Anyone used the 'New-Style Double Reef Cam Conversion Kit for E-section: K-11443'

[Alctel]

Seen here
New-Style Double Reef Cam Conversion Kit for E-section: K-11443
http://www.rigrite.com/Spars/Kenyon_Spars/E_Gooseneck.php#Parts for E-Section Internal Gooseneck Assemblies

Looking at moving reef lines from the cockpit back to the mast, which means cleating off at the boom again. But I'm missing both the cam cleats on the boom - and this seems to fix that.
Anyone had any experience with this? Where do you all reef - at the mast or the cockpit?

 

[kappykaplan]

Can't speak to the Hunter set up, but I don't use the cam cleats on the boom. Had a bad experience once where the individual who took the reef failed to take a cleat hitch to the cleat. When the outer jacket on the line failed, we lost the reef at the worst possible time.

 

[Jim Legere]

I installed the kit you mention some years ago; never had any problems. Reefing at the mast is not an issue for me.

 

[rardiH36]

Alctel:

Probably easier to just buy the RigRite kit. But also see the below link for a forum thread back in 2011 where I described my DIY solution. Over the subsequent years, the arrangement has worked for me many orders of magnitude better than the OEM cam cleat set-up.

Further down in the thread a couple of posts by Blaise who describes his reefing setup.

In your RigRite link, I did take note the replacement sheaves they sell. I reused my old ones ... And pretty shot they are!

https://forums.sailboatowners.com/i...-clew-lines-to-run-freely.122553/#post-787856

 

[Alctel]

Alctel:

Probably easier to just buy the RigRite kit. But also see the below link for a forum thread back in 2011 where I described my DIY solution. Over the subsequent years, the arrangement has worked for me many orders of magnitude better than the OEM cam cleat set-up.

Further down in the thread a couple of posts by Blaise who describes his reefing setup.

In your RigRite link, I did take note the replacement sheaves they sell. I reused my old ones ... And pretty shot they are!

https://forums.sailboatowners.com/i...-clew-lines-to-run-freely.122553/#post-787856

Hah - I actually do that right now, I copied from your post a while back! I'm moving to mast reefing though probably, so want them cleated off at the boom (right now they are go through a clutch in the cockpit)