Gaffs and their Saddles

Gaffs and their Saddles

Different ships, different saddles In the good old days when gaffs lay at an angle of 45 to 50 degrees to the mast, [...]

Gaffs and their Saddles2021-05-27T09:38:12+01:00

Saddle Issues

Every so often I get an email describing how a gaff saddle I've made isn't working properly – usually because it [...]

Saddle Issues2023-01-26T12:00:16+00:00

Boom not Bust

The next item on the agenda is booms. Those of you with sprit rigs, bawleys and Drascombes can skip this article with impunity. [...]

Boom not Bust2021-05-27T09:28:12+01:00

Shortening Sail

The subject of this article is mainsail reefing. I’m just dealing with mainsails because I am still on the subject of booms, in [...]

Shortening Sail2021-05-27T09:28:56+01:00

Using Wykeham-Martin furling gears

Using Wykeham-Martin Furling gears - an Unofficial Guide Reefing versus Furling Gears Just in case you get confused, it is probably worth rehearsing [...]

Using Wykeham-Martin furling gears2021-05-27T11:02:58+01:00

Types of rope

Rope makers seem to delight in confusing us with science and/or extraordinary polysyllabic names. Let me try to cut through the guff a [...]

Types of rope2021-05-27T11:01:36+01:00

How to adjust your tackle

Blocks and tackles, this time, and I might as well be honest about it. There is not a lot of MacPhail in this [...]

How to adjust your tackle2021-05-25T15:18:48+01:00

Sealing a Plate case

Stooping the slopping when you are motoring It is not often a brainwave occurs, but I had one the other day. My tender - the much [...]

Sealing a Plate case2021-05-27T09:54:51+01:00

What’s the Gauge of a Woodscrew?

And a scheme for working out the clearance hole Measure the head in sixteenths of an inch, subtract 1 from that answer and [...]

What’s the Gauge of a Woodscrew?2021-05-27T09:53:48+01:00

Why put lead in putty?

Good Question You put lead into putty if you want to use it as a caulking compound. And then one customer had the [...]

Why put lead in putty?2021-05-27T09:52:23+01:00

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