T&T: Fw: PFD for a boat hook.

[Larry N. Brown]

> Instead of ash, use a lighter wood such as Sitka Spruce, it will float in
> fresh water with a nice bronze hook, and still have plenty of strength. I
> have not yet broken the one a make in 1965...it is somewhat thinner now 
> from
> refinishing. I also have and old Merriman buoy hook that is too heavy to
> float, but it is on a leash.


    I bought the bronze hook from WM and made a handle out of a Home Depot 
clothes hangar dowel but I'm not very pleased with it. It's too short and 
the wood looks like soft pine. Where can one get a long, strong piece of, 
say, ash for the handle?

Regards,

Larry & Teri Brown
MV Cigano, 47' Prairie Sundeck
Still glued to the dock in Covington, LA