Rigging faux-pas
- Thread starter Jackdaw
- Start date
It would be nice to be able to quick-release at a controlled and predictable time, though.That's for "quick release".
-Will (Dragonfly)
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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That would be a working tool. This looks like an impromptu solution to a nagging quesiton.
Confession time.... what have you done for a quick fix on a Saturday afternoon sail?
I'll go first, on a MacGregor 22 that I used to own, a gasket failed around the pivot pin for the swing keel and a significant amount of water would come in while on a starboard tack. I had a can of plumber's putty in my "fix-it" kit so I took a golf ball sized wad and mashed it over the head of the pin. Problem solved. I left it there for the remainder of the season and didn't fix it until winter.
I'll go first, on a MacGregor 22 that I used to own, a gasket failed around the pivot pin for the swing keel and a significant amount of water would come in while on a starboard tack. I had a can of plumber's putty in my "fix-it" kit so I took a golf ball sized wad and mashed it over the head of the pin. Problem solved. I left it there for the remainder of the season and didn't fix it until winter.
I had the end of end of BlueJ's tiller split, allowing the pin tube of the tiller extender to fall out, rendering the tiller extension unless. For that upwind I had to drive with just the tiller in the cockpit, something I hate. On the next downwind, we put the broken piece back in place around the tube, and then locked it down with wire-ties and E-tape. Held fine until the new tiller arrived from Beneteau.
During a regatta, 4 Grumpy Old Men on a J-24 were neck and neck on the first upwind beat with against a really talented sailor when the old guy on the foredeck notices that the forestay is no longer attached. The clevis pin had fallen out. When asked, the skipper/owner of the boat said he didn't have any spares on board, nor did he have a screw driver.
Fortunately, the Genoa had a Cunningham and the Cunningham hook fit the forestay. We managed to line things up and stuck the hook in place and finished the day.
Years before I was sailing on a C&C 29 in really lumpy windy conditions on an overcast and cold day. I was on the tiller while the skipper was helping to rig the boat. Just before the start I said, "Here, Terry, you take the tiller" and handed him the tiller which was no longer attached to the rudder post. I sat on the cockpit sole trying to keep the rudder from slamming around too much while the rest of the novice crew got sails down. Eventually we found a roll of duct tape and managed to tape it back together and limped home. It was the closest I ever came to getting seasick, decked out in foul weather gear and sitting on the cockpit sole.
Fortunately, the Genoa had a Cunningham and the Cunningham hook fit the forestay. We managed to line things up and stuck the hook in place and finished the day.
Years before I was sailing on a C&C 29 in really lumpy windy conditions on an overcast and cold day. I was on the tiller while the skipper was helping to rig the boat. Just before the start I said, "Here, Terry, you take the tiller" and handed him the tiller which was no longer attached to the rudder post. I sat on the cockpit sole trying to keep the rudder from slamming around too much while the rest of the novice crew got sails down. Eventually we found a roll of duct tape and managed to tape it back together and limped home. It was the closest I ever came to getting seasick, decked out in foul weather gear and sitting on the cockpit sole.
Indeed! The reason it was in my "fix-it" kit in the first place was to stop those drips that occur right over your bunk (usually 3:00 AM).