Description

ANTAL Low Friction Ring 20×14 mm | Simple, Strong & Versatile Line Handling
Category: Boats and equipment
Subcategory: Anchoring and mooring
Discover the ultimate solution for modern line management with the ANTAL Low Friction Ring 20×14 mm. Engineered for sailors who demand simplicity, strength, and reliability, this compact component represents a significant advancement in rigging technology. Its minimalist design eliminates moving parts, offering a lightweight, maintenance-free, and incredibly strong alternative to traditional blocks and pulleys. Ideal for a vast array of applications across your sailboat, from anchoring and mooring setups to performance-oriented rigging, this ring is designed to handle high static loads with exceptional efficiency.
The highly polished, curved surface ensures extremely low friction, allowing lines to run smoothly while minimizing chafe and wear. This feature is critical for maintaining the integrity of your ropes over time, especially in high-load situations. The absence of bearings, sheaves, or any mechanical components means there is nothing to break, corrode, or fail, providing unparalleled peace of mind whether you are cruising coastal waters or crossing oceans. Its simple, robust construction makes it a ´fit and forget´ piece of hardware that enhances the performance and safety of any sailing vessel.
Key Benefits and Features:
* Exceptional Strength-to-Weight Ratio: Delivers incredible load-bearing capacity in a feather-light and compact form factor, reducing overall weight aloft and improving your boat´s performance.
* Extremely Low Friction: The perfectly smooth, curved inner surface allows lines to run freely with minimal resistance, making adjustments easier and reducing wear on your ropes.
* Zero Maintenance: With no moving parts, this solid ring is impervious to sand, salt, and dirt. It requires no cleaning, lubrication, or servicing, ensuring constant readiness and reliability.
* Unmatched Versatility: Perfect for countless static load applications, including lazy jacks, cascading backstay tackles, barber haulers, fairleads, reefing lines, mast base organization, and custom anchoring or mooring solutions.
* Simple and Secure Installation: Easily spliced onto a line or lashed securely into place, providing a fixed and reliable point for guiding or deflecting ropes under heavy tension.
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A Legacy of Innovation
In 2008 Antal introduced the low friction ring to the market, a product that revolutionized the line-handling on sailboats.
In 2020 Antal introduces SectoRing, the spinning ring with a guiding cover, small in size and low in weight, the perfect solution for high loads where large and fast movements are not required.
SectoRing is also available without the Antal snap loop where it can be used in custom fastening applications (in that case the SWL depends on the strength of the fastening but must not exceed Antal values).
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The ANTAL Low Friction Ring is the go-to choice for sailors looking to optimize their rigging for efficiency, safety, and simplicity. Its elegant design belies its raw strength, making it an indispensable part of any modern rigging inventory. Upgrade your anchoring, mooring, and line handling systems today with this powerful and dependable hardware.
Technical Specifications
* Product Type: Rings
* Model: ANTAL Low Friction Ring 20×14 mm
* Outer Diameter (ØD): 20 mm
* Inner Diameter (Ød): 14 mm
* Safe Working Load (SWL): 2000 kg
* Breaking Load (BL): 4000 kg
* Max. Line Diameter: 8 mm
* Weight: 18 g