Re: Helyar roller reefing

Posted by Grldtnr on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Helyar-roller-reefing-tp4030760p4030768.html

This is interest to me, I have long thought about doing this to my Dabber,she has a Wykham-martin fitting at the moment she did have the Barton furling gear when I bought her.

Is this kit essentially a length of conduit pipe with drum and furler up top ,or is it more engineered than that?
Thought about bodging  a length of utilities pipe,that I have stashed as might be handy item ,but getting it straight might be a struggle ,then I need tof
 Fashion a slot, wonder if electric conduit could be used , be easier to cut with a Stanley blade in a jig, then slide over the luff of sail.

Any other Bodger's out there, or are all HBBR herberts consummate Bodger's?

Gerald.