The Best Way to Display Your Ship's Wheel in Your Home, Restaurant & Office

  One of the questions most asked from our customers throughout the years, is how to best display their ship's wheel in their home, seafood restaurant or professional office. Typically, one would drill screw holes through their wheel or hang them using large mounting hooks. Unfortunately, the first display idea damages the wheel. The second can work as long as you can find big enough hooks to fit the depth of the wheel. That also brings us to our resolve. About ten years ago, we approached a friend who was also a part-time blacksmith. We came up with the idea of large steel hooks, big enough in diameter to use for mounting ship's wheels, large ship's oars and other nautical, maritime, marine items that need a large hook for display.

A lifeboat oar is hung 
using a steel display
hook.

Our pair of large hand-forged wrought iron display hooks measures 4 inches high, 3.5 inches deep, with a 2.25 inch inside diameter. Black painted finish. They are sold as a pair. A single screw is needed for each hook. Make sure to mount them into wood or an vertical 2 X 4 to hold the weight.

Skipjack's steel display hooks for ship's
wheels, oars or other large hanging items.

                                                                                                                                

skipjack's custom made ship's wheel
display hub.

We then came up with a better mounting choice using our ship's wheel hub wall
mounting bracket. Welded steel ship's wheel mounting wall bracket with threaded rod and large fastening nut to secure the wheel on to the bracket. Four mounting holes on backplate. Minimum ship wheel hub opening 15/16" and larger. Accommodates maximum wheel thickness of 3-3/8".

Shown below are a few examples of ship's wheels mounted using our ship's wheel hub. This hub can also be used for mounting wagon wheels or other items with a center hole that you want to display. Interested? Here's the link to our ship's wheel category on  Skipjack's website.  

Antique ship's wheel displayed on a
wooden wall using the wheel hub.

A WWII era ship's wheel is displayed
on a helm station pedestal using a wheel hub.

Skipjack Nautical Wares and Marine Art Gallery is located in the quaint fishing village of Round Pond, Maine. They are open year round by appointment. You can schedule a visit by calling us at 207-219-0897 or by emailing us at www.skipjacknauticalwares.com. visit our website 24/7 at www.skipjacknauticalwares.com. Have a great day. Hope to see you soon!

Pair of Antique Cast Brass Fisherman Style Anchor Andirons

Today we are featuring a pair of antique sand-casted brass anchor fireplace andirons. These rare anchor fronts differ slightly due to casting imperfections during the sand casting process. These nautical fisherman style anchor andirons stand 16 inches tall and11 1/2 inches wide. 

The original shanks were gone, so we had short black-painted iron shanks custom made as replacements. They measure 7 inches deep from front of andiron to back of shank. (designed to stand in front of a fire gate or in a shallow firebox). Beautiful early nautical andirons that will certainly adorn your fireplace! 

Here's the link to these antique brass anchor andirons on Skipjack's website: 

Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Art Gallery is open year round by appointment. Give us a call at 207-219-0897 0r email us at skipjacknauticalwares@gmail.com for scheduling a visit.