[Rhodes22-list] Thank goodness for 9 stays

[sloopblueheron at isp.com]

Bill,

I'm not sure what you are asking.  It has a spring loaded push button.  No
washer, whatever that would be for.

Rick

> Bob,
>
> What kind of quick release clevis pin were you using?  The push button
> on the end kind, or the spring loaded?  I've never heard of the push
> button on the end kind failing in this way provided it is backed up by a
> properly sized washer.  The push button on the end kind are very
> expensive and metric sized.  When they fail they tend to rust solid and
> become a real problem to remove.
>
> Bill Effros
>
> Bob Weber wrote:
>> 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
>>> Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> 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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