If you’re a trailer-boater, there’s no doubt that you’ve had the experience of driving home with wet feet. Trying to hitch the winch strap to the boat while doing a trailer balance-beam routine will inevitably one day lead to KER-SPLASH! If, that is, you don’t have a Behr Claw. This gem has a magnetic head that securely cradles the winch hook, mounted on an extending 7’3” anodized aluminum pole. We got ahold of one to shoot a video, and while testing out we were utterly gobsmacked—why hadn’t anyone thought of this before?! Collapsed to 3’0” we easily stowed it under the truck seat, and after pulling the boat onto the trailer grabbed the Behr Claw, used the flip-locks to extend it out to full length, walked down the ramp to the water’s edge, magnetically grabbed the hook, and clipped it onto the boat in about 30 seconds flat.
Behr Claw also has a winch hook with a quick-release sling built-in, which allows you to release the hook from the boat just as easily whether you’re standing on the boat or on dry land. It can also be used for picking up and dropping moorings from deck-level without any leaning or stretching. You can get just the magnetic head (which is powder-coated aluminum and N52 magnets) and spin the 3/4-5 threads onto your own pole, you can get the head and pole, or you can get a complete head/quick-release/pole package. After trying it out for ourselves we say go for the full package; the pole is light and easy to extend or collapse, and with the quick-release head on the end you can clip and un-clip the winch hook quickly and easily from just about any position—without doing a balance beam act. Price: $32/$97/$148 to never drive home with wet feet again.
