In Frogwatch writes:

On Jan 16, 12:02 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:17:41 -0800, "Capt. JG"
wrote:



They're better than nothing. If you have experience with self-tailers, you
won't call them great. Another data point... they degrade in the sun after a
few seasons.

Yes on both points. We installed them on our old 28 footer many
years ago and never found them to be very satisfactory. The main
problem is that they do not strip line off the top of the winch drum
the way a proper self tailer does. I'd never trust them to be a
substitute for a cleat for more than a few seconds.

somebody needs to put the line stripper IN THE WINCH HANDLE so that in
combination with the "Wincher" it is more like self tailing. However,
I speak from ignorance because I have never used a self tailing winch.

It will not work, because if a winch is a of two speed variety the
handle will turn to different direction of the different speeds. If
there is some gearbox, the handle will anyway go faster than the drum.

Then the stripper in a selftailing winch is stationary and the handle of
course is not stationary.

- Lauri Tarkkonen