USER REVIEWS

Read what people are saying about the Dax OneTouch.

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Our Dax OneTouch is lightweight and easy to use. Its longer length allows easier grinding with less effort. It's far more efficient than having to mess with extracting the winch handle using both hands! 

• M & L Falk, S/V Kaholo, 1992 J40

After playing with the lock/unlock mechanism for a minute (clicking it is habit forming), I was convinced that Steiner had invented a breakthrough piece of sailing hardware. Like many sailors, I have been frustrated for years with the conventional locking mechanism that usually sticks and often needs two hands to operate. As a racing sailor, nothing is worse than sailing along on port tack with a sticky winch handle in the jibsheet winch, unable to cast off the sheet and tack!

My crew aboard our Express 37 Lora Ann loves the handle. In September 2006 we raced to Bermuda with the OneTouch handles, and in September 2006 we were one of only three boats to complete the Vineyard Race which included a 130 mile beat into 35-60 knot winds. In July 2007 I took two handles with me on the Transpac Race and left them as house gifts with the owner.

It is great to see a sailor with an idea dedicate so much time and effort and develop a truly useful piece of equipment that adds to the fun of sailing, racing performance and safety.

• Rich duMoulin

I own a 34 foot C&C (Scotch Flyer) and have been sailing longer than I care to admit. After an old handle went overboard, I bought a Dax OneTouch which has proven to be an excellent product. I race and cruise (mostly race) and the Dax OneTouch is such a favorite handle of both sailors and power boaters on my crew, I purchased a second.

The Dax One Touch winch handle is the best winch handle my crew and I have ever used.

We are active racers and have used many winch handles in the past including metal, floating and carbon handles. The Dax OneTouch's locking mechanism is much easier to release than any of the others and the handle is light but strong. It's an exceptional product.

I have recently purchased one from my rigger in Stamford, CT. Very nice, smooth and amazingly convenient.

I had already looked at the metal Lewmar version but I decided that the extra dimensions of the composite version felt better in my grip. This version also communicated a more reliable release my hand. There is no second guessing, you can trust it to stay in and to let go when called upon. A winner, finally a new mouse trap !!

• B. Nathanson

I am the owner of a Swan 36 and I recently purchased the Dax One Touch for use on my boat. I race and cruise regularly and am absolutely thrilled with the Dax handle.

I recently had the opportunity to test it in gusts over 44 knots and it performed flawlessly. I love the ease by which you can grab and release it from the winch without having to awkwardly fumble with thumb releases and the like - just squeeze the handle and out it comes. Why didn't someone think of this before now?