Unifiber downhaul winch

Why use a Unifiber winch

  1. The winch can be used with all europin compatible mast extensions (for US pin system an adapter is available).
    • for normal extensions you use the hole which is perpendicular to axle 
    • for example a Streamlined extension you will use the whole which is angular related to the axle.

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      Regular extensions

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      Streamlined extensions

  2. Little physical strenghth is required, even for sails which require a tremendous amount of downhaul. There are a lot of winches available on the market which use 12-15mm or larger diameters. Because the diameter of the Unifiber winch is only 10mm it is lighter to use. It is also possible for woman to trim a racesail on their own.
  3. The possibility to adjust downhaul tension per mm!
  4. The axle has sufficient length in order to downhaul the sail in one effort.
  5. When it is very windy it is easy to give an additional cm of downhaul with little effort.
  6. Very IMPORTANT, the Unifiber winch is very compact which means that leverage forces on the mast extension are reduced to a minimum. A lot of downhaul devices are causing damge to the mast extension.

 

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