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Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to share their suggestions of where to look and in particular thank you to VTaero because when I subsequently had a look at my sail it was indeed the batten tensioner that had come out. I now need to work out why that would be the case because I had checked it a couple of weeks before and it certainly wasn't anywhere close to coming out.
Time to call RS about getting a replacement.....happy sailing everyone
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Time to call RS about getting a replacement.....happy sailing everyone
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28/05/2021 17:28:00
pjt
Posts: 2
Hi pjt!
Do you have a wind indicator at your mast base? I've experienced a similar mystery. Turned out it was a small pin that is lodged at the top of the wind indicator 'arrow'. It serves as a weight to stabilize it, and popped out.
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Do you have a wind indicator at your mast base? I've experienced a similar mystery. Turned out it was a small pin that is lodged at the top of the wind indicator 'arrow'. It serves as a weight to stabilize it, and popped out.
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25/05/2021 10:40:00
Tine
Posts: 2
Possible out of the gooseneck, that size pin is whats used for the outhaul and vang/kicker pulleys to rotate on.
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25/05/2021 00:30:00
Tijuana Taxi
Posts: 19
I've had this happen--a great mystery for me as well until I realized that it was the screw/pin that tensions one of the battens.
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25/05/2021 00:23:00
VTaero
Posts: 2
pjt,
The only pins are the screw pin on the kicker shackle and the clevis pin on the mainsheet block and you would have noticed either of those falling out!
The hole at the end of the boom next to where the outhaul exits is spare and unused, it is just a drain hole. Just maybe you had a small pebble inside your boom that fell out through there?
I am with Russell - check your goosneck bolt's nut, just occasionally they have been known to come loose.
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The only pins are the screw pin on the kicker shackle and the clevis pin on the mainsheet block and you would have noticed either of those falling out!
The hole at the end of the boom next to where the outhaul exits is spare and unused, it is just a drain hole. Just maybe you had a small pebble inside your boom that fell out through there?
I am with Russell - check your goosneck bolt's nut, just occasionally they have been known to come loose.
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24/05/2021 16:14:00
Peter Barton
Posts: 4674
A few weeks ago I had a similar experience with something shiny that I couldn't identify rolling on the deck until it rolled over the side. It was the nut off the gooseneck bolt - it doesn't really fit your description of the object - but fits with all the other stuff.
Russell
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Russell
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24/05/2021 14:15:00
Russell
Posts: 16
Hi fellow forum members,
I am hoping you can all help me identify a boat part that mysteriously went 'walk about' whilst sailing yesterday.
I was sailing upwind in my 5 rig with plenty of downhaul and kicker on given the rather windy conditions when what I can only describe as something like a large pin fell from somewhere around the mast/gooseneck/boom, landed near the mast step rolled about for a few seconds before rolling over the side before I was able to grab it. I would estimate that the pin was 1-2cm long and 3-5mm in diameter. There was no immediate change in behaviour of the boat (nothing stopped working), although I did retire from the race and head ashore trying to minimise load on the rig just in case.
Having got ashore I looked over the boat and couldn't see anything obviously missing and so am at a loss to explain what it was, where it has come from and how important it is! The only one thing that looked like a vague possibility is when I look at the boom end on, there is the hole in the middle that the gooseneck pin goes in, one to the lower right that the outhaul runs through and another one directly directly below the middle hole that I don't know what it would be for (could the pin have come out of there?)
I would be really grateful for any suggestions of where to look.
Thanks in advance.
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I am hoping you can all help me identify a boat part that mysteriously went 'walk about' whilst sailing yesterday.
I was sailing upwind in my 5 rig with plenty of downhaul and kicker on given the rather windy conditions when what I can only describe as something like a large pin fell from somewhere around the mast/gooseneck/boom, landed near the mast step rolled about for a few seconds before rolling over the side before I was able to grab it. I would estimate that the pin was 1-2cm long and 3-5mm in diameter. There was no immediate change in behaviour of the boat (nothing stopped working), although I did retire from the race and head ashore trying to minimise load on the rig just in case.
Having got ashore I looked over the boat and couldn't see anything obviously missing and so am at a loss to explain what it was, where it has come from and how important it is! The only one thing that looked like a vague possibility is when I look at the boom end on, there is the hole in the middle that the gooseneck pin goes in, one to the lower right that the outhaul runs through and another one directly directly below the middle hole that I don't know what it would be for (could the pin have come out of there?)
I would be really grateful for any suggestions of where to look.
Thanks in advance.
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24/05/2021 12:55:00
pjt
Posts: 2
