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Using Toggle Pin

The document provides instructions for using a toggle pin to release mooring lines from mooring bitts on a boat. The toggle pin is shackled to the bitts and a messenger line is run from the winch through an eye spliced in the end to the mooring line. The messenger line is wrapped around the mooring line and a bight is passed through an eye with the toggle pin inserted. Heaving in on the messenger line pulls the toggle pin to release the mooring line from the bitts.

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Using Toggle Pin

The document provides instructions for using a toggle pin to release mooring lines from mooring bitts on a boat. The toggle pin is shackled to the bitts and a messenger line is run from the winch through an eye spliced in the end to the mooring line. The messenger line is wrapped around the mooring line and a bight is passed through an eye with the toggle pin inserted. Heaving in on the messenger line pulls the toggle pin to release the mooring line from the bitts.

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Using Toggle Pin

HOW TO USE A TOGGLE PIN


1. Shackle the Toggle-pennant to the mooring bitts.

2. Run the messenger ( with a small eye spliced in the end ) from winch to the mooring
line to be released.

3. Take the messenger and make a turn around the mooring line.

4. Pass a bight of the messenger through the eye.

5. Pass the Toggle through this bight.


6. Heave in on the Messenger rope.

7. Remove mooring lines from the bitts.

8. Slack the messenger line, the toggle will release itself and the messenger will be freed and
the mooring line will slide free.

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