A good lashing and they won’t slack off
Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011
A number of ideas have appeared in Good Old Boat recently for locking turnbuckles without using cotter pins in the conventional way (March and July 2010 issues). If the turnbuckles on your shrouds are close to each other or, better yet, in line with each other, here’s an even simpler way to keep them from unscrewing: a line tied between the two. It works for us on our C&C 30.
Michael Facius is Good Old Boat’s publisher and advertising manager and sails a 1979 C&C 30, Callisto, out of Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior. He and his wife, Patty, have been sailing since 1986, beginning with an O’Day 20.
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