Gaffs and their Saddles
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:38:12+01:00Different ships, different saddles In the good old days when gaffs lay at an angle of 45 to 50 degrees to the mast, [...]
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Saddle Issues
Richard Gadd2023-01-26T12:00:16+00:00Every so often I get an email describing how a gaff saddle I've made isn't working properly – usually because it [...]
Boom not Bust
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:28:12+01:00The next item on the agenda is booms. Those of you with sprit rigs, bawleys and Drascombes can skip this article with impunity. [...]
Shortening Sail
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:28:56+01:00The subject of this article is mainsail reefing. I’m just dealing with mainsails because I am still on the subject of booms, in [...]
Using Wykeham-Martin furling gears
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T11:02:58+01:00Using Wykeham-Martin Furling gears - an Unofficial Guide Reefing versus Furling Gears Just in case you get confused, it is probably worth rehearsing [...]
Types of rope
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T11:01:36+01:00Rope makers seem to delight in confusing us with science and/or extraordinary polysyllabic names. Let me try to cut through the guff a [...]
How to adjust your tackle
Richard Gadd2021-05-25T15:18:48+01:00Blocks and tackles, this time, and I might as well be honest about it. There is not a lot of MacPhail in this [...]
Sealing a Plate case
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:54:51+01:00Stooping the slopping when you are motoring It is not often a brainwave occurs, but I had one the other day. My tender - the much [...]
What’s the Gauge of a Woodscrew?
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:53:48+01:00And a scheme for working out the clearance hole Measure the head in sixteenths of an inch, subtract 1 from that answer and [...]
Why put lead in putty?
Richard Gadd2021-05-27T09:52:23+01:00Good Question You put lead into putty if you want to use it as a caulking compound. And then one customer had the [...]