Found in the boat. I don't know what this is.

[miki000]

I just found this thing in the anchor locker, I am not sure what is it. Before I throw it away, I thought I would try here for answers. The V shaped timber thing, It has some sort of hinge at one end and some lashings at the other end. Looks like 90x45 (2x4) timber.


Also found these U shaped rods in a plastic box that says "emergency". Again, don't know what the use could be.

Thanks!!!

Miquel

[Island Time O25]

The V-shaped timber is probably for a winter cover support.

[chrisr]

and the U shaped threaded rod could be for attaching floorboards or similar to a spinnaker pole or similar, for emergency steering

or it could be somebodies idea for kinky fun...take your pick

cheers,

[John_Trusty]

Best advice I ever got in buying a used boat was not to throw anything away or make major changes in the first year. If those things can sail with you for a season, they may offer to help you when you learn the boat better. I have no idea what they are, but they fit somewhere perfectly so try them near where you found them.

[Timryl]

Perhaps a fender board?

[stormalong]

Can you ask the previous owner?

[miki000]

Thanks everyone for the answers. John, I've had the boat for some years now. There's were several things on the boat that ook me a while to figure out what their intended use was. I was doing a bit of clean out and could not find a good reason to keep these on board, unfortunately the previous owner is enjoying the afterlife, so can't ask Stormalong. A fender board could be Timly, thanks. I've got a couple already, so going in the bin I think.

Thanks everyone for your replies

[argonauta1]

Looks like a couple securing devices to fix a broken boom. Do they fit around your boom?

[SpiritofGlenans]

The U-shaped pieces are the classic solution to loss of steering. They are for attaching your spinnaker pole to a door or floor panel to form a temporary rudder. Does your heads door, or any of your floor panels have 13mm holes drilled in them?
The timber items appear to have lines attached to each leg which would function as steering control lines, and, are the other ends pierced through by another piece of threaded rod? Could be additional components of the emergency steering system, perhaps to somehow brace the spinnaker pole, to hold it in position. A Google/YouTube search for tips on how to construct such a system might yield some information, particularly if you can couch your search words inventively.
If this is an emergency steering arrangement it could prove useful if you were considering sailing near the Portuguese coast.

[SpiritofGlenans]

Originally Posted by SpiritofGlenans

The U-shaped pieces are the classic solution to loss of steering. They are for attaching your spinnaker pole to a door or floor panel to form a temporary rudder. Does your heads door, or any of your floor panels have 13mm holes drilled in them?
The timber items appear to have lines attached to each leg which would function as steering control lines, and, are the other ends pierced through by another piece of threaded rod? Could be additional components of the emergency steering system, perhaps to somehow brace the spinnaker pole, to hold it in position. A Google/YouTube search for tips on how to construct such a system might yield some information, particularly if you can couch your search words inventively.
If this is an emergency steering arrangement it could prove useful if you were considering sailing near the Portuguese coast.

P.S. A quick search produced this article with embedded video. In the video entitled "Steering a Boat without a Rudder", at 1min 44sec, you can see a spinnaker pole that appears to be lashed between two pieces of timber that protrude above the transom at just such an angle as to suggest that they resemble your wooden item, with the lashings attached to the pole, to each leg, and also to nearby stanchions At least that's what it looks like to me. perhaps a better monitor than mine would reveal more.

[Cheechako]

Originally Posted by miki000

I just found this thing in the anchor locker, I am not sure what is it. Before I throw it away, I thought I would try here for answers. The V shaped timber thing, It has some sort of hinge at one end and some lashings at the other end. Looks like 90x45 (2x4) timber.


Also found these U shaped rods in a plastic box that says "emergency". Again, don't know what the use could be.

Thanks!!!

Miquel

I dont know what those are for, BUT I do know that things I found in boats that I didn't recognize ended up having a clear purpose when I finally figured it out, sometimes years later!

[sinnerman]

As John Trusty said above. Never thrwo things out from a new boat till you've had it for a while.


When I first got my boat, there were these long aluminum slats in the main cabin tied to the side shelves.


I thought they were from some project the previous owner was working on and never finished. Almost threw them out.


When my sailing mentor came aboard to help me install the main sail (which was still in its sail bag), he stated: "This is a full batten sail. Where are the battens...."


Boy, am I glad I didn't throw away those mysterious aluminum slats...


Cheers..

[Fidsplice]

SpiritofGlenans is right. It’s the makings of an emergency tiller/ rudder.

Somewhere there is, or used to be, a suitable panel to be fitted by the U bolts. Tied to the stern with the hinged length then being a tiller. Wood is probably softened / rotted but the concept is good. Hinge is one of the weak links in this kind of scheme. Needs to be a boxed fitting like S80, J24 etc tiller. ( the hinge won’t take a lot of lateral load). People make great “ concept” devices but fail to test them real world. See if it works.

[MicHughV]

The photo's appear to indicate that this is a wooden boat and not a fiberglass boat.

While the spinnaker pole theory sounds good in theory, it is easy to check, ie, to see if indeed these things fit around the boat's spinnaker pole, place them around the pole, if you have one.
Mind you, a wood boat is likely to have a wood spinnaker pole and this may not be round in shape.

I would not throw them away at this point. They don't appear to be large enough that you can't find some locker space for them, giving you time to consider other options.

[s/v Jedi]

Dowsing rods for finding where to anchor safely.