Found this cotter pin laying on the deck of my Hunter 340 in front of the mast after the last race. Race was light wind, but we used both socked spinnakers and the whisker pole. I’ll spend the next several hours next time I’m at the marina looking for where it might have came from. It’s pretty small, so I don’t think it came from a turnbuckle or standing rigging clevis, at least I hope not. If anybody has an educated guess it would help. My mind is planning for the worst, that I don’t find the obvious place it came from and I have to pay for a rigger to go up the mast and still don’t find a open hole where it went.
It really wasn’t secured with a proper bend. I guess if you wanted to mess with someone, you could lay one of these on their deck where they’ll spot it.
It really wasn’t secured with a proper bend. I guess if you wanted to mess with someone, you could lay one of these on their deck where they’ll spot it.