[Rhodes22-list] Stay there!

[Hank]

You use cotter keys or cotter pins through the holes in the end of the
turnbuckles.  I'm sure you are about to get a ton of comments on the merits
of both. :-)

Hank

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Joe Camp <jjcampjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey all:
>
>     Does anyone use lock nuts on the stay turnbuckles?  I was out a couple
> of
> weeks ago in some really severe winds and noticed that my starboard side
> stays
> had too much play in them.  I got them tightened down, but had the worst
> happened with all of the mast movement, I may have been fishing the whole
> damn
> rig out of the water.  Thanks.
>
> Joe Camp
> s/v John Dawson
> High Point, NC
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