HOOKSHOT
GITHUB Wind Temple, not the boat
Hookshot in The Wind Waker
Searches that say 'hookshot on the boat' are describing the Grappling Hook. The Hookshot comes later, inside the Wind Temple.
Wind Temple chest
Zelda Wiki and the Fandom item page both put the Hookshot in the Wind Temple, in the chest after the Wizzrobe mini-boss. You use it with the Iron Boots to drag heavy objects, against Molgera, and again in Ganon's Tower. I do not have a published damage number, so that cell stays empty. The HD artwork on this page is the Zelda Wiki render of the Wind Waker HD model.
Nothing on either wiki describes firing the Hookshot from the King of Red Lions. Sea traversal uses the Grappling Hook, which you already own by then, to swing between posts and to pull yourself up some cliffs. If a video shows a chain over water early in the game, look at the item icon before you follow it into the Wind Temple.
Hookshot and Grappling Hook
The Grappling Hook is the rope you start using on the Great Sea. The Hookshot is the later dungeon item that grabs targets and, with the Iron Boots, hauls weight. They sit in different inventory slots. Mixing the names is why the boat question exists. I answer that question by splitting the tools, not by inventing a boat target for the Hookshot.
Questions
Can you use the Hookshot on the boat?
The wikis do not describe that. The sea tool is the Grappling Hook. The Hookshot is the Wind Temple item.
Where is the chest?
Wind Temple, after the Wizzrobe mini-boss. Two wiki pages agree.
Sources
| Source | Evidence status | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Zelda Wiki — Hookshot | 1 reference · shared publishers and mirrors count together | 2026-11-11 |
| Zelda Wiki — Wind Temple | 1 reference · shared publishers and mirrors count together | 2026-11-11 |
| Zelda Fandom — Hookshot | 1 reference · shared publishers and mirrors count together | 2026-11-11 |