holding my boat against
| the wind with my ... errr... 3rd hand .... you get the picture!
|
| What would help a lot is some kind of a stick with a quick-release clamp
on
| the end that I could use to hold my rope to pass it around the pipe and
| then I could grab the end with a regular boat hook and pull it up to my
| hands and cleat it down or hold it.
|
| In other words, I need to somehow clip my looped rope onto the end of a
| stick, and pass it around a post down by the water.
|
| Has anyone ever found a gadget for this? Or located hardware I can use to
| build one myself?
|
| Fred W.
| Tug 44
