Because that’s how I feel after we replaced all of the cotter pins with cotter rings on our sailboat. 🙁 Ahhh, the joys of boat ownership and cruising life, I suppose.
It was s a job that desperately needed to get done since we recently removed the plastic rigging sleeves that were protecting us from these jagged little pins. With the pins exposed it had become way too easy to cut our legs every time we brushed by one.
^^those pins were poking out like tiny little knives just waiting to slice a leg.^^
This was a pretty simple replacement job that entailed picking up a pack of cotter rings at West Marine, weaseling out the old cotter pins with pliers and a hammer, and inserting the new cotter rings using my beloved fingernails.
Yes, I could have easily just used a screwdriver to help open the ring, but for some reason I didn’t because the project was going so smoothly and speedily using only my nails/fingers. Oh well, lesson learned.
Let’s cross another (super small) one off the project list! Getting closer + closer to sailing!!!
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Such a simple project it’s easy to overlook! We need to do this too since we’ve experienced scraped shins. Ours are covered with rigging tape to protect the sails, but the pointy ends find their way through the tape eventually, not to mention what a pain it is to tape and re-tape a couple of times per year.
Super simple and definitely worth the trouble. No more leg cuts for us! 🙂 -Kim