Identity of old jib furler.

[Tokita]

Hi. I have recently bought an early Halmatic 30 with a roller furling jib. It is not marked up in any way but is odd in that the jib halliard runs up the outside of the aluminium foil, through a bronze sheeve at the top (which rotates with the foil) before returning to the base of the foil where it hooks on. I presume a handy Billy is used to get tension in the jib luff before hooking the halliard on. The top swivel is stainless steel and has a 6mm threaded hole in the side, very near the top. This has nothing in it and I believe it was for a grease nipple. Can anyone identify the system and confirm my thoughts on the 6mm hole. Thank you. Tokita.

 

[marina95]

This sounds like a similar system to the Alado. A very simple system without the complexity of upper swivels. Manual can be found here....

http://www.aladous.com/manualdata.htm

 

[wilkinsonsails]

Some older Rotostay and Colnbrook models were like that .Use a lanyard to tension the wire tail back to the eye on the drum.Also south coast rod rigging ,but these had a wire winch for the drum as well.
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[Tokita]

Brilliant. The Aldo is different but many thanks for the link I should have pointed out, the furling drum is stainless steel with a wire rope led aft to a Gibb wire winch.

 

[Tokita]

Just had another look and there is a corresponding hole threaded into furling drum. That and the one piece foil points towards it being a South Coast rod rigging model. Thank you for all your help.