Colligo Tech
The Components
Softie® Shackles
Colligo's Softie® shackles, as they're affectionately known around the shop, are ideal for dozens of applications around your boat. They can be used in place of traditional bronze sail hanks on synthetic headstays, to attach blocks to the rail or fittings to the boom. 'Softies' also make great shackle-replacements on running rigging applications like spin sheets and sail halyards and come in various sizes.
Furling Gear
Colligo Marine is known for its hardware that makes the best use of Colligo Dux. If you've got a newer wire rig, but still want to take advantage of Colligo's strong and simple rigging hardware, try retrofitting one of our continuous line furlers on an inner forestay, drifter or Code Zero. More and more racing and offshore sailing yachts are going the way of the Vendee racers and using furling rather than hanked-on headsail options. Those guys use it and love it, and we think you will too.
Line Guides
Great for applications from furling line leads to genoa car adjustments, wind vane self-steering control lines and more, our super-low-friction, detachable line guides can be bolted on deck, attached to a stanchion or placed on the mast to offer flexible solutions for line organization. Forged from solid aluminum and anodized for strength and hardness, our line-guides are rugged & durable - and they work!
Low-Friction Blocks
Colligo Marine specializes in - and indeed holds the patents for - many low-friction hardware items, and our blocks are some of the most useful and most popular. Our big-boat snatch blocks, for example, come with a huge 6,000-lb. breaking strength rating and are great for spinnaker sheets and guys, mainsail boom preventers and other applications where there is mostly a static load on a line. And they cost just a fraction of standard blocks.