TeakDecking Systems Reefing Hook - Designed for Caulk Removal Before Re-Caulking - Blade Width: 2.5mm, Overall Tool Length: 8.5in - Comfortable & Easy to Use

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Good weather never makes a great sailor, so reef early, reef often and take the longest leg with confidence, knowing that you have the tools you need to get your boat home safely. However, they certainly have their advantages and can be well executed in their design, installation, and use. Velocitek, a prominent name in sailing hardware, continues to lead in innovation with this year's release of the Prism 2. When you’re sailing downwind and the boat is not heeling, you may not notice at first that the wind is increasing. I'm always a little scared that these points will fail in a heavy breeze, but engineers with much greater intelligence than me put them there, so I tell myself I am being ridiculous.

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Extend the life of your fenders, and add style too Fender covers are designed to protect the hull of the boat while it is docked. The webbing arrangements which you refer to with the ss rings either end are known around here as reefing spectacles. Maybe it is different where a boat has a number of crew, but for us always just 2 of us that makes the job difficult to do by one alone whereas it can be done if everything is all together either at the mast (for Norwegian-Kiwi masochists) or in the cockpit (for Anglo-Yank wimps). This will allow the boom to move up or down dependent on where the reefing points are located on the mainsail. Well, each sailor may want to identify their personal preferences in balancing ease, safety, and effectiveness.

e. reefing to third reef instead of a Trysail on-board, can damage specific areas of the sail, damaging the smooth vertical representation that we design in the sail.

Barton Reefing Hook Gooseneck or Stemhead Fitting

Weight saving on the boom - The remote command lines used to activate or release the hook can be smaller in diameter as they only need to operate the hook.By Andrew Simpson A harebrained scheme to defraud an insurance company involves a sailboat, a cruise liner and an ancient aircraft. With the multitude of devices and apps which show weather patterns, wind speeds, and forecast predictions available today no sailor should be fully unprepared for the weather they are going to face. It is almost always easier to shake a reef out than to put one in — hence the saying “reef early and often. From cam cleats to the recently acquired 'Karverized' Pontos winches, Karver have a plethora of high-performance hardware and furling solutions.