Sailing Shackles, Snaps & Fittings

Whether you are a pro or boating for pleasure, you certainly know that sailing shackles and snaps help you get the most from your sailboat and time on the water. Today you are offered a great variety of sailing shackles available in a myriad of sizes, shapes, and working loads to meet different needs on guys, sheets, control lines, and a number of other onboard applications. So there is no problem to find the right product that fits your requirements.

When choosing a shackle, you should note its safe working load and compare it to your application. For example, when you are looking for sailing shackles for a main sail on a small boat, bar shackles are your best choice. Designed to be easy to open and stay safely closed when not purposely opened, these units are perfect for frequent use. Compared to bar shackles, bow ones feature a larger body, and that enables them to have more clearance allowing for more space for thimbles and splicing. D shackles will come in useful if you are looking for multipurpose units. They are perfect for a great number of applications.

For low load applications where the strength of a forged shackle isn’t needed, stamped unit is a good economical option. Snap shackles allow you to tie a small line to their pin, which lets you open them remotely. It’s extremely useful in retaining spinnaker halyards among a great number of other solutions. J Lock shackles can be utilized on genoa sheets and in some outhaul and halyard applications. Designed to allow for fast sheet and sail changes, these units can fit through most genoa blocks. But spool shackles are the most popular units for using with genoa sheets as they always remains easy to fasten and unfasten.

Clevis pin shackles are the other type of sailing shackles you may choose. These units are ideal for applications where the shackle is attached to a metal fitting as opposed to a line. For applications requiring a lot of clearance, long D shackles will be the finest choice. At BOATiD, you can find these and a variety of many other shackles manufactured with the highest quality standards and reliability in mind to meet all your requirements. In addition, here you are offered thousands of sailing fittings including D and O-rings, U-bolts, utility eye snaps, stainless-steel carabiners, fastpins, fastener kit, hooks, etc.