Shaun, winchers certainly aren't the equal of self tailers, but they can be
helpful.
And Jim, the only one I've ever had was one I installed on the main halyard
winch on the mast. Mounted on a vertical plane, a partial wrap could easily
batted off every few turns of the handle. It worked much better than with
out as I could winch without pausing to grap higher on the tail. This could
be different with the winch on deck winching a long tail.

"CAH" wrote in message
oups.com...
The blue wincher rings as far as I know not worth the try.

www.winches.dk


Garland Gray II wrote:
Andersen makes a 9.5:1.
Less than that and you are probably talking an ungeared winch.
Perhaps you could use a "Wincher", the blue rubber ring.

"Shaun Van Poecke" wrote in message
...
has anyone heard of low ratio (say, 6:1) self tailing winches? I
really
dont need a high powered wicnh for my boat, but it sure would be nice
to
have a couple of self tailers as well as a couple of standards to make
life a bit easier as i mostly sail solo. The offerings ive seen from
the
big companies only have self tailers in 16:1 and better and start at
around AU$600

Thanks,
Shaun