Cant find the big "clevis Pin" for my mast plate

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emergpa1

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Hi Fellow Odayer's
I hope the new year finds you healthy and happy. We are all fine in Georgia except for the unusually cold winter. Even my shop, which is not well heated is like ice. To cold to do much of anything.
Well, drinking and visiting friends works ok...
I am going over my to do list to try to be sure i am ready to spash at the first sign of spring. I find i have lost some of my hardware. Well, I havn't actually lost it, i have just put some of it somewhere very clever and I can't recall where that is....so.....
What I was hoping is that you guys will once again bail my ignorant ass out of the fire and to find out the name, and better yet, a source for the large stainless steel retaining pin that attaches what i call the mast plate to the tabernacle. The dimensions are 3/8" by 4 7/8 tapered on one end, flush on the other.
Hopefully the pictures are attached.
Thanks
Keith
 

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appleman

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Oct 21, 2005
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Oday 26 Indian Cove, Guilford, CT LIS
Call Rudy at D & R Marine. He has them.
http://www.drmarine.com/proddetail.asp?prod=DR2150P

Winter here has been the way I like it. Consistently cold, which means no warm up and rain, which just makes and icy mess. Snow flurries almost every day, so the snow remains soft and fluffy,and white, even the snow banks have remained soft. The skiing has been fantastic.
 
DeniseO30

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Feb 26, 2009
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just use a long bolt or bar stock that you drill the hole in for the pin. can't be that difficult.
 
Shoaldrafter

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Dec 8, 2006
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Oday 26 Starr, SC
Bailed his ass out again

DeniseO30 said:
just use a long bolt or bar stock that you drill the hole in for the pin. can't be that difficult.
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I am sure glad Keith knows the bailbondsmen.

Rudy seems to have the right pin, I suspect Rig Rite is the same.

The local nut and bolt supply probably can quickly offer a 5" x 3/8 stainless steel boltdoubtful that 4 1/2 is available. As to drilling thru stainless steel stock, for cotter rings/pins, that is more difficult that you should consider unless you have access to machine shop used to drilling thru stainless steel.

The question I have is there is enough room for the nut? I am talking about the the nut that would go on the bolt and not the one turning the bolt. Remember to use lock washer. Also remember that two pins are used.

Now we understand why you supported Obama. Same level of expertize.

Ed K
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And in the Northeast:
 

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Larry3525

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Jun 7, 2004
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Oday O'Day 222 Bass Harbor, NJ
Mast Pins

I bought a spare set from Rudy a few years ago when I had ordered something else. They weren't that expensive and I know they are in the bottom of my rigging box should I lose one when prepairing to launch.
 
Joe11688

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Jan 24, 2005
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I did that very same thing one year Keith. I went crazy looking for that pin. I always put them in the Tabernacle on the cabin. So I went out and bought a couple of stainless steel bolts to use while I was checking to find out who sold these mast pins. Then one day I was screwing around on my boat in the yard and looked up at the mast that was cradled on the mast holders and low and behold there it was, right where I had put it, in the mast extrusion. I have no idea why I put the pin in the upper half of the Tabernacle on the mast. I've never done that before. I would get a couple of bolts for now and sooner or later the pins are going to show up. Those pins sell for about $7 or $8 a piece. Bolts will work just as well for spare pins.
You'll find them, Keith.
Joe
 
emergpa1

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appleman said:
Call Rudy at D & R Marine. He has them.
http://www.drmarine.com/proddetail.asp?prod=DR2150P

Winter here has been the way I like it. Consistently cold, which means no warm up and rain, which just makes and icy mess. Snow flurries almost every day, so the snow remains soft and fluffy,and white, even the snow banks have remained soft. The skiing has been fantastic.
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When it gets cold here we get stuck inside as we (i anyway) lack decent winter attire. Plus shop not heated, no winter biking cloths etc. But spring is just around the corner...well almost anyway.

Ed I didn't mean i drank and then DROVE to visit friends, but when i read over my post it sure looked like that is what I meant! I do not want to end up in Jail!
 
Joe11688

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emergpa1 said:
Thanks Rich, that is what i need!

Joe, You are right about finding them, in fact, I meant to check in my truck tool boxes today (again but more intensely now) but haven't had the chance. I am stuck at work. I know that sucker is around somewhere.

Ed,.......sigh (Lol)

keith
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Keith,
Just pick up a couple of s.s. bolts and nuts and keep them on board just in case you ever lose your tabernacle pins. I guarantee you that the pins are going to show up soon.
It's been "colder than a well diggers a*# in Montana" in my neck of the woods too. :cussing: Come on, spring!
Joe
 
LordNelson

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Sep 20, 2006
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that's the reason i try to keep everything i can in place and connected for the winter. when every i try putting it in a "safe" place for the winter i can't find it in the spring.
 
gabriel.donnelly

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Sep 16, 2009
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Huh... I'm missing 1 of mine too it seems.

I've been under sail multiple times... dodged yet another bullet I guess! Glad I checked cuz of this forum!
 
Joe11688

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gabriel.donnelly said:
I've been under sail multiple times... dodged yet another bullet I guess! Glad I checked cuz of this forum!
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Gabe,
When I misplaced my pin I couldn't figure out where I put it, but it turned out that I was putting my mast up one day in the yard for a dry run and for some foolish reason, I put the pin on the plate on the mast with the rings in place. I've never done that before. I've always put the pins back in the plate on the cabin, but this time I rolled the mast ahead and stowed it on the mast carriers for trailering. I thought that it got lost until one day I looked up at the plate on the mast and there it was. :doh: S*&% happens, I guess. :D
 
Shoaldrafter

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Dec 8, 2006
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gabriel said, "

gabriel.donnelly said:
I've been under sail multiple times... dodged yet another bullet I guess! Glad I checked cuz of this forum!
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Gabriel said, "I've been under sail multiple times... dodged yet another bullet I guess! Glad I checked cuz of this forum!"

Another thing to check if you leave your boat rigged is the turnbuckels for the stays.

My boat had the original turn buckel bottoms with a nut to tighten to lock the stays from turning. Well a recent inspection showed the nuts on the outer stays had worked loose after a lot of wind. One stay had gotten loose.

I have now replaced the bottom that connects to the chain plate with the same as the top using cleivis rings that I can see from a distance. Stays do get loose if not secured.

Ed K
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Joe11688

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Jan 24, 2005
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Shoaldrafter said:
Gabriel said, "I've been under sail multiple times... dodged yet another bullet I guess! Glad I checked cuz of this forum!"

Another thing to check if you leave your boat rigged is the turnbuckels for the stays.

My boat had the original turn buckel bottoms with a nut to tighten to lock the stays from turning. Well a recent inspection showed the nuts on the outer stays had worked loose after a lot of wind. One stay had gotten loose.

I have now replaced the bottom that connects to the chain plate with the same as the top using cleivis rings that I can see from a distance. Stays do get loose if not secured.

Ed K
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That's a good point well taken Ed.
 
emergpa1

emergpa1

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Oct 2, 2008
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warning, political bull crap....

1. ed. i bet you will be watching Mass. Senate election (replace kennedy) closely!
Sorry Guys. Please forgive me, I am just saying hello to my buddy Ed.....

2. As close as i have gotten to sailing is reading the third Jack Aubrey Novel (the maritius command) good stuff. What a wealth of sailor speak. I wish I could understand half of what they are speaking of. Still it is great reading.

3. i am tearing out my den and remodeling it, so have been pretty busy with that and work. I hope everyone is doing well. If i can get this done without going bankrupt, then i should be able to launch "my girl" this march. Can't wait!
No reply necessary.
 
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beeteejr

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Oday Daysailer 3 Raleigh, NC - Area Lakes
Try drmarine.com . They have a good supply of O'Day parts.

good luck,
Bill
 
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