[quote=shortyfox][quote]My money is the ring-ding got snagged, bent and came off... thus allowing your shroud to be free (i have never seen nor heard of a correctly sized pin actually failing on a beach cat)[/quote]
Once on a Hobie 16 we surmised the spit ring got caught on the righting line and the shroud adjuster pin came out and the mast came down. There was no one on the bay that day and it was blowing hard, no beach nearby and getting blown towards a seawall with lots of barnacles and oysters to cut us up. We got the sail out of the mast track and the mast and boom across the tramp. We were desperately waving the jib to attract the attention of the only boat in sight. We were saved. It would have been a mess being blown into the seawall and we would have been climbing up on a dock at some rich person's house. What we learned is use cotter pins instead of split rings for things that are crucial and use those plastic shroud adjuster covers. Also, I used to keep my boat in a mast up storage facility where I would get lazy and didn't check the things up top very often. That's one advantage to having to step the mast every time we go out.[/quote]
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