Our Drascombe Lugger ONKAHYE has a roller furling jib, the jibstay is attached to the furler drum with a cotter pin and small cotter ring.
The cotter ring is very small and hard to manipulate, so we'll see if we can undo the shackle at the tack grommet vs the cotter ring. (In breaking news, the Skipper has been wanting to do it that way for years but had other folks going down other rigging paths). The tack shackle is there because the newer jib grommet on the Bartlett sail was a bit oversize to fit directly into the top of the furler drum. If the upper shackle path doesn't work, we are going to try a different size cotter ring or U shackle to see if we can make rigging the jibstay a little easier. All that said, some folks take the entire furler drum assembly loose when the boat is downrigged so that the furler is not left on the stem, to reduce UV damage or potential for sticky fingers. We don't because we store the boat in the garage and it is one less step to rig the furler line.
Here are some candidates for replacement parts. This also denotes the part size if anyone needs to order a replacement, 3/16th inch diameter by 3/4 inches long barrel.
We'll report the results! (Edit: The results are in. The U shackle was not a good idea, there was one more part to keep track of and it was hard to thread the pin through the shackle, then the furler tang, then the jibstay shackle, then the furler tang again and finally into the U shackle. So we'll scrap that and go back to the cotter pin, but add a bigger cotter ring, and next time try undoing the shackle on the end of the jibstay).
Log of ONKAHYE.
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