[Rhodes22-list] Thank goodness for 9 stays

[Bob Weber]

Rick, I had the exact same thing happen while under motor.  I had two young 
kids aboard and their dad who knew just enough to steer the boat while under 
power.  I was in a canal with 5 foot swell comming straight at me.  When I 
got to the end I went had my crew point the boat into the wind and I went 
forward.  I used one hand to hold on to the bucking deck another to hold the 
forestay in place and a third to tread the now bent pin thru the hole.  
after 10 trys I secured the furler to the bow pulpit and got back to the 
dock.  I threw the quick release clevis pin away.  Any one out there with 
that quick release pin take note - it can happen.  Bob



From: sloopblueheron at isp.com
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Thank goodness for 9 stays
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 15:59:13 -0000 (GMT)
>
>And thank Stan.
>
>During my seasonal shakedown cruise yesterday, I was about a mile out when
>the forestay fast pin came out.  Only the furling line kept the drum
>approximately in the bow pulpit area.
>
>The 175 genoa flailed violently in 10 - 15 knot winds and it kept spinning
>the boat until I cut away the sheets.  Fortunately, the starboard lower
>shroud kept the mast from falling backward as I motored south toward shore
>in a west wind.  Yet I was constantly calculating where the mast would
>fall into the cockpit if the stay didn't hold.  As the out shroud
>spreaders pulled out, that calculation became even more unnerving.
>
>Except for the forestay, all my shrouds are attached to the chain plates
>with cotter ring locked clevis pins.  After having a cotter ring snared
>and pulled out by a sheet, I tape all my clevis pins (corrosion be
>damned).  Now, I'll also be taping the forestay fast pin, too.
>
>BTW, does anyone know how long the 175 genoa sheets should be?
>
>Rick
>
>
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