What is this for?

Is it the same as this?

https://www.myhanse.com/whats-this-for_topic11985.html

If so, nobody seems to know for sure

Hanse 418 #64 EmBer. Hamble, UK

Or could it be to clip in a safety line when working at the mast offshore?

SVZara wrote:

Just to be clear, this image shows the pad eye near the stanchion:

https://www.hanseyachtsag.com/hanse/fileadmin/_processed_/b/1/csm_HANSE_Self-tacking_Jib_94953e5dbd.jpg

From the picture where the padeye is right next to the guardrail - I would say it is for a Barberhaul to control an optional spinnaker (Not for a gennaker) - but they are perhaps a bit too close to the bow. Could also be for securing an inflatable dinghy stored on deck.

But the picture in https://www.myhanse.com/whats-this-for_topic11985.html is different. That looks like an option to lock the jib-wagon to one side avoiding violent movements of the car.

The old xx1 series Hanse had track-limiters / Pin-stops on the Jib-sheet track. With these it was possible to lock the track-wagon when reaching.

Edited by H8jer - 08 June 2021 at 08:20

Hanse 370#487 30HP 3-cabin

H8jer wrote:

SVZara wrote:

Just to be clear, this image shows the pad eye near the stanchion:

https://www.hanseyachtsag.com/hanse/fileadmin/_processed_/b/1/csm_HANSE_Self-tacking_Jib_94953e5dbd.jpg

From the picture where the padeye is right next to the guardrail - I would say it is for a Barberhaul to control an optional spinnaker (Not for a gennaker) - but they are perhaps a bit too close to the bow. Could also be for securing an inflatable dinghy stored on deck.

But the picture in https://www.myhanse.com/whats-this-for_topic11985.html is different. That looks like an option to lock the jib-wagon to one side avoiding violent movements of the car.

The old xx1 series Hanse had track-limiters / Pin-stops on the Jib-sheet track. With these it was possible to lock the track-wagon when reaching.

Hmm. Not sure it's for that. The picture probably doesn't show it but its about half teh way inboard from the end of the track so wouldnt really work for locking the car. Maybe Jon is right and it's for a harness point. They started appearing on all Hanse's about a year ago (not fitted to my 418 and no deck reinforcement in that position shown in the deck plan either)

Hanse 418 #64 EmBer. Hamble, UK

I just tie a second sheet to the self tacker jib clew and then run it back to the winch. I leave the self tacking jib sheet attached but it becomes a lazy / redundant sheet whilst using the barber hauler. Technically that isn’t a barber hauler of course, but I refer to it as such because in effect I am “barber hauling” the clew outboard

Hanse 418 #64 EmBer. Hamble, UK



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