Mooring fairleads

[Mike2309]

Am i missing something here ? Why are the entry slots in the top so large, and mostly angled the same way as the rope lead ? Isn't that just asking for the rope to jump out? Those with the crossover horns are surely more secure in use and less likely to pick up stray ropes .

 

[Lakesailor]

If they are angled the same way as the rope lead they are fitted on the wrong sides.
I had a thread on this subject a while ago. The naming on the packaging was incorrect.
Port fairleads were called starboard and visa versa.

They should be fitted like this.

 

[Seajet]

This is a common problem.

Lakesailor is correct, open fairleads are usually 'handed' so yours may be on the wrong sides.

I use closed fairleads either side of the foredeck, and they don't seem a problem; unlike open fairleads where the lines can pull out on their own, particularly if the boat is alongside a wall going up and down with the tide.

The RNLI have really nifty fairleads which are usually in 'closed' mode but have an opening top; I'd love to have scaled down similar things.

 

[Giblets]

The RNLI have really nifty fairleads which are usually in 'closed' mode but have an opening top; I'd love to have scaled down similar things.

Yep, noticed those on the Yarmouth lifeboat during the "Didn't Quite Get To Poole" cruise.

 

[Mike2309]

If they are angled the same way as the rope lead they are fitted on the wrong sides.
I had a thread on this subject a while ago. The naming on the packaging was incorrect.
Port fairleads were called starboard and visa versa.

They should be fitted like this.

Yes, yours look fine , they have what I called crossover horns , and the chamfering inside looks to be fit for the rope to lead either way. Min e have an almost wide open mouth (angled forwards and outwards as fitted) and a chamfer inside running the same way.
Unfortunately I can't come up with a photograph at 2 minutes notice at 23:54 (How do you do that?)

 

[Mike2309]

If they are angled the same way as the rope lead they are fitted on the wrong sides.
I had a thread on this subject a while ago. The naming on the packaging was incorrect.
Port fairleads were called starboard and visa versa.

They should be fitted like this.

Yes, yours look fine , they have what I called crossover horns , and the chamfering inside looks to be fit for the rope to lead either way. Min e have an almost wide open mouth (angled forwards and outwards as fitted) and a chamfer inside running the same way.

 

[prv]

Mine have an almost wide open mouth (angled forwards and outwards as fitted) and a chamfer inside running the same way.

Ah - like these ones?

A common design, and always struck me as a bit rubbish in the stopping-the-rope-jumping-out department.

Unfortunately I can't come up with a photograph at 2 minutes notice at 23:54 (How do you do that?)

A certain facility with Google Image Search

Pete

 

[Mike2309]

Yes , those are the ones - useless little bar****ds !

 

[rob2]

There was a reference in the PBO sketchbook a while back with various suggestions for fitting a locking bridge piece across the top of the fairlead jaws...

Rob.

 

[oldbilbo]

I'd like to see those, if someone could kindly scan/post 'em.

 

[VicS]

Yes, yours look fine , they have what I called crossover horns , and the chamfering inside looks to be fit for the rope to lead either way. Min e have an almost wide open mouth (angled forwards and outwards as fitted) and a chamfer inside running the same way.
Unfortunately I can't come up with a photograph at 2 minutes notice at 23:54 (How do you do that?)

In pretty much the same way that I can come up with a picture of the incorrectly labelled fairlead that Lakesailor received when he first ordered the new one you see on the stbd side of his boat.

 

[fireball]

In pretty much the same way that I can come up with a picture of the incorrectly labelled fairlead that Lakesailor received when he first ordered the new one you see on the stbd side of his boat.

But that would be right if the cleat was forward of the fair lead - as is often the case at the stern.

 

[Lakesailor]

Doesn't say "Aft Starboard Fairlead" on the packaging, does it?

I sent it back and the supplier admitted it was ambiguously labelled and sent the correct fairlead.

 

[fireball]

Oh I agree - ambiguously labeled - but it isn't incorrect - its just not right!