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…
The Rigging Puzzle: Crossed (Pad)Eyes
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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
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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
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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…