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Boat winches KNOL
"Mark" wrote in message
... It is possible to configure most large winches to work either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Ryk Why would you want to do this? America's Cup boats have right and left handed jib winches so the lead is perfect to the fairlead. My boat has jib winches of the same handedness and there's chafe on the port side coaming when trimming smaller jibsfixed by a second fairlead car aft. Right. No doubt, but 99.999% of boats would not do this. AC boats are highly specialized, and there are probably better solutions to chafe than confusing other sailors with winches that are non-standard. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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