schaefer

Hello All, I have a Schaefer traveller on my E38. The plastic sheaves on the cheek blocks on the traveller ends are in tough shape and the traveller itself could use some freshening. Are direct replacements available from Schaefer or other sources? Are traveller tracks "universal" to some...

At 19:18 -0700 5/4/05, Sven U. Grenander wrote: >Has anyone here taken a furler similar to this apart ? It was a bit nerveracking, but I managed to get it apart and back together again without losing any parts :-) Once I got it open I was amazed that it had worked well up until about a...

The furler setup is kind of funky. A prior owner apparently wanted to do it on the cheap and came up with a workable but non-optimal hank-on jib furler. It has worked great for furling the jib, but doesn't really work for reefing the headsail, no matter. The problem is that the bearings...