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Here are some pictures of the boat hook we have here in Moscow. Would appreciate your comments on whether it might be the correct hook. The handle is 195 cm long and the diameter of the handle is 3.2 cm at 50cm from the pointed end. The ball on the end of the handle is 5.5cm long and 3.3 cm in diameter. at 20 cm from the wooden end the diameter of the handle is 2.7cm. There is also a picture of the owner of the hook and an early gpa in Moscow, Nikolai Borodin. He is the director of our small museum of lend lease. You can see Marshall Rokosovski's jeep and a wellbike he recently found.

Hello Carl,

Thanks for posting these great photos and passing on the dimensions of the boat hook. Unfortunately I'don't have a boat hook with my GPA, so I can't tell you if this one is the rigt one. But it looks great to me.

I also like the photo of the museum, it is a nice collection :!:

Carl, it seems most than correct to me.

It will be great if you will be able to manage some repros from this one ...

I will for sure go for one.

Mithril, great idea about the repro

Karl, I would go for one. I would also love the repro (or original) of rear end bracket for the pole (I have the front bracket).

Cheers

Jerome

My son Michael, who is facile in matters of this kind, has agreed to help prepare drawings from which a good casting model could be made. This is what he wrote me:

I need a photograph that's perfectly top-down, so there's no foreshortening. It would help if the hook wasn't resting on the wood, but instead lifted so the hook portion of the object was pointing out parallel to the wood.

New measurements off the photograph would be helpful too. Especially the distance from the tip at with the angle of the shaft changes, and the diameter at that distance.


Obviously, if someone had an original and was prepared to lend it for the purpose of copying, that would be the best of all

Regards,

Olasov

PS My restoration is moving along quite nicely. Stay tuned!

I spoke with Dave Johnson of Empire Motors of El Paso, Texas. His company does a lot of small quantity castings. He quoted me the following prices:

6 units at $250.00/each
15 units at $200.00/each
20 units at $150.00/each

Dave said that he could work from Carl's photographs, but that if Carl could talk the Moscow museum into letting him take a half-side impression using bondo and hardener and oil or butter to keep the mold from sticking (and tell him what the three-digit number is, that seems to be 273), he could do a perfect job.

Let me know if you're interested in acquiring one or more units, and then I'll be able to advance a specific proposal.

Olasov
GPA3936

I'm in at 150... so hopefully we can make that number

Tony

I will have to pass on it
Sorry

Jerome

I will take one.

Folks:

No problem to make an impression of the hook. But I need you to send me the materials and instructions.