Standing Rigging - resources for cruising sailors

Standing Rigging Storage

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Detailed Maintenance How-To By Jerry Hammill
Standing Rigging Storage

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]
- The online article: rigging maintenance

Self-amalgamating Tape Test

[Offline]

Comparative Tests

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]
- Preview the Practical Sailor back issue

New Swageless Fitting Shows Promise

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Comparative Tests By Bill Sandifer

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]
- A new swageless

Traditional bronze hardware

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Manufacturer

Bronze shackle blocks, cheek blocks, beckets, stemhead plates, chocks, gooseneck, pintle/gudgeons, and other items.

[Pert Lowell Co., Inc., Newbury, MA, USA]
- The Pert Lowell hardware

Viadana standing rigging hardware

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Manufacturer Viadana standing rigging hardware

Wide range of turnbuckles, U-bolts, stay adjustors, thimbles, and sleeves. Designs primarily for smaller boats.

[Viadana, Bellano, Italy]
- The Viadana rigging hardware

Tarred twine

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Manufacturer and on-line retailer Tarred twine

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]
- See the products

Johnson hardware

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Manufacturer Johnson hardware

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]
- See the products
- N.American distributors

Quick Attach rigging fittings

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Manufacturer Quick Attach rigging fittings

Stainless eyes, jaws, toggles, and other swage terminals for shroud and lifeline ends.

[Suncor Stainless, Inc., Plymouth, MA, USA]
- The Suncor swage fittings
- Downloadable Suncor catalog

LanoCote

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Manufacturer LanoCote

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]
- Lanocote corrosion control
- Worldwide Forespar agents

Holt rigging hardware

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Manufacturer Holt rigging hardware

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 Holt hardware

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