By using the latest materials and design technology developed in the racing arena, Lewmar has completely transformed the sailing experience. Each hardware component is designed to work in perfect harmony with rope action, placing sail control squarely in your fingertips. The result? Smooth yet powerful deck-to-sail movement that you can feel confident about.

Lewmar's Hardware Technical Reference Guide provides you with valuable insight into: Purchase systems; Winch output loads; Size/load blocks; Car efficiency. We also provide examples of purchase systems using Lewmar hardware range for a whide range of application from Mainsheet systems to asymmetric spinnaker. - Click here to download the Technical Reference Guide.

Blocks

Blocks range in size from 30mm to 250mm and come in various forms including single and becket, triples, doubles, footblocks etc. Two types of block are available, one with roller bearings for rapid sheet trim and the other with plain bearings for high static loads.

Travellers

• Broad range- suitable for craft from 6m (20ft)- 30m (100ft)
• Re-circulating ball bearing cars and slide rod car options
• Short cars for radiused tracks and long cars for compact multipleblock attachment
• 2 styles of car links for short and standard length cars
• Modular system creates multiple options and creative solutions
• Ball bearing control line options on size 2 and 3
• Lock-on alloy cam plate extrusions on size 1 and 2 end stops
• Cam cleat on car available in size 1 and 2
• Surface mounted end stops eliminate leakage
• Mainsheet kits provide a complete system in one package

Track

Wide range of tracks available in different shape and length.

Rope Clutches

Lewmar has redefined rope clutch technology with a variable geometry handle and unique grip pattern of dominos that prevents rope fray. This revolutionary new system has been independently tested time and again and has won awards for its innovative framework. The clutch was a spin-off of slightly earlier sheet stoppers and line-locking devices, most of which were sensations that later proved to be very poor or even dangerous when measured against the Lewmar clutch. Many of our competitors clutches are clutches only when hauling in a line. Easing the line under a heavy load is out of the question. Snapping open a clutch under 250kg of pressure may have led to the sailors, having slightly more fun at the windward mark than they had planned.

The word clutch is often misused, in the opinion of Lewmar. A clutch can be many things including a brood of chicks, a ladys handbag, or the manner in which you hold something tightly to your breast. As used by an engineer, a clutch is a reliable holding device with designed-in slippage controlled with a brake foot pedal or lever.

When choosing a clutch for a given task, its best to select the size with an upper rope range the size of the line to be belayed. That provides the least slippage and best holding, even though it might not be the best for line abrasion.

In the course of rope clutch development, the cam was given teeth, and that was the problem as they abraded line very badly. There was endless tinkering with the cam teeth, in order to reduce the wear on expensive halyards.

The base plates on which the cams squashed the line evolved, too, from just smooth, to scored, knurled, or serrated (more teeth and more abrasion), then shaped, all in an effort to increase holding power and reduce abrasion.

Along the way, a few makers eschewed the cam and tried two plates, forced together by wedges but that approach got rather complicated.

For small clutches, all but one maker Lewmar stuck with the simple cam. Lewmars solution to the vexing problem of finding a way to release a line under load without putting the line on a winch to relieve the strain on the clutch cam, a true clutch!

Lewmars clutch was a different way of looking at the line holding problem, a new idea for a rope clutch. Like nothing else in the market place, the non-cam clutch has a series of in-line, parallel rings hinged at the base. A line is run through the rings and then the rings are tilted with a single lever connecting the rings. When tilted, the rings force the line to snake through them, creating friction to hold the line securely. When the rings are allowed to resume their former configuration, the line straightens and can be eased, without alarm if done gradually. Because the rings are smooth, theres little abrasion. Lewmar makes two models the D1 (small) and D2 (large).

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Cleats

Organisers

Wide range of organisers: Ocean, Synchro and racing range.
All organisers have space to pass 2 lines between each sheave.