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Don’t neglect your rigging!
I saw this at the harbor today. The rigger who has been working with me on RUBY said this was likely due to a starboard upper swage fitting failure. This is less common with rod rigging. It seems this break must have occurred without the main hoisted. I see a lot of vessels flying a…
Rigging Service
Gilles Combrisson has nearly finished the rigging work. The only thing remaining for this phase of work is to run the main sail reefing lines and to tune the rig. We may service a few winches over the next few months, too. Work accomplished includes: New forestay and backstay New furling drum New rod rigging,…
Cockpit Navigation Displays….and more.
I did not retain any photographs of the two triton displays affixed to a wooden board attached to the fore wall of the cockpit as it was when we took delivery of S/V Ruby. It was not to our liking and under representative of our needs in this age when paper charts are vanishingly rare.…
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