[Public-List] Tomfoolery -- Alberg 35 Rigging Failure

[Mike Lehman]

I install brand new cotter pins every year.

On Oct 30, 2017 9:14 PM, "Jonathan Bresler via Public-List" <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Was catching up on issues of Good Old Boat this weekend.  Read about the
> rigging failure on Tomfoolery, an Alberg 35, in the September/October
> issue.  A steel cotter pin, inserted into a bronze clevis pin securing the
> jib stay, corroded and in corroding increased in diameter. The cotter pin
> was a tight fit and in corroding split the clevis pin securing the jibstay
> to the stem.
>
> Got to wondering about Constance.  If that was the case on an Alberg 35,
> then perhaps Alberg 30's might have the same issue.   Happy to report that
> the cotter pin was not corroded and was not a tight fit in the bronze
> clevis pin.   However, one of the two bent legs of the cotter pin had
> broken off.  The other leg broke off immediately upon my first attempt to
> straighten it in order to replace the cotter pin.   Cotter pin has been
> replaced with another, one that is just a bit small so that there is a bit
> of room between the cotter pin and the clevis pin.
>
> You may wish to check yours as well.  The article starts on page 36 of the
> September/October 2017 issue of Good Old Boat.
>
> Jonathan
> --
> Jonathan M Bresler
> S/V Constance Alberg 30 #262
> Annapolis/Eastport MD
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