[C320-list] Traveler shackle

[Scott Thompson]

Well if you watch that commercial carefully you will see that his genoa 
is backwinded and he is being towed! (Much easier to avoid rounding up 
that way.) They don't even try to hide the tow line.

On 12/28/2011 10:03 PM, Jack McDonough wrote:
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> Hey, Mike.
>
> In the Viagara commercial on TV, the guy sailing single-handed replaced
> a broken boom shackle while underway without even firing up the engine
> or rounding up. How difficult can it be?
>
> jack
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Paris" <mparis495 at gmail.com>
> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:27 PM
> Subject: [C320-list] Traveler shackle
>
>
>> I had the shackle on traveler car break clean through today in 6 knots
>> of wind. Its a single shackle that the double block from the Main
>> connects to. Have any of you had this happen?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike P
>> #734
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>

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Scott Thompson
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