Isn't there a mooring ball hook that you can make and/or buy?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Lynch <[email protected]>
>Sent: Feb 1, 2011 9:42 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Liveaboard] Picking up mooring
>
>I'm about to venture off into an area I'm not familiar with.  I'm going 
>to single hand the boat down to mid-florida and probably have to pick up 
>a mooring without benefit of a first mate.  I've done it before alone 
>but that was with a much smaller boat a lot closer to the water and I 
>was considerably quicker in my youth.  Any suggestions as to how to 
>pickup a mooring from 4' above the water single handed?  I'm thinking 
>about bringing the mooring along side with a long line from the bow, but 
>it's tricky getting a knot in the line or a line through the loop and 
>then getting back to the bow.  How does anyone do that?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
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