My roller furling runs outside the stanchions. I have small blocks on the toe rail that lead from the pushpit to the pulpit and then into the furler drum. Works fine. See the photo for the details.

 

All i see is a big white boat....
that's better than mine.

How about some part numbers of these blocks that take compression force? Or just manufacturer. I can look it up.
thx,
gh

 

All i see is a big white boat....
that's better than mine.

How about some part numbers of these blocks that take compression force? Or just manufacturer. I can look it up.
thx,
gh

If you look at the port toerail and follow the blue line, you can see the blocks shackled to the rail. They are pretty small, only about 1" across.

 

Harken makes some special blocks that run the furling line outside of the stanchion. Check their website.

 

You can use this type of block to run the furling line outside the stanchions. See this post.

 

What Dog

What Dog said the Harken kit is AWESOME!!!!

 

Thanks for the great info and the link to the previous post.
I will definitely be using one of these.

SD, do you know if harken has improved their design?
gh

 

The one pictured is a pretty good design...and fairly new... the Schaefer ones are ankle biters... and not using them will make you much happier and leave you needing fewer bandages...

 

Schaefer makes one too.

Schaefer Marine - Jib Furling

 

Thanks patrick, now I see them.
I was looking on the stancheons before, not the toe rail.
gh

 

Ours like Patricks are on the port toerail. The are out of the way and pull in furling line on puts no pressure on the stantions that way.

Dave

 

SD, why do you say the schaefer ones are ankle biters?
Are you talking about the ones that encircle the stancheon?

I also heard that the gerhauer design used to be like the scheafer design with one sheeve. Now it's like the harken with two. Can anyone confirm this?

thx,
gh

 

No, I'm talking about the ones that look like this:

IMHO, they're ankle biters since if you walk too close to the stanchion base, they'll clip you right at the ankles pretty hard.

 

Ok, now I understand.
thx.

 

Ok, now I have another problem with my plan and need some advice.

I was at the boat on sunday and looking at my stancheons to figure out how to run the line. Well, between the two midship stancheons is right where all my shrouds attach. Right to the toe rail area on the edge of the boat.

I still want to run the line outside, but now it seems like I have to put something to bump the line outwards further on these two stancheons to miss going straight through the shrouds.

Thx,
gh