old kemp boom sliders/reefing line attachments??

[niccapotamus]

I have an old kemp boom - old enough to have been designed for roller furling of the main. happily we now slab reef. it's on a sadler 32.

I'd like to add another couple of attachment points for reefing lines dangling from the channel in the bottom of the boom - what are these things called - sliders perhaps.

Anyway do we know what they are called (so I can google them) and anyone know of a source of them please?

thanks

 

[niccapotamus]

got there in the end - either bales or sliders. i think. get rigged provide some parts but they don't look right. I guess I could take one out and get something fabricated perhaps

 

[savageseadog]

Try Allspars in Plymouth. What's the boom dimensions?

 

[niccapotamus]

ta. I'll try and measure the slidytrack this weekend somehow

 

[vyv_cox]

Www.getrigged.co.uk took over historic Kemp parts from Atlantic Spars.

 

[niccapotamus]

thanks Vyv. bloody old sadlers !

 

[Tim O]

I have the same problem with my Kemp boom.....two of mine are seized in place and the third the screw has rusted out and it therefore cant be locked in place

 

[adamstjohn]

Am reading this, some 6 years after being published. I am looking for these too and struggling to find... anyone have?

 

[Stemar]

When I set up single line reefing on my old Snapdragon, I used these, riveted to the side of the boom

If you want something a bit meatier, these, maybe?