Winch drums

Winch drums for Cambria’s main mast case. Picture by Nancy Brambleby

Third in our little flurry of ‘winter refit’ shots is this nice shot of the 4 new winch drums which will fit to our main mast case. They have been created by Master Shipwright Tim Goldsack and are of a very hard variety of oak with metal rings and fittings. Although these drums were present on the original Cambria we have been running without them. They are a very useful aid on any winching around or to do with the main rig, such as brailing up, tightening up the uphauls to the topmast spars, tightening up the forepeak and so on. They look very smart, I think you will agree.