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Any of you sailing smarties care to tell me what the fitting is called in the picture below? The traveller is attached to it below the boom via the shackle.
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Any of you sailing smarties care to tell me what the fitting is called in the picture below? The traveller is attached to it below the boom via the shackle.
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I don’t know if this is the correct name for it but I’d just call it the mainsheet bracket. It looks like a padeye type of bracket: http://www.mmsacc-stainless.com/html/pad_eye.htm
I’ve had trouble tracking down the exact bracket from the Harken, etc websites. Is there a label on your boom or track? The nearest I can find is here: http://www.sparcraft.com/uk/main.asp?url=http://www.sparcraft.com/uk/products/booms/default.asp&f=2,78,,, If you scroll to the very bottom of the page and then click on the picture alongside the “Boom brackets” section, it will open up an image that seems to show a similar type of bracket to the one you have. Might be worth dropping them an email and attach the pic from this post.
I posted the same pic on Facebook, and then tagged all of my sailing “friends” to see what they though as well. I think the consensus is that it is called a padeye, although one which slides in the boom track as opposed to being screwed down. Thanks for playing:)
Just a note to say calling me green with envy would be like calling Kermit a frog. We hope to be joining you soon where the water meets the land.
Pooty
Sounds great. The more the merrier!!!
It is a Cunningham.
Thanks for playing Eric, but it’s not a Cunningham. 🙂 It is, as I mentioned, the traveller (other end of the boom). But, what I really wanted to know is if there was a specific name for the pad-eye on the bottom of the boom.