Harken Micro Forkhead Block

HARKEN Micro Forkhead Block - Lightweight, High-Strength Pulley for Precision Control

Elevate the performance of your sailing vessel with the HARKEN Micro Forkhead Block, a pinnacle of engineering in marine fitting equipment. Designed for sailors who demand precision, reliability, and efficiency, this compact and lightweight block is an essential component for optimizing your boat´s control systems. Its low-friction design ensures that lines run smoothly and freely with minimal effort, allowing for immediate and accurate adjustments to sails and rigging, even under load. Whether you are racing a dinghy, cruising on a keelboat, or harnessing the wind on a sailboard, this block delivers the high-performance you expect from the Harken brand.

Key Benefits and Features:

The primary advantage of the Micro Forkhead Block lies in its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio. Engineered to be incredibly light, it reduces overall rigging weight, which is critical for performance-oriented sailboats and sailboards where every gram counts. Despite its small footprint, it boasts an impressive working load capacity, making it a robust and dependable choice for a wide variety of applications. The forkhead design provides a secure and fixed attachment point, preventing the block from twisting and ensuring that your lines are always perfectly aligned for maximum efficiency. This makes it an ideal solution for creating clean, effective, and strong purchase systems.

These versatile Pulleys are a cornerstone of high-performance rigging setups. They are perfect for creating systems that require precise and easy adjustment, such as vangs, outhauls, cunnhinghams, and traveler controls. On larger boats, they serve brilliantly for lightly loaded control lines like lead adjusters, furling lines, or trapeze systems. The smooth-running sheave, a hallmark of Harken quality, drastically reduces the friction that can slow down maneuvers, giving you a competitive edge when trimming sails for speed and control. Installation is straightforward, allowing you to upgrade your boat´s hardware and experience an immediate improvement in handling and responsiveness.

Ideal Applications:
- Sailboards and Smaller Dinghies: Perfect as a primary component for control systems where space and weight are at a premium.
- Boats of All Sizes: Excellently suited for lightly loaded control lines, providing smooth operation and reliability where needed most.

Technical Specifications:
- Sheave Ø (mm): 22 mm
- Length (mm): 42 mm
- Weight (g): 16 g
- Maximum line Ø (mm): 6 mm
- Maximum working load (kg): 91 kg
- Breaking load (kg): 544 kg