Small can be beautiful
Richard Gadd2023-01-26T09:28:39+00:00Before starting the series of articles on traditional rigs and rigging, I'm going to start by addressing the issue of boat ownership [...]
Before starting the series of articles on traditional rigs and rigging, I'm going to start by addressing the issue of boat ownership [...]
How to deal with masts, their stays and their fittings? I could just do a piece by piece description of the various fittings, [...]
Rigging Loads - or a tale of scientific progress? In which your hero tries to work out the starting point for the design [...]
All Standing - a quick look at standing rigging I reckon that you have by now had your fair share of esoterica, so [...]
The point of this article is to deal with some of the detailed aspects of mast furniture. A few caveats are in order. [...]
Different ships, different saddles In the good old days when gaffs lay at an angle of 45 to 50 degrees to the mast, [...]
Every so often I get an email describing how a gaff saddle I've made isn't working properly – usually because it [...]
The next item on the agenda is booms. Those of you with sprit rigs, bawleys and Drascombes can skip this article with impunity. [...]
The subject of this article is mainsail reefing. I’m just dealing with mainsails because I am still on the subject of booms, in [...]
Blocks and tackles, this time, and I might as well be honest about it. There is not a lot of MacPhail in this [...]