Seldén has taken an even stronger grip on the deck hardware market by introducing a whole new range of manually operated winches with an ingenious function. They are reversible! This patented feature gives a new dimension to the concept of trimming.

 

The winches are self tailing with two gears. In forward they operate as usual, you start winching clock wise on the fast gear, shift down to low gear by rotating the winch handle anti-clock wise. The ingenious feature with the new Seldén winches is that you can trim the rope out by engaging reverse. The purpose made winch handle has a button which is depressed with your thumb to prepare the winch for reverse drive. The winch handle is rotated clock wise and the rope is eased out. The rope remains in the self tailing jaws at all times and a clever internal mechanism takes the load off the handle while the rope is being released.

For the cruising sailor, one handed operation means safety – no hands are ever close to the drum when easing out the rope. In rough conditions you can hold on with your free hand. Single handed sailors can steer and trim at the same time.

 

For the racing sailor trimming is easier and more accurate. The mainsheet trimmer can adjust the sheet one handed leaving the other hand free for the traveller. The genoa sheet can be eased smoothly and accurately. A  spinnaker guy can be eased while the trimmer also tensions the downhaul.

The Seldén Reversible winches will be available for during spring 2011 in sizes R30, R40, R46 and R52.