Curry pin

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Curry pin
Curry clip (other side)

The curry clamp is a quick-to-use clamp for pods on sailing boats . It was named after Manfred Curry , a sailor, scientist and inventor with an American passport who was born in Munich in 1899. Curry apparently got to know the clamp in the 1920s as the "bulldog jam cleat" in the USA and made it known in Germany through numerous regatta successes .

The curry clamp consists of two rotatable plastic or metal jaws attached to parallel axes, between which a line can be clamped. The jaws (or “cams” ) are eccentrically shaped and are pressed against each other by springs. To strengthen the clamping effect, their contact surfaces have a serrated profile.

If a line is passed through the curry clamp, it can still be moved easily in the direction of the sailor because the torsion springs give way. However, if a pulling force - such as that of a sail - acts from the other direction, the jaws instantly clamp the line. For complete release, the line can be quickly pulled or thrown upwards out of the clamp.

Curry clips are often used in sailing to guide the pods, the position of which has to be changed often. They are unsuitable for permanent attachment of ropes and for guiding the sheet on larger sailing ships ; For such purposes, cleats and other more resilient fittings are usually available, on which one end of the line can be securely occupied.

Often a guide eyelet or a bracket attached to the curry clamp additionally secures the line, guides it and prevents it from getting out of reach when released from the clamp.

literature

  • Curry, Manfred: Regatta sailing. The aerodynamics of the sails . Zurich: Schweizer Druck- und Verlagshaus 5th edition, 1949. (Extended new edition of The Aerodynamics of Sailing and the Art of Regatta Sailing , published by Huber in 1925. A reprint of the 6th edition from 1960 was published by Delius Klasing, Bielefeld in 1994; ISBN 3-7688-0854-8 .)
  • German Hochseesportverband Hansa e. V. (Ed.): Seamanship. Yachting manual. (22nd edition) Bielefeld: Delius Klasing, 1991; ISBN 3-7688-0523-9 (pp. 57f.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Yachtsport Archive , accessed on October 23, 2011
  2. ↑ Also in regatta sailing. The aerodynamics of the sails. (1949), pp. 290f. Curry speaks of a "clamping device referred to by sailors as a <curry clamp>" without claiming their invention

Web links

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