[Rhodes22-list] Spring loaded pop top pin

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Hi Rob - thank you for clearing up a mystery for me. My 76 Rhodes
has a 2 " cotter pin - the kind shaped roughly like a P with one straight leg and one that bulges to make the round part of the P and apply tension....excuse my fumbling description - a standard hardware store item the same size as I have on my mowing tractor to attach the cutting deck.
It is attached to a loop on the base of the mast with a length of string to keep it from wandering away and that is how I keep the pop top up - the straight side of the cotter pin slides through the two holes the other leg keeps it in place.
Not a very elegant or Rhodes-like solution but it works fine, at least until you realize there was once a spring loaded pin designed to do the job. I also have one of these cotter pins that holds the boom end in place. Is that also a spring loaded pin on other Rhodes?
Anyway this should work for you temporarily at least. If you have any luck getting the original part from GB would you let me know so I can order one as well?
I launched Patience two days ago and was delighted when she didn't sink and the centreboard went down and up. I feel like a kid with his first bicycle. Dazed and delighted. What a beautiful boat. Everything is a first - first cup of coffee made on the Origo, first nap in the cabin, first attempt at putting the rails under in a spanking wind - failed but fun - first time doing a high speed come about within calling distance of a marina full of big Beneteaus and wanting to shout 'the wind's up! wake up fools and come sailing!!!'
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Jefferson
S.V. Patience
Lake Memphremagog, Quebec
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