My boat came with Lewmar 24s and no teak winch pads. I've been
planning to put them back on (they came with the old winches in a box
of stuff), but based on the Override thread maybe I'll reconsider.
Not having the winch pads we get lots of overrides, particularly with
the #1. My crew only uses 2 wraps ever, and then they just manhandle
the thing in--I'm waiting for the cleat to rip out of the deck...
I use blocks on standups as fairleads, and I tried to get them as low
as I could. If I could get them just a little lower, I'd probably be
OK. I'll probably just use large eye-straps or something as
fairleads.
In any case, no teak winch pads = overrides, just in case you were
wondering. But I never have trouble with the line hanging up on the
pads :)
Does anyone out there have the perfect setup?
