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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:56:12 -0500, rhys wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:17:42 -0500, Matt Colie wrote: I am not saying that the young man involved might have done better, but I think the group should know what the situation is really like. I am never without a knife (except on an airplane recently), and have had one all my life. It is an essential working tool for a waterman. I have both a multi-tool and a rigging knife. This thread got me to thinking about tethers. I remember Practical Sailor testing both knives and tethers by recording how quickly a tether could slashed. Also, I believe that when one of tall ships went down a crew member could not get free of his tether and was dragged down. Since then, snap shackles seem to be the favoured attachment method at the harness. Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of the efficacy of the snap shackles? Can they be released under load? From my own experience I will only use Gibb or Wichard clips for attaching to u bolts or jacklines. I had a tether come off while I was on a foredeck at night. It managed to attach itself to the jib sheet. Jack __________________________________________________ Jack Dale Swiftsure Sailing Academy Director/ISPA and CYA Instructor http://www.swiftsuresailing.com Phone: 1 (877) 470-SAIL (toll free) __________________________________________________ |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"Jack Dale" wrote in message
... [ about tethers and quick-release ] Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of the efficacy of the snap shackles? Can they be released under load? From my own experience I will only use Gibb or Wichard clips for attaching to u bolts or jacklines. I had a tether come off while I was on a foredeck at night. It managed to attach itself to the jib sheet. Whenever VALIS sails beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, everyone puts on a tether (and sometimes in the bay, if conditions warrant). The ones I have on board use a "Wichard Safety Hook" at the boat end, and a quick-release snap shackle at the harness end. The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these (or the Wichard hooks) open accidentally. I used to have some tethers with a caribeener-style snap hook for the boat end, and it was scary how easily these would accidentally release when hooked onto a pad-eye. -Paul s/v VALIS |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"Jack Dale" wrote in message
... [ about tethers and quick-release ] Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of the efficacy of the snap shackles? Can they be released under load? From my own experience I will only use Gibb or Wichard clips for attaching to u bolts or jacklines. I had a tether come off while I was on a foredeck at night. It managed to attach itself to the jib sheet. Whenever VALIS sails beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, everyone puts on a tether (and sometimes in the bay, if conditions warrant). The ones I have on board use a "Wichard Safety Hook" at the boat end, and a quick-release snap shackle at the harness end. The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these (or the Wichard hooks) open accidentally. I used to have some tethers with a caribeener-style snap hook for the boat end, and it was scary how easily these would accidentally release when hooked onto a pad-eye. -Paul s/v VALIS |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
The quick-release shackle has a nice
lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
The quick-release shackle has a nice
lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. Same thing with the aforementioned snap-carabiners. I'm a (not very accomplished) rock climber of sorts, and a snap gate crab is NEVER used as a primary means of hooking into a line, and the use of a locking (screw gate) crab is frowned on as well- knots are the only safe way, in rock climbing. Of course, it's a bit of a different situation; if the rock sinks you've had it anyway |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. Same thing with the aforementioned snap-carabiners. I'm a (not very accomplished) rock climber of sorts, and a snap gate crab is NEVER used as a primary means of hooking into a line, and the use of a locking (screw gate) crab is frowned on as well- knots are the only safe way, in rock climbing. Of course, it's a bit of a different situation; if the rock sinks you've had it anyway |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"JAXAshby" wrote in message
... The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. I'm not saying it can't happen -- it just hasn't happened to me or my crew during many thousands of miles of blue-water and coastal sailing. The short release lanyard is close to the chest and not easily snagged. Of course it *could* release accidentally, but I feel that the ability to manually quick-release the tether more than compensates for the slight (as I see it) risk of accidental release. If anyone know of a better solution, I would love to hear of it. I thoroughly agree that snap shakles at the boat-end of the tether are unacceptable. -Paul s/v VALIS |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"JAXAshby" wrote in message
... The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. I'm not saying it can't happen -- it just hasn't happened to me or my crew during many thousands of miles of blue-water and coastal sailing. The short release lanyard is close to the chest and not easily snagged. Of course it *could* release accidentally, but I feel that the ability to manually quick-release the tether more than compensates for the slight (as I see it) risk of accidental release. If anyone know of a better solution, I would love to hear of it. I thoroughly agree that snap shakles at the boat-end of the tether are unacceptable. -Paul s/v VALIS |
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News of sailing tragedy off San Francisco? (tethers and attachment methods)
"Paul" wrote in message ...
"JAXAshby" wrote in message ... The quick-release shackle has a nice lanyard on the release pin and it works smoothly. I have never had one of these ... open accidentally. maybe *you* haven't, but most of the sailing world has. snap shackles are thoroughly considered to be no-no's on tethers because they so often come open when the lanyard gets snagged on something. I'm not saying it can't happen -- it just hasn't happened to me or my crew during many thousands of miles of blue-water and coastal sailing. The short release lanyard is close to the chest and not easily snagged. Of course it *could* release accidentally, but I feel that the ability to manually quick-release the tether more than compensates for the slight (as I see it) risk of accidental release. If anyone know of a better solution, I would love to hear of it. I thoroughly agree that snap shakles at the boat-end of the tether are unacceptable. -Paul s/v VALIS I fully agree with Paul. In over 10 000 miles oif offshore sailing, my Lewmar bronze snapshackle has never opened accidentally. As a matter of fact, it tales a bit of effort to open it deliberately. The "lanyard" (actually a shor "tail") would find it very difficult to snag anywhere. john |
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