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 [...]
Staying put – How do masts do it?
Richard Gadd2021-05-25T16:28:53+01:00How to deal with masts, their stays and their fittings? I could just do a piece by piece description of the various fittings, [...]
Rigging Loads
Richard Gadd2021-05-25T16:31:03+01:00Rigging Loads - or a tale of scientific progress? In which your hero tries to work out the starting point for the design [...]
Standing Rigging
Richard Gadd2021-05-25T16:47:06+01:00All Standing - a quick look at standing rigging I reckon that you have by now had your fair share of esoterica, so [...]
Mast Furniture
Richard Gadd2021-05-25T16:22:53+01:00The point of this article is to deal with some of the detailed aspects of mast furniture. A few caveats are in order. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]