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Jib sheet questions and hand wringing
All these horror stories makes me wonder. I have used snap shackles for 35 years
and never had the slightest problem. Yes, I know how to tie a bowline, but untying one on a bouncing fordeck could be a challange. If you grab the sheets back from the clew and pull them in instead of grabbing for the shackle, you should be safe enough. To be fair, I should mention that I only sail a 22 footer, so I can't speak for boats with larger foresails. Sherwin D. Mys Terry wrote: On 12 Mar 2006 16:53:48 -0800, " wrote: I'm with you here, well tied bowlines shouldn't come loose often. I've had it happen a few times on a lazy sheet but I've had more sheets break than bowlines wiggle loose. I really don't like putting hardware onto the clews of non-boomed jibs. Jibs will flog and eventually somebody will get hit by them. I nearly lost my brother when he was hit by a jib that had tied sheets on it. Knocked him out cold and I'm sure he'd be dead if we'd had hardware on the clew. -- Tom Locally we had a guy who thought that snap shackles were the cat's meow for sheets. He would tell everybody how clever it was. Then one day, in stiff winds he was coming about and as the snap shackle dragged across a shroud, it snapped on and took the whole rig down. I've never had THAT problem with a bowline either! |