David took a standard West Marine boathook and extended it with a 6-inch length of aluminum tubing, above. (The fasteners are under the rubber grip.) He epoxied a Forespar Lexan snap-on mast hook into the end of the tubing.

Adapting a boathook to do double duty Issue 93 : Nov/Dec 2013 To make my own whisker pole, I developed an alternative approach to that described by Clarence Jones (“An Inexpensive Whisker Pole,” May 2...