The innovative WALDER Boom Brake: active safety at sea! Walder Technic Plaisance
To prevent accidental gibing, the WALDER boom brake controls the boom. When gibing, the boom swings gently to the other side, without human help.
The WALDER boom-brake has been in use for more than 30 years, and no other technology has been able to replace it, thanks to an efficient design based on simplicity and common sense. Since the boom-brake’s invention in 1976, our competitors have merely adopted the same friction principle, but with more elaborate (and less efficient) mechanisms, in order to avoid being an exact duplicate.
So, innovation?
Yes, because WALDER has been working with our engineers to update the boom-brake, maximizing its mechanical performance and thus significantly reducing its weight ,by about 30%, depending upon the model, giving it a smaller and more esthetic design.
The boom-brake has long been perceived to be necessary only for circumnavigators on the open ocean. These days when it’s unthinkable to start your car without buckling your seatbelt, or to purchase a car without an airbag, we still somehow think that getting knocked senseless by a sailboat’s boom is just unavoidable fate. Who has not experienced the boom sweeping the deck in an untimely and brutal manner during jibing (whether deliberately or not) with consequences ranging from expensive—a broken boom or mast—to catastrophic—a crew member injured or thrown overboard! This can happen anywhere, not just in the middle of the ocean…
WALDER’s new range of boom-brakes fits all sailboats ,mainsails up to 110m², with many possible adjustments, without leaving the cockpit.
Guaranteed for 10 years, and purchased worldwide more than 10,000 times, the WALDER Boom-Brake is an essential safety device that ensures the indispensable protection of your crew and equipment.
For USA www.boom-brake-walder.com
For UK www.walderweb.com
27 July 2010
