Sally - Whisker pole in the water

Tonight we have our first incident, the snap shackle to the uphaul on the whisker pole opened and the pole fell down with one end in the water. At the moment we did 7 knots and the pole was pushing back on the forward lower shroud. After a couple of stressfull minutes, we get it up from the water and released the pressure on the shroud. Now we are back on track again and we also know why the snap shackel opened. The pin that secures the shackel has a small keyring used as stopper, think it’s standard on most of this kind of snap shackles. One end of the wire in the ring has fastened in the unused genua sheet that run over the end of the boom and the sheet finally opened the snap shackle.
Lessons learned, put tape on every sprint with a locking ring that can be stuck in a rope like this and don’t run a rope where there is a snap shackle that can be opened by mistake.