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  1. What is Sailboat Rigging?

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  2. Sailboat Rigging: Part 2

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  3. Rigging for beginners # 1. Sailboat rigging explained from standing rigging to running rigging

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  4. J/105 Sailboat Parts, Rigging and Accessories

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  5. Sailboat Parts Explained: Illustrated Guide (with Diagrams)

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  6. Sailboat Rigging: Part 2

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VIDEO

  1. Sailing

  2. Five Minute Install for Smart Tanks

  3. Revealing the Mast

  4. HOW WE RIG OUR BOAT: A step by step guide. Ep 22

  5. J Boats 40 years with Rod Johnstone

  6. #50: Rig Quotes and Wrong Notes

COMMENTS

  1. Rod Rigging

    Rod Rigging. By The Rigging Company February 20, 2015. In the world of sailboat standing rigging there are three common materials used, stainless steel wire, Nitronic 50 rod, and various types of synthetic fibers, which are becoming more and more popular. I want to talk today about Nitronic 50 stainless steel rod.

  2. Wire Rigging Vs. Synthetic Rigging Vs. Rod Rigging

    It lasts not as long as rod, but longer than synthetics. It also is the stretchiest and most elastic of the three choices and therefore offers the lowest performance. ROD RIGGING: Although wire rigging is the oldest of all three, Nitronic 50 (XM-19) rod rigging has also been around a long time in the sailing world.

  3. How to Rerig a C&C with Rod Rigging

    Rod vs Wire. Most C&C's have Navtec rod rigging instead of the more common stranded wire rigging. Rod rigging is awesome when you don't need to replace any of it. It's strong, long lasting, highly corrosion resistant, lightweight (less weight aloft improves boat handling) and has low stretch (which makes the boat sail a bit better, and ...

  4. How to tension your yacht's rig with wire or rod rigging

    Begin with a minimum tension in the wire. Mark off a 2m length of the shroud on one side of the boat using the shroud terminal for reference. Measure the elastic extension (f) of the measured length as the rigging screws are alternately tightened, little by little. Stop when f = 3mm. (4mm on fractional rigs with aft swept spreaders).

  5. Rod Rigging

    Spars, Rigging, and Hardware for Sailboats. Rig-Rite, Inc. Phone: (001) 401-739-1140 -- FAX: (001) 401-739-1149 www.RigRite.com Ordering/Questions: ... Rod Rigging Industry standard Rod Rigging is cold-drawn to size from Nitronic 50 (22-13-5) stainless alloy. The cold drawing process produces rod with approximately 200,000-psi ultimate tensile ...

  6. Winds of Change: Rod Rigging Functionality, Interchangability, and

    Wire offers excellent value, longevity and availability the world over. A significant majority of sailboats still have wire rigging. Rod rigging generally offers some better performance characteristics, and can be seen on a variety of boats, like many J/Boats, C&C, Beneteau, Waterline, Sabre, and Valiant Yachts, as well as custom racers and ...

  7. Rod Rigging

    Large diameters and in-house rod heading available. Please call or email [email protected] for details. Features. Nitronic 50 Straightened Rod. High Strength and Low Stretch. Highly Polished for Marine Use. Solid Strand Stainless Steel. R505-004. Nitronic -4 Straightened Round Rod.

  8. Replacing Your Sailboat Rigging

    Good question. Yes, doing it yourself will theoretically save money. For an average 40-foot boat, Cockerill estimates about $100 per foot to re-rig with wire rigging ($4,000), as well as the round-trip cost to haul and launch the boat and unstep and step the rig (an additional $2,500 or so).

  9. Boat Rigging: A Comprehensive Guide to Ensure Smooth Sailing

    06. 2024. In the world of sailing, boat rigging plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety, efficiency, and performance of your vessel. From standing rigging to sail rigging types, it's essential to understand the intricacies of rigging a yacht to embark on smooth sailing adventures. In this comprehensive guide, we'll dive into the nuances of ...

  10. Know-how: Modern Rigs 101

    Standing rigging is the collective term for the system of wires (or rods) that supports the mast, both fore-and-aft and laterally. Lateral stays are known as shrouds and each has its own name (see diagram). ... The deceptive simplicity of the typical sailboat rig can lead to a kind of benign neglect on the part of the boat owner. Since so many ...

