Marine Hardware – Stainless Steel AISI 316 Carabiners

Marine hardware – In the previous post we talked in detail about the technical characteristics of the carabiners. Besides a hints to their history and their areas of application. Now, we are specifically talking about different types in this post.

What type of AISI 316 carabiners?

The carabiner form changes according to their use.

Here are some types:

Straight gate Carabiners (connectors)
- Classic pear-shape
- Easily attachable and opening
- Useful to ensure: climbing harness, ropes on guardrails or rings of rubber dinghies etc

Straight gate Carabiners (Connectors) with “no snagging” closure (click here – art. 8001)
- Made in Italy
- Does not create catch and will never break the rope when it is released

Straight gate Carabiners (Connectors) with symmetric classicale shape (click here – art. 8249)
- Cheaper

Swivel eye snap hooks
- To restrict the movement of bodies engaged (e.g. ropes, shackles, turnbuckles, terminals etc..)

Straight gate Carabiners (connectors) with screw sleeve
- The ferrule prevents accidental opening

Straight gate Carabiners (connectors) with side opening
- To increase the width of the passage

Straight gate Carabiners (connectors) with asymmetric shape
- That allows the connection of multiple items

Other types..

Spring gate snap hook
- Fast coupling and uncoupling

Jaw swivel snap shackle, quick release
- For halliard² or spinnaker¹
- With quick release
- It completely opens to instantly release the stopped rope

Waterski-Hook, quick release
- It allows the motorboat pilot to drop the waterskier

Swivel eye snap hooks
- Snap-open (or piston)
- Used for diving

Swivel Eye Bolt Snaps
- For attaching the rings to “D” of the BCD³

Double-snaphook (click here – art. 8416)

¹A spinnaker is a special type of sail that is designed specifically for sailing off the wind from a reaching course to a downwind, i.e. with the wind 90°–180° off bow.

²In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, a flag or a yard.

³A buoyancy compensator also called a buoyancy control device, BC, BCD, stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or ABLJ depending on design, is a piece of diving equipment containing a bladder which is worn by divers to establish neutral buoyancy underwater and positive buoyancy on the surface, when needed.