As I am redoing the rigging on my 1979 Independence 31, I am wondering what the real life rigging failures people have experienced are. I view failures in two basic categories of:
1) those whose discovery is catastrophic via failure of the part in use and;
2) the more preferred method of failure - discovery proactively through inspection.
I experienced the latter last season and found via visual inspection a crack in the swage on the lower eye of my bobstay, and then on further disassembly, a crack in the eye across the end where you can visualize the clevis pin exerting most of its load. I am currently in the process of replacing all my standing rigging.
So, what have been the real world experiences of others? What failed? How did it fail, and did you catch it in time?
-David
Independence 31
Emerald
1) those whose discovery is catastrophic via failure of the part in use and;
2) the more preferred method of failure - discovery proactively through inspection.
I experienced the latter last season and found via visual inspection a crack in the swage on the lower eye of my bobstay, and then on further disassembly, a crack in the eye across the end where you can visualize the clevis pin exerting most of its load. I am currently in the process of replacing all my standing rigging.
So, what have been the real world experiences of others? What failed? How did it fail, and did you catch it in time?
-David
Independence 31
Emerald