Sadler 34 Genoa Cars

[DavidBolger]

Hi,
I was out sailing last week and the arch on the port side genoa car where the shackle on the block is attachs broke through. On inspection, there was a considerable amount of wear on the metal arch. There is also similar wear on the starboard side genoa car so I will have to replace the two.

Questions are
Does anyone know where I can source the original cars (these are the ones where a shackle attaches a No 2 Lewmar block to a metal arch on the front end of the block. They are held upright by a large spring wrapped around the shackle.)
If I need to get a different car, what is the track dimension. (I will measure it myself but I wanted to check if there were different types of track).
If I need to get a new type, what one would people recommend and what level of breaking strain would they recommend?

I posteed this on the Sadlers website also. All help gratefully received.

regards

David



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[Talbot]

to get new car dimensions, you need three measurements, width of track, depth of the side flange of the T, and diameter of the hole in the track for the stop. I had to replace a genoa car designed in a similar manner to yours (but made by Main), and was eventually able to get the correct width of track and diameter of the hole. The depth of the T was larger, thus initially my new cars would not fit, but Barton provided new inserts which fitted the old track and enabled the new cars to be used.

A word of caution. My new cars were lower profile than their predecessors, and ended up putting a lot more strain on the turning block cause the angle was wrong. This eventually caused the turning block to distort (just possibly cause I had too much sail up in the Round the Island!), and I had to redesign the strongback that held the turning block.

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