Abstract: A bracket for being mounted to a flotation device such as a drum is manufactured as a single piece which includes spaced apart parallel sidewalls having a curved bottom edge for mating with the curvature of the periphery of a floating drum and has end walls spanning between the sidewalls at opposite ends of the sidewalls and a top wall opposite of the lower curved edges of the sidewalls in which top wall there is a central opening on opposite sides of which there are flat load bearing surfaces. A clamping device having the properties of a turnbuckle connects between the ends of strap which wraps around the drum and hooks to opposite ends of the turnbuckle so that turning of the body of the turnbuckle holds the ends of the strap together to effect frictional gripping of the bracket to the drum.