mystery object found in Thames with magnet

[magnetman]

What's this item? It has a clamp a bit like an outboard motor and it would have swivelled like a rowlock.

 

I have to be careful as last time I posted a mystery object I got two warning points for lewdness. I still have those warning points

 

This:

Another photo

[spadefoot]

I'd say it was a lewdness-swivel.

[Jim Riley]

Swivel for small outboard, a seagull perhaps.

Or a nipple clamp?

[gazza]

Swivel for small outboard, a seagull perhaps.

Or a nipple clamp?

They would need to be bloody big nipples!

 

I'm intrigued as to the objects purpose.

 

It is not a seagull outboard bracket so you can rule that out

[bizzard]

A gunwale mounted catapult, minus elastic.

[cereal tiller]

I'd say it was a lewdness-swivel.

Maybe for a Stern oar ?

 

CT

[Jim Riley]

They would need to be bloody big nipples!

"like boilermakers rivets", or as glued onto Hudsons.

Maybe for a Stern oar ?

 

CT

Would that be Miss Strict.

[MtB]

Maybe for a Stern oar ?

 

CT

 

Otherwise known as a rudder?

[cereal tiller]

 

Otherwise known as a rudder?

Stern Oar rotated with a twisting action for Propulsion.

 

CT

[MtB]

Stern Oar rotated with a twisting action for Propulsion.

 

CT

 

 

I knew that really...

 

Can't understand how it can work though!

[bizzard]

Looks like it might have had a roller on it at one time, perhaps for leading a warp out over it. Whatever it is it was portable. Perhaps it was a lengthsmans portable toilet roll holder.

Edited August 19, 2016 by bizzard

[Guest]

Looks like a clamp for those motors with a drive shaft straight off the transom of a dinghy. Can't remember what they were called, but no right angle drive, just a shaft into the water at an angle, with a prop on the end.

Clamp is not like any Seagull I have seen.

[cereal tiller]

Looks like a clamp for those motors with a drive shaft straight off the transom of a dinghy. Can't remember what they were called, but no right angle drive, just a shaft into the water at an angle, with a prop on the end.

Clamp is not like any Seagull I have seen.

Those are usually described as "Longtail" outboards

 

CT

[bizzard]

Looks like a clamp for those motors with a drive shaft straight off the transom of a dinghy. Can't remember what they were called, but no right angle drive, just a shaft into the water at an angle, with a prop on the end.

Clamp is not like any Seagull I have seen.

Commonly used on boats in far Eastern and south American countries driven directly by a dirty great V8 petrol engine.

[magnetman]

Atco boatimpeller - maybe its the clamp from one of them

Stern Oar rotated with a twisting action for Propulsion.

 

CT

I wondered about that as well - but it isn't really rollock shaped

[mark99]

What's this item? It has a clamp a bit like an outboard motor and it would have swivelled like a rowlock.

 

I have to be careful as last time I posted a mystery object I got two warning points for lewdness. I still have those warning points

 

This:

Another photo

 

 

Reported for lewdness.

[magnetman]

I can do falling leaf sculling in my dinghy its a nice way to go along in a small boat but hard on the shoulder

[Guest]

I think it is something like that.

 

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by Guest

[MtB]

I can do falling leaf sculling in my dinghy its a nice way to go along in a small boat but hard on the shoulder

 

 

Yes but that involves the oar not being held in a pivot point I'd imagine.

 

Fix it in a swivelly stern bracket and I can't imagine how any forward motive force can be generated.

Edited August 19, 2016 by Mike the Boilerman

[cereal tiller]

 

 

Yes but that involves the oar not being held in a pivot point I'd imagine.

 

Fix it in a swivelly stern bracket and I can't imagine how any forward motive force can be generated.

Lashed in with rope works ,have used one like it

 

CT

[gazza]

"like boilermakers rivets", or as glued onto Hudsons.

 

Would that be Miss Strict.

I never got glued on rivets, anyone with half an ounce of brain power should be able to tell they are nought but decoration, yet people pay good money to have them stuck on.

 

Scammell wheel nuts was an often used comparison but sadly no longer relevant, you only see scammells at steam rally's and vintage transport shows.

[magnetman]

You either use a notch cut out of the transom or can use a rowlock in the centre. Single oar sculling relies on a leverage point at the stern either in the centre or to one side to counteract the weight of the person propelling it.

I think it is something like that.

 

 

That's it !!

I never got glued on rivets, anyone with half an ounce of brain power should be able to tell they are nought but decoration, yet people pay good money to have them stuck on.

 

Scammell wheel nuts was an often used comparison but sadly no longer relevant, you only see scammells at steam rally's and vintage transport shows.

When I was boating up in Cheshire in the early 00s I remember a lot of houses which seemed to have black paint added to give the impression of being timber framed buildings when they were not. The fake rivet thing seems similar.

[Guest]

Battery drill mounted on said clamp, long shaft with a prop on the end. Rechargeable outboard.

[gazza]

You either use a notch cut out of the transom or can use a rowlock in the centre. Single oar sculling relies on a leverage point at the stern either in the centre or to one side to counteract the weight of the person propelling it.

 

That's it !!

 

When I was boating up in Cheshire in the early 00s I remember a lot of houses which seemed to have black paint added to give the impression of being timber framed buildings when they were not. The fake rivet thing seems similar.

Mock Tudor. Best consigned to the bin along with pebble dash and that mental tiling Jack and Vera had on their house back in the 90's

 

A similar thing is Popular on estate cars line Skoda Octavia Scout and big Volvo and Audi estates. The chunky 4x4 look without being a proper 4x4.

[NB Lola]

Old style riggers, no doubt