I own a 93 Macgregor 26S, my wife has only one leg and was never very good on any marine tiller be it motor or sail small tiller movements are very hard for her so my problem was if I go forward to adjust anything forward of the cockpit I have to be tied in or run the risk of a hard adjustment to throw me overboard, on the boat she's a work in progress. So moving all lines back to the cockpit became a project. Our 30 years work for both of us.
How I did my rope drum:
I used 2 mountain bike brake rotors 2 hockey pucks for parts a small piece of aluminum tubing 6 stainless machine screws and nuts red locktite most of which have been in my toolbox for years. Hockey pucks made to fit into the small alu. pipe, pipe cut to fit on lower turnbuckle bolt. 14 inch PVC to protect the sail from the turnbuckle.
Tools required were a very cheap drill press garage sale $20 years ago owes me zip scrap drill bit from the junk drawer in the toolbox mark the hole locations on the hockey puck pieces in the pipe spend some time making sure the table and drill bit are 90 degrees if not it will wobble.
This is my first post here so not sure how this works for post size and how many post to upload pictures so until I figure this out
How I did my rope drum:
I used 2 mountain bike brake rotors 2 hockey pucks for parts a small piece of aluminum tubing 6 stainless machine screws and nuts red locktite most of which have been in my toolbox for years. Hockey pucks made to fit into the small alu. pipe, pipe cut to fit on lower turnbuckle bolt. 14 inch PVC to protect the sail from the turnbuckle.
Tools required were a very cheap drill press garage sale $20 years ago owes me zip scrap drill bit from the junk drawer in the toolbox mark the hole locations on the hockey puck pieces in the pipe spend some time making sure the table and drill bit are 90 degrees if not it will wobble.
This is my first post here so not sure how this works for post size and how many post to upload pictures so until I figure this out
