Marlingspike skills have so many ways of being expressed. Here are two of my favorite recent examples, and one … not so much. First, the…
Handwork
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Blending the ageless wisdom of traditional rigging with modern applications and materials.
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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…
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New/Old While in Sausalito recently, I visited the brigantine Matthew Turner , where a largely volunteer crew — directed and trained by professionals — is putting…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…