There are at least 3 or 4 commercial and several more homegrown devices to accomplish getting a line on an errant piling. (We know that none of us or our deck hands ever miss one that is standing still.)

Picture this:

A standard telescoping boat hook. Extend only the outer length. This should be about 2.5 ft. long. That is between the end and the first extension point. Get two ss hose clamps that are long enough to be tightened on the pole but , this is the important part , leave about 3 inches of the clamp free.

One is placed right at the end of the pole just short of the end fitting, and the other just before the extension joint. This provides two "hooks" onto which your dock line eye is placed. The two clamps will be about 5 ft. apart as stated. I then used yellow electrical tape on the "hook" part of the clamps to give it a smooth finish.

This pole is stored on the cabin side. We also have regular boat hooks over each pilot house door and one in the cockpit.

I did mention that the eyes in your dock lines should be Four feet long didn't I ? It makes corralling that bucking piling much , much easier. Learned the secret of the four foot eye fr. an old commercial boat captain.

I digress. Anyway I made a GLOP-D for THE WIFE and she really likes it

CCC

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