If you use ring cotter pins on the fixed rigging , where there is a clevis pin, or any other critical areas, be sure you tape the ring cotter pin so neither end can be hooked. A thread from a sheet, or who knows what, can hook the end of the ring, pull the wire straight in a moment, or worse, pull it out, and then there is nothing to hold the clevis pin in. This happened to me, and I understand from my rigging friends that this is not an uncommon experience for them.
This actually happened this year sailing up Lake Michigan. It was a dark and stormy night, heading north in the open water under a full main and a storm jib. I went forward to do what men do, wrapping my arms around the two baby shrouds and leaning against the masthead shroud. Looking down, as men do, I noticed that a loose thread of the sheet jib for the storm jib (the one that was flapping going down wind) had hooked on to the ring pin for the lower clevis pin on the masthead shroud, and the ring had been pulled straight. As I leaned over to curl it back, the ring pin fell out. I was lucky and hope no one else is less fortunate.
I also had the clevis pin for the topping lift, which was secured by a ring pin, fall out, but I don't know how that happened.