I don't have snap shackles on my main or on my furling genoa. Both sails'
halyards are attached with shackles that have pins that screw in. The pins
have never come loose. I have snap shackles on my spinnaker halyards, and
more than once they have come undone when raising the spinnaker in heavy
win
Is it a J shackle?
https://www.westmarine.com/buy/tylaska-marine-hardware--j-lock-j8-shackle--11830239
Are you tightening by hand or using a tool to tighten?
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 9:39 AM Bill Coleman via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> A snap shackle on a halyard is not likely to fi
A snap shackle on a halyard is not likely to fit through a headboard, or in my
case where there is a snap shackle spliced on the jib halyard, I flipped it
sideways (not used) and put a regular shackle on B/C the snap shackle won’t fit
through the roller furler casting. I think snap shackles are
