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…
Sweating the Fall Things, a Rigging Puzzle
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Category: Rigging News
News-to-know on matters rigging-related.
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…
New/Old, Semi-Old, and Very New
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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…
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…
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…