[Rhodes22-list] Mystery Part

[Joe Camp]

Thanks All:

Great advice, as usual.  I am leaning toward the tang at the end of the mainsail.  That would explain the "boing" (or, was it a "ping") sound when it hit the deck.  I have to get up to the boat (berthed in a parking space at a storage facility nearby) and examine all of those possibilities.  I have already checked the spreaders; everything is there on both sides.  I believed I had everything secure when I hoisted the boom to the mast.  But, "when you assume, you make as ass... everybody knows the rest.  So, I suppose this event sees the proof of that time-worn axiom.  ttfn.

Joe 


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From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Mystery Part

Or the main sheet shackle if you left it on the tang, or whatever 
guide block you had on the boom....

If it came from higher up, I'd check the spreaders and the masthead 
but both are usually pretty simple. We've got a block for a flag 
halyard on the spreader and a block for the topping lift at the 
masthead but if that came loose, it would still have the topping lift 
through it.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 07:25 PM 9/19/2011, you wrote:
>If it came from high above your head,  maybe the slightly bent 
>stainless tang that holds the topping lift to the aft end of 
>the  boom, or the other tang that the mainsheet shackle attaches to.
>
>My uneducated guess.
>
>Jim Connolly
>s/v Inisheer
>'85 recycled '03
>
>"Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Joe,
> >
> >The mystery part was most likely the car that rode in the lower portion of
> >the mast track that connected to the front of the pop-top.
> >
> >Mike
> >s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
> >Nissequogue River, NY
> >
> >From: "Joe Camp"  Monday, September 19, 2011 5:35 PM
> >Hi all:
> >
> >Here's the scoop: While stepping down my mast in late July, I lost an
> >unknown part. I had gotten the lines off the boom and raised it up against
> >the mast. made it fast with a bungee. Suddenly, something metal came
> >clanging down (I believe from high up on the stern end of the mast) hit the
> >deck with a "boing" like a tuning fork and then took the deep-six. I have
> >not had time to closely inspect the boat since then and cannot (given my
> >limited experience with the R-22) figure out what part this might have been.
> >
> >I would appreciate any informed speculation from the saltier among you what
> >the hell I lost, so I can replace it and sail in the spring. I have spent
> >sleepless hours envisioning the rigging on the boom and looking at 
> pictures.
> >Save me!
> >
> >Joe Camp
> >s/v John Dawson
> >Hatboro, PA
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