Anyone seen the shackles for my sails?

[snooks]

I put them somewhere safe in October, now it's time to bend the sails on and I can't find them

[James_Calvert]

Hmm... I left the mainsail tack shackle attached to the gooseneck fitting, the clew one attached to the outhaul runner in the boom, and I couldn't get the one that attached to the halyard off If I wanted to. Likewise for the genoa. So that's where I'd look for them.

[johnalison]

Whoever has pinched this lot - could they return the Clevis pin from my boom strut?

[prv]

I always leave rig shackles attached to one side or the other of what they used to hold together.

Not that that's much help to you now

Pete

[Woodlouse]

Look in the chart table. Things like that always migrate towards the chart table.

[Blueboatman]

The fun is reuniting all the other 'losts and founds' whilst searching for, er, I forget now, what was I looking for again?

[parsifal]

I have one locker where such things are always put (usually). Small items such as screws and clevis pins go into minigrip bags with a description written on it; e.g. "Don't know what these are for but better keep them in case they're important".

[galadriel]

I put them somewhere safe in October, now it's time to bend the sails on and I can't find them

Didnt someone sell them on ebay, as advertised in the 'For Sale' forum?

[Searush]

They're stainless (or possibly bronze) so just leave them on the sail. Why would anyone be so daft as to remove them & hide them?

[Plomong]

I put them somewhere safe in October, now it's time to bend the sails on and I can't find them

Don't worry, snooks, they'll turn up ten minutes after you have fitted the new ones. Then yuo'll have spares for the next time . . .




if you remember where you stowed the spares, that is !!!!

Plomong