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Tips for maintaining your rigging while the mast is up, inspecting the rig off-season, and storing shrouds and stays when the mast is out of the boat.
[SailNet, 16 October 2001]
Stretch this tape as you wrap it, and it bonds to itself. PS tested tapes from Mariner′s Choice, Navtec, Simpson Lawrence, Tommy Tape, and West Marine.
[Practical Sailor, 1 April 2003]
Load testing results of the Suncor Quick Attach swageless fitting against Norseman and Sta-Lok. The Quick Attach is just that (the wire does not have to be unlaid, no cone to be inserted, and no bending of the wire over the cone) but is it strong enough?
[Good Old Boat, March 2000]
Bronze shackle blocks, cheek blocks, beckets, stemhead plates, chocks, gooseneck, pintle/gudgeons, and other items.
[Pert Lowell Co., Inc., Newbury, MA, USA]
Wide range of turnbuckles, U-bolts, stay adjustors, thimbles, and sleeves. Designs primarily for smaller boats.
[Viadana, Bellano, Italy]
A full-service rigging loft sells tarred seine twine (Marline). "The ideal string: chafe-resistant, weather resistant, non-slip" for seizing, lanyards, lashings, serving, etc. Comes in five weights.
[Brion Toss Yacht Riggers, Port Townsend, WA, USA]
All kinds of turnbuckles including backstay/inner forestay turnbuckles, quick release levers, plus split backstay adjustors, pins, plates, padeyes, rings, and lots more of the myriad things your rig is made of.
[C. Sherman Johnson Co., Inc., East Haddam, CT, USA]
Stainless eyes, jaws, toggles, and other swage terminals for shroud and lifeline ends.
[Suncor Stainless, Inc., Plymouth, MA, USA]
Effective in preventing and stopping corrosion on all types of metals under all environmental conditions. Penetrates, displaces water, and forms a moisture barrier. Useful at swages, threads and other corrosion-prone crevices.
[Forespar Products Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA]
Wide range of running and standing rigging hardware. By and large, products are for one-design racers, but small cruising boats will find suitable gear here.
[Jack Holt Ltd., Lynden, Ontario, Canada]
The standing rigging is not an area of the boat where guess-work or aesthetics pay dividends; we need to be talking engineering here.
Moray MacPhail
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