New/Old While in Sausalito recently, I visited the brigantine Matthew Turner , where a largely volunteer crew — directed and trained by professionals — is putting…
New/Old, Semi-Old, and Very New
Posted in Rigging News
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Aloft in a Loft
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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,…
Keeping the Gift Moving
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Maritime artisans are a fortunate lot in general; we get to sail in and work on beautiful vessels, and to practice the elegant, intricate arts…
Rigging Workshop!
Posted in Seminars
If you ever come to one of our 3-day rigging workshops, you will at some point find yourself passing lengths of rope around the room.…
Heaving
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Hi All, Most of the time we use turnbuckles for tensioning standing rigging, and block-and-tackle and/or winches for running rigging, but handwork for fabrication often…
Variety is the Splice of Life
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You never know what kind of boat is going to show up in front of our shop. Last month it was a great big steel…
Three Sheets Northwest, a delightful and widely read online sailing magazine, has just published an enthusiastic review of my ebook, Falling. So it’s not just me…
Our New Rigger
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Hi, The days of large crews are in the past for me, but we still work on quite a few rigs, and we still work…
Falling, my e-book about life aloft is finally out, so it is time to share some of the kind words that other authors are saying about…
“Falling” Drops on the Seventh!
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Hello all, My new e-book, Falling, is about working aloft. It features true stories about bungy jumping, industrial rigging, parachuting, sailing vessels, and more, and you can…