the boat i am on now is about four years old. outside of the harken parts that i mentioned, the boat is rigged with lewmar and ronstan.
<br> i have been in touch with the local harken guys and they gladly replaced the gear. however, it only failled later. i have up-sized stuff, only to have that come apart as well. replacing that stuff with lewmar or ronstan stuff, of the same size, fixed the problem.<br><br>