This is a two piece pole that needs to slide thru a bracket on the boat to be able to stick it down to hold the boat. Center connection is not inset sufficiently so as to be the same diameter of rod and hangs up on retraction. Rod flexes just above connector and sometimes makes extraction very difficult, especially in the wind or tidal flow. Poorly made. A little bit better engineering needed.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]