In about 38 years of using a boat hook, solo most of the time, I've yet to have the issues they claim I'll have...... Perhaps picking up 200 lobster buoys per day, using a boat hook, paid off and it's really not as easy as I make it seem...?? Sorry but if you lack the skill to guide the boat to the mooring and use a boat hook to pick up the mooring perhaps knitting would be a better hobby..... (wink) This is NOT complicated stuff that needs a "catcher snatcher"....