[C320-list] Traveler shackle

[Jack McDonough]

I'm going to have to look at that one more closely.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Thompson" <surprise at thompson87.com>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Traveler shackle


> 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:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
> 
> -- 
> Scott Thompson
> Surprise, #653