Cruisers like a gadget with more than one function so this will appeal. It’s a stainless steel ring with lead ballast. Slide the chain through the aperture and it can…
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METS 2015: Barton Clear Wear Pads
Try as they might, sometimes lines are positioned where they can wear coamings. These carbon, Kevlar and now transparent polyurethane hard-wearing pads sticks onto your coaming or any other vulnerable…
METS 2015: VuPlex
OK so not exactly new but still flying under the radar in marine circles. If your last sail of the season involved peering through a stained, slightly translucent sprayhood window,…
METS 2015: Nub
The Nub is essentially a lower friction (17% less apparently), lighter (at 16g), stronger (4.5 ton breaking load) friction ring, in plastic instead of alloy. ‘Racing,’ you say. And you’d…
METS 2015: Lady’s Hook
Why Lady’s Hook? It’s usually the gent hogging the wheel leaving his long-suffering lady to do all the mooring athletics. This device, a 0.5kg, 90cm length of stainless steel with…
METS 2015: Nodus Factory Toggles
The self-locking adjustable T- toggles come in three varieties. T-Close K a toggle in a loop of Dyneema for creating adjustable soft shackles. T-bat K an easily adjustable loop suitable…
METS 2015: Flush Fitting Padeye
Available for only to the trade at the moment. The new Rapid Marine flush fitting padeye, is suitable for all tenders and PWC’s up to 500kg in weight, it’s dead…