turnbuckles

I was thinking about replacing the turnbukles on my e 38 . I went to Navtec and discovered they had a Phuket agent/distributor. he went to my boat and reported as follows. "The problem being that you turnbuckles are unconventional in that they are have inverted toggles to match the...

I lost a lower shroud on my E32 last week when the center body of my Navtec double turnbuckle popped. A neighbor took a quick look and proclaimed, “Oh, Navtec recalled those years ago”. True enough, the stainless steel center bodies had been recalled for a bronze replacement but, of course...

For some reason I always seemed to have to redo the tension on my rig from time to time. So rather than use normal cotter pins in the turnbuckles, I used large stainless split rings. Which worked pretty well, and was quite secure, but did still sometimes catch on the running rigging. Well a...