Alexander-Roberts Company

[amkaplan]

I have a friend who experienced catastrophic failure of an Alexander-Roberts toggle in his mast rigging. When questioned, Alexander-Roberts fessed-up that they had had a bad batch of toggles, and that those made since have a designating mark to identify the good ones. Why the old ones weren’t recalled raises a red flag for me. Googling will turn up other references to Alexander-Roberts failures.

Allan