The sailors among you will recognize the name Larry Pardey. He and his wife Lin spent decades sailing all over the world, in wooden sailboats…
Larry Pardey Memorial Observatory
Posted in Marvels
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“Falling” Format News
Posted in Books, and Uncategorized
Here is a special announcement, for subscribers to my blog. I wanted all of you to hear it first. It has taken some time to…
Crossed (Pad)Eyes, The Winner!
Posted in Puzzle
It is time to announce the winner of our most recent Rigging Puzzle. But first I’ll mention that if you’d like to see previous puzzles,…
The Rigging Puzzle: Crossed (Pad)Eyes
Posted in Puzzle
There’s lots going on at briontoss.com. Scroll to the bottom of this page for details. The Rigging Puzzle this time is about padeyes, and how to…
Sweating the Fall Things, the Winners!
Posted in Puzzle
In our most recent puzzle, we asked how much additional tension our rigger Julia Briggs could apply to a line by “sweating” it sideways.…
Sweating the Fall Things, a Rigging Puzzle
Posted in Puzzle, and Rigging News
Sailors and other rope users are familiar with the process of sweating or swigging up a line: pulling sharply sideways on the fall of a…
Handwork
Posted in Rigging News
Marlingspike skills have so many ways of being expressed. Here are two of my favorite recent examples, and one … not so much. First, the…
Falling, my new book, was intended to be just an e-book, but my spouse Christian loves actual books, so she went out and had a…
New/Old, Semi-Old, and Very New
Posted in Rigging News
New/Old While in Sausalito recently, I visited the brigantine Matthew Turner , where a largely volunteer crew — directed and trained by professionals — is putting…
Aloft in a Loft
Posted in Rigging News
In our most recent rigging workshop one of our students, the estimable Scot Jones, of Monterey Boatworks, took a video of the going-aloft lecture. Typically,…