Hi Mike,
I have the same boat and removed the twin rail foil this year and installed
the Seafurl-5 Model H253. I bought this Searfurl the year prior at a price
that I couldn't pass up and am very happy with it after using it for the
year. I installed myself and was able to use the existing rod f
Mike,
For whatever it is worth…
I have experience with two furlers: a Furlex and Harken A00. None of them was
installed over the rod stay. Both work(ed) fine, though, as Josh mentioned,
Furlex was probably better engineered.
One big issue I have with my current Harken is how it attaches to th
I have a 1989 era Harken. Not sure of the model. As best I can tell it is
original to the boat. It had the original -12 rod in it until the end of
2015 when I had the whole thing rebuilt and replaced the rod with -17.
IIRC the rod was only $200 of the rebuild cost. For almost 30 years of
marin
Profurl is expensive. I'm tearing up N31 and LC42 models due to water
ingress rusting the bearings. My c&c 38 has a harken mk2 which always
worked flawlessly. I had it on wire and I switched to -10 rod.
On Jan 13, 2017 11:19 PM, "Michael Jones via CnC-List" <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
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Mike,
My rigger buddy installs Harkens and services furlers. I've been helping
him for years. We've serviced/replaced many brands of furlers. In my
opinion, Harken is the best. Profurl is probably second but Harken is
clearly better.
I have had a Harken MKIII on Touche' since 1999. Never a p
I put a new furler on Enterprise a year ago. I had Harkens on my two previous
boats.
I went with Pro furler on Enterprise. I got a new head sail at the same time
and the sail loft is a Pro furler dealer. My thinking was they would do it all
and ensure the sail worked with the furler.
they did a
