The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

About this book

Combining and updating the renowned Riggers Apprentice and Riggers Locker meets the changing face of modern materