[Rhodes22-list] Snap shackle size?

[Michael Meltzer]

you might find it easier just to use one line folded in half like a jib sheet

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kaynor" <mark@kaynor.org>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:35 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Snap shackle size?


> Julie and I have started messing around with Raven's cruising (asymmetric)
> spinnaker. We currently have some plastic snap shackles for the sheets, but
> they're too large to both fit through the clew at once - we have to put one
> through the clew, then connect the second to the first. We've decided to
> spring for stainless snap shackles, but I'm not sure what size to buy. We're
> looking at the West Marine catalog, page 983, Nicro standard bail, 3 5/8,
> part # 120899. Anyone got any thoughts, suggestions? Thanks.
> 
> Mark Kaynor
> 
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