  11. Standing Rigging (or 'Name That Stay')

    A sailboat's standing rigging is generally built from wire rope, rod, or occasionally a super-strong synthetic fibered rope such as Dyneema ®, carbon fiber, kevlar or PBO. 1×19 316 grade stainless steel Wire Rope (1 group of 19 wires, very stiff with low stretch) is standard on most sailboats. Wire rope is sized/priced by its diameter which ...

  12. Practical Sailor Test Boat Gets Half a Refit With Powerlite PBO Rigging

    Stainless steel rod as a rigging material saw limited availability after World War II, and it wasnt until the late 1960s that a new company entered the marine field and began offering stainless steel rod rigging for the general sailing public. Navtec Corp. began manufacturing round rod rigging from a high-grade stainless steel called Nitronic 50.

  13. Sailboat Rigging: Part 2

    Turnbuckles, or rigging screws or bottlescrews, are stainless steel devices that enables the shroud tension to be adjusted. Next: Part 2 - Running Rigging. It can all be a bit baffling at first, sailboat rigging. Cap shrouds, intermediates, aft and forward lowers, sheets, halyards, topping lifts, downhauls, outhauls, kicking straps, reefing ...

  14. rod rigging replacement

    The upside though is at 8 years you don't replace the while system, just the rope, the fittings since they are aluminium can be replaced forever. So the rerig at 8 years is more like $200. This is why a lot of new performance boats are switching to Dynex rigging.

  15. Standing Rigging: How Tight Is Right?

    Standing rigging tension is a peculiarly under-addressed subject. Easy to see how it would worry a new boat owner or someone going to sea. Most experts step aboard, yank or twang the shrouds and stays and mutter, Pretty slack, Too Tight, or, Thats about right. Youll find in the sailing literature very few discussions of the question: What does ...

  16. Stainless Steel Rigging

    Stress on rod rigging is concentrated at the rod head, which eventually suffers invisible cracks. Without disassembling the rig, failure is difficult to predict. In wire rigging, the stainless wire is subject to stress and fatiguing every time the boat rolls which, over a 10-year average lifespan, adds up to literally millions of stresses on ...

  17. Inspecting Sailboat Rigging

    If there's one thing production sailboats have in common, it's that nearly all of them use stainless-steel standing rigging, whether wire or rod. There are likely also stainless steel fittings, chainplates and turnbuckles. Stainless steel is a great material for rigging but has its Achilles heel: corrosion.

  18. Cruising Sailboat Standing Rigging Inspection

    Replacement Cycle. Wire standing rigging on an offshore cruising boat should be replaced every 10 years, or 30,000 miles, whichever comes first. The time requirement is because wire is more prone to corrosion than rod (see below).

  19. Screw-on Rigging Terminals

    We frequently field questions regarding the reliability of rod rigging and fiber rigging. Rod rigging makes sense on race boats. And on a performance at-all-cost, ultralight displacement boat (ULDB) with carbon spars, fiber-rigging fits the bill. But for long-term, long-distance cruisers, conventional stainless-steel 1×19 wire or more costly ...

  20. Rig-Rite Inc.

    RIG-RITE stocks the largest variety of related Systems and Hardware available anywhere, Specializing in original replacement parts for Systems on yachts built the world over. Spars - Masts, Booms, Spreaders, Spinnaker Poles, Sheaves, and related Hardware. Rigging - Turnbuckles, Toggles, Wire & Rod Components, Norseman Cones & Fittings.

  21. Standing rigging

    Standing rigging comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails. This term is used in contrast to running rigging, which represents the moveable elements of rigging which adjust the position and shape of the sails.

  22. Product Review: 3-Rod Kite Fishing Rod Holder with Rigging Tray

    The only thing Capt. Tommy Buskirk didn't like about his last fillet/bait table was that it took up a valuable rod holder. The Beaufort, South Carolina, inshore and nearshore charter captain frequently takes groups of four to six anglers on his spacious 25-foot C-Hawk, so he likes to have a lot of baits in the water — and that requires a lot of rod holders.