Does anyone have a solution for the jib sheet catching at the bottom of the inboard shroud where the shroud fitting pins to the deck SS plate? See photo.
Jib sheet jams
- Thread starter wyctoronto
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Or, is there any gap between the shroud/chainplate and that chrome strip? If so, you could use a smaller diameter PVC pipe, large enough to cover the shroud and its turnbuckle and cut a slot in its bottom end in a width sufficient to slip over the chanplate.
A crazy idea might be to fab a "plastic" washer with a center hole the size of the clevis pin, the thickness of the opening, and a diameter the would extend to the mouth of the U-shaped fitting. In theory the washer should fill the gap and spin with the sheet. Just a theory
That's more or less what I was trying to describe. Should work and hold up well
I'd suggest to use the rigging tape (amalgamating tape) (almost regardless if you add the washer or a pipe over it). Your picture does not show what you use for the cotter pin, but i have seen a sheet pull the split ring out of the clevis pin. Nothing happened, because the clevis pin was under a load, so it did not fall out, but it could happen.
