We are set up without the teak pads, but with pad eyes leading into the winch and we virtually never get overrides. I think the only time we've gotten overrides is when the sheet was accidentally not run through the pad eye, which just shows that they are serving their purpose.

Cheers

Dan

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>>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...

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>>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.

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>>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 :)

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>>Does anyone out there have the perfect setup?

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