Wichard Composite rope guide

WICHARD Composite Rope Guide – High-Performance Deck Equipment

Optimize your deck layout and protect your running rigging with the WICHARD Composite Rope Guide. As a crucial piece of deck equipment for any modern sailboat, this guide is engineered to deliver superior performance, exceptional durability, and a clean, efficient setup. Designed by Wichard, a world leader in marine hardware, this product provides a simple yet highly effective solution for managing lines, reducing friction, and preventing chafe on your vessel.

Whether you are a competitive racer seeking every ounce of performance or a cruising sailor demanding reliability and longevity, these rope guides are an essential upgrade. They ensure that your control lines, furling lines, and other rigging run smoothly and freely, improving sail handling and reducing the effort required for adjustments.

Key Benefits:

* Exceptional Low-Friction Performance: The guide features an incredibly smooth, polished surface that dramatically reduces friction. This allows your ropes to run effortlessly, ensuring quick and responsive sail trim and maneuvers without snagging or binding.
* Ultimate Rope Protection: By providing a perfectly rounded and chafe-free path, these guides prevent premature wear and damage to your expensive lines. Extend the life of your running rigging and maintain its strength and integrity for longer.
* Feather-Light & Incredibly Strong: Engineered from an advanced, high-performance composite, these guides offer an outstanding strength-to-weight ratio. They add minimal weight to your deck while providing the robustness needed to handle significant loads, making them ideal for performance-oriented applications.
* Unmatched Durability: Built to withstand the harshest marine environments, the material offers complete immunity to corrosion from saltwater and is highly resistant to UV degradation and impact. It will not warp, crack, or discolour over time, ensuring long-lasting, maintenance-free service.
* Simple and Secure Installation: The design incorporates a straightforward two-screw fastening system, allowing for quick and easy mounting on any flat surface on your deck, mast, or boom. Its low profile ensures a neat and unobtrusive installation.

Main Features:

These versatile rope guides are distinguished by their modern, compact, and snag-free design, which helps maintain a clear and safe deck. The highly polished, rounded surfaces have no sharp edges, providing a safe passage for any line directed through them. A key feature is their stackable design; multiple guides can be installed side-by-side or stacked vertically to create a clean and organized bank for leading several lines, such as reefing lines or halyards, back to the cockpit. Their sleek aesthetic complements the look of any contemporary sailboat.

Ideal for a wide range of applications, including leading furling lines, reefing lines, lazy-jacks, dinghy davit lines, and other low-angle control lines where traditional blocks are unnecessary.

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Technical Specifications

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Model 1 / Small:
* Max. Rope Diameter: up to 10 mm
* Working Load (WL): 150 kg
* Breaking Load (BL): 400 kg
* Weight: 5 g
* Length (L): 45 mm
* Width (W): 16 mm
* Height (H): 10.5 mm
* Fixing Screw Diameter: 5 mm

Model 2 / Medium:
* Max. Rope Diameter: up to 12 mm
* Working Load (WL): 250 kg
* Breaking Load (BL): 700 kg
* Weight: 9 g
* Length (L): 55 mm
* Width (W): 18 mm
* Height (H): 12.5 mm
* Fixing Screw Diameter: 5 mm

Model 3 / Large:
* Max. Rope Diameter: up to 14 mm
* Working Load (WL): 350 kg
* Breaking Load (BL): 1000 kg
* Weight: 15 g
* Length (L): 65 mm
* Width (W): 20 mm
* Height (H): 14.5 mm
* Fixing Screw Diameter: 6 mm