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Here at Bruce Roberts International we offer four separate boom systems for our designs so as to match all tastes and pockets. |
| 1. Boom Kit for home assembly 2. Completely Fabricated Boom for Traditional Slab Reefing 3. Completely Fabricated Boom for SingleLine Reefing 4. In Boom Furler Reefing. |
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| Reefing Systems Tailored to Your
Needs The Second and
Third Options both utilise
Selden's new boom range which has been designed to give maximum versatility providing
rugged strength and seamanlike reefing systems for all our different designs and all
different types of sailors.
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LIGHT_DEEP_STIFF The boom extrusions are relatively deep in relation to their width. This allows a lighter extrusion with high resistance to vertical bending - a demand that has increased with the introduction of stiffer sailcloth's and more efficient kicking rods.
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| THE GOOSENECK The gooseneck fitting on the boom is the heart of all the boom systems and has been designed thereafter. It contains the sheaves for upper lines for "Single-Line Reefing", and also for lines to the reefing winch and cockpit. All lines can be held by rope stoppers or be led back to the cockpit. The rope stoppers are spring loaded in both their open and closed positions. Their specially rounded jaws hold the lines securely with minimum chafe. As a safety detail, every rope stopper is colour-coded to match the colour of its line. Large openings in the walls facilitate line replacement, inspection, and maintenance. |
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| The Second is TRADITIONAL SLAB REEFING A single and efficient reefing system. The reef cringe on the luff is hooked on to fixed hooks at the gooseneck. The leech is reefed down with a line running to a winch at the mast. Stoppers at the gooseneck allow the same winch to be used with any line on the boom. Lines not in use are kept clear of the winch by special fairleads. |
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SINGLE-LINE REEFING Ease off both halyards and kicking-strap and take home on the reefing line. You reef simple and safely with Single-Line Reefing by hauling in on one line only. A system of blocks inside the boom draws both luff and leech down to the boom. A 2:1 purchase in the system further eases reefing and improves sail shape when reefed. "Single-Line Reef" is highly suited to reefing from the cockpit. |
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| The Fourth Option is the Furling boom. For the builder with the big pocket this is the most advanced reefing boom on the market today. Made in Australia this boom has many advantages over other systems. This is a far cry from the k.i.s.s. principle but if you are after the ultimate in easy reefing and quality equipment then this is it.It is equipment like this which is allowing shorthanded sailers to continue into their eighties doing what they love and to still feel the salt wind wisp around their ears. |
For more information and quotes on any of the above systems please
email office@finelineboatplans.com
, fax 0741595421 or call 07 41595421
The Build Your Own Boom is the First. This is a standard mast section made
into a boom. This is the boom most often seen on cruising yachts. Many new yachts also opt
for this system, We can supply this section as a kit for home assembly, together with all
necessary inboard and outboard sheaves, mainsheet bail, boom vang lug, outhaul tackle,
etc, or whatever your particular design and indervidual needs are. It is all presented to
you complete with all components, with a clear anodised finish. just waiting for you to
assemble. There is no welding needed. What welding that has to be done is done before you
receive the section. All that is up to you is just to cut, drill, tap and screw using
common hand tools. 
