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Found a clevis pin on deck!

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JohnP
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Initially Posted - 08/07/2012 : 10:50:55

Oh boy, was I worried about going out sailing with my son that day!

The clevis pin was about 3/4" long and 1/4" in diameter - Don't remember exactly. It was pretty worn from years of use, just like most of the equipment on my boat.

Where did it come from? I looked at the lifelines first, then at the mast from bottom to top, with binoculars even! Forestay and backstay were good and nothing I could see was missing a clevis pin. I couldn't find anything wrong!

That was in May, 2011, and nothing has fallen off the Gypsy since then!

Right around that time last year, someone on the Forum mentioned that some sly racing competitors sometimes put a piece of loose equipment on their competitor's boat to cause mayhem and panic. That's seems pretty ruthless to me! But I do not race my boat, and my marina is very quiet with polite, friendly folks coming and going. The one J-boat that races is 2 slips away, but the skipper and his various crew members are all business when they show up every Wednesday evening.

How do loose clevis pins fly around a marina? Maybe someone lost parts overboard from the old O'Day 25 in the next slip?

I waited about a year to admit that I've been sailing with a mystery clevis pin in my parts collection!!! The Gypsy certainly has been put through its paces since then.

Anyone else find mystery equipment on deck?

JohnP
1978 C25 SR/FK "Gypsy"
Mill Creek off the Magothy River, Chesapeake Bay
Port Captain, northern Chesapeake Bay

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 08/07/2012 : 11:02:54

I have put an old pawl in a cockpit before... I am not a nice person.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 08/07/2012 : 11:40:37

Usually from someone replacing one and throwing it overboard in disgust, and it goes farther than they thought...

Either that or your rig is about to come down.

As I've said... take a picture of everything and look at it zoomed in on the computer.. not hard to do and you will probably be surprised what you see, and what you thought you were seeing..

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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 08/07/2012 : 11:42:13

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JohnP
 ...some sly racing competitors sometimes put a piece of loose equipment on their competitor's boat to cause mayhem and panic. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Hmmmm, thanks for the.......

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 08/07/2012 : 12:55:38

Beer cans.

You spend the night on the boat and have one or two beers. In the morning its beer cans in the coaming boxes, beer cans in the sink. Beer cans on the floor, beer cans on the table. Where did they all come from???

And the cooler's empty.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 08/07/2012 : 19:42:26

I found a circlip once - then my main sheet let go. Never found the pin.

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redeye
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Response Posted - 08/08/2012 : 04:36:15

Beer Cans...

And have you ever noticed they shrink in the heat. We went out about 2 weeks ago in 95 degree weather and the cans became very small.. every time you picked one up it was empty...

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jerlim
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Response Posted - 08/08/2012 : 05:20:42

If you found the pin, then the shackle or turn buckle w/ shackle eye will have let loose and whatever was attached would be disconnected. Last week, I did find the split ring that keeps the clevis pin in place for the life line connection between the forward and aft lines laying where it fell. How in the heck did that ring unwind itself?? Fortunately, the pin was oriented head end on top, so the pin did not back out...

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 08/08/2012 : 06:19:25

I had a friend point out I had no rings in EITHER lifeline. They were tight enough to not fall out. Likely it had been that way for many years

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Response Posted - 08/08/2012 : 09:13:35

FWIW I would never use rings on rigging, they do back out.

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