Hi Billy Scarpitta here, two-year owner of Sandpiper a 1996 R-22 with IMF.  I had the bolt that goes into the plastic in the boom strip the threads and come out.  When I took the mast down to replace the main I used a longer bolt and put an aircraft type lock nut on the inside.  Did the job, but it's only easy if the mast is already down.Marinatown, Fort Myers, FL

      From: Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
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 Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Boom pin
   
I’ve had this happen a couple of times last season, but only when I was away from the boat, never underway.  I’d come back to the boat after being away for a week or so, and the mast end of the boom would be down at the cabin top.  How this happens has been an unsolved mystery. I don’t have a solution, but if anyone does, I too would be interested in hearing it.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)

> On Feb 20, 2017, at 4:08 PM, John Waldhausen <waldjh1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
> I have a 2012 Rhodes and have found on several occasions that the pin that holds the boom in place on the mast has come out and caused the boom to drop (once at an inopportune time when I was trying to get out of the way of a race in progress). I usually single had the boat and in a low wind its not a problem as I can just just push the boom back up and the pin locks into place again, but in a higher wind (above 15 knots, the force is considerable and its challenging alone). Have any of you dealt with this issue and if so what have you done about it?
> John 
> Bainbridge Island
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