[Rhodes22-list] Problem with Main Sail shackle with screw pin

[Michael Hellyar]

Then you will appreciate this. A ring retaining a clevis pin on the turnbuckle came loose and the stay was hanging in the stiff breeze. The ring was right there on the deck. I searched for the pin but could not find it. I had an extra so I grabbed the stay to re-attach it to the turnbuckle and OMG there was the clevis pin, yes, still inserted though both sides. No lie ! But it was one of those days. So, just when I re-inserted the lock ring and secured the starboard stay,wham, the port stay turnbuckle ring also came off. And guess what ? Yep. Same thing. The clevis pin was still inserted through both sides and the ring was right there on the deck. Friends, this is no sailor's tale. How it can happen must be purely physics and chance and good luck. But I don't use those rings anymore. Stainless seizing wire. 

Mike Hellyar
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On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Leland <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

> Borat,
> 
> Yesterday evening a clevis pin and codder ring securing one of my leeward
> shrouds jumped overboard.  First time that's ever happened.  Fortunately it
> was an easy temporary fix and didn't slow us down.  Even more fortunate it
> wasn't on the windward side of a boat with less shrouds.
> 
> I'm amazed at how many things come loose under the bending and flexing
> caused by sailing.  A pre-flight checklist would probably be smart but it
> would be so long that the juice might not be worth the squeeze.  If
> something comes loose it's unlikely that you'll plummet to your death.  I'd
> say you could limit your checklist to your motor and tiller/rudder but as
> you've experienced, something like a mainsheet is pretty important too.
> 
> I took the basic US Sailing course out of the Navy Station in Annapolis on
> the Academy's old Rainbow knockabouts.  We didn't have motors but there was
> nothing to hit when we hooked up to mooring balls.  The JWorld school at
> Annapolis is just like Newport Harbor.  Impressive to watch them work their
> way through a maze of docks without using motors. 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
> 
> 
> 
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