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

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IF the rings are installed correctly, this cannot happen.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 6/18/2013 9:25:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
michaelhellyar at icloud.com writes:

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
sent  from my iPad

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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