Yesterday I was out sailing and we had an accidental gybe in light air. It didn't look like the boom swung over too hard, but clearly it did.
The shackle holding the pin on the gooseneck to the tack on the mainsail sheared off.
Luckily I got to the mast, quickly pushed the pin up and we dropped the mainsail. I had a spare shackle pin and was able to rig a temporary fix.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jGMUKboKpEDu5MVh6. (shows the setup before the damage)
I don't understand why the pin is setup to go up from the bottom instead of top down so even. It also seems risky to have a single shackle holding the mainsail directly onto the pin in the gooseneck. At the least I would use one shackle on the gooseneck pin and another to connect from that shackle to the tack on the mainsail.
Can anyone share best practices or securing the boom to the gooseneck ? I'll take some closeup pics of the current setup tomorrow and post.
Thanks.
The shackle holding the pin on the gooseneck to the tack on the mainsail sheared off.
Luckily I got to the mast, quickly pushed the pin up and we dropped the mainsail. I had a spare shackle pin and was able to rig a temporary fix.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jGMUKboKpEDu5MVh6. (shows the setup before the damage)
I don't understand why the pin is setup to go up from the bottom instead of top down so even. It also seems risky to have a single shackle holding the mainsail directly onto the pin in the gooseneck. At the least I would use one shackle on the gooseneck pin and another to connect from that shackle to the tack on the mainsail.
Can anyone share best practices or securing the boom to the gooseneck ? I'll take some closeup pics of the current setup tomorrow and post.
Thanks.