Source for these blocks ?

[Sven]

Maybe "block" isn't the right word for them ?

Anyway, on the port side they are stacked two high, one for the jib/genoa and the other for the furling line.

On the starboard side it is just one high and just has the genoa sheet. I am thinking of adding a second one on the starboard side to run an asymmetric spinnaker tack control line back to the cockpit but I don't know if they are still available ?

Thanks,

-Sven

 

[ted_reshetiloff]

These guys can be stacked and are available in 75 and 100mm sizes.


http://www.harkenstore.com/IMAGES/3131.jpg


ESP line is friendlier on the wallet and can probably match the load requirement you need too:

http://www.harkenstore.com/uniface.urd/scpdinw1.ShowProd?409Z56LC6V3BY

Or lose the shiny stainless:

http://www.harkenstore.com/uniface.urd/scpdinw1.ShowProd?409Z56LC6WF66

 

[Guy Stevens]

Garhauer has them also

You may also want to get a version with a stopper lever, it decreases the load on the block and allows the winch to be used for more than one line.

http://garhauermarine.com/catalog_process.cfm?cid=32

They are called foot blocks.

 

[Sven]

Thanks

Thanks for the links.

Those might also work as the spinnaker blocks, mounted all the way back on the cockpit coming with big backing plates.

Now I know what they are called too


-Sven

 

[Rhynie]

Sven,
There was a pair of the double stainless Scheaffer brand without the stoppers on Ebay a couple weeks back. I don't know if they sold or if you can do a backdated search. I have the double Scheaffer type with the stoppers on Rhyine and they are nice.

Glad I had heavy gear this past weekend, got into a thunderstorm with about 40 mph gusts on a race this weekend.