Anyone know who made this?

[tmac]

I saw an interesting single line traveler control device, and was wondering if anyone knows anything about it. Sorry for the poor photo, but it is the best I could get.  You crank the handle to move the traveler and flip that small lever to reverse the direction.  I've never seen one of these before, and thought it was kind of cool.
I know the handle is a Lewmar, but I contacted them, and they said the unit isn't theirs.

[LogoFreak]

Here you go
http://www.antal.it/eng/202_manual_ld_en

Harken makes one as well.

[waughoo]

The handle is interesting and unique as well.  It has a ratchet system in it like a mechanic's ratchet handle.  This allows it to drive in clockwise and ratchet in clockwise or vise versa.  I sought one out for my cabin top winches due to my dodger interfering with a full rotaction of the handle.  This allows me to maintain either the low speed high torque "speed" or the high speed low torque "speed" of the winch.

[tmac]

Thanks guys.  I figured at least one of the brain-trust here would know.  Any comments as to how effective they are?  Downsides?  Not really considering one, but ...

[LogoFreak]

For how much they are I'd say it's not worth it on our boats. If it was under $200 I'd probably install one on my boat. Looked into it a while ago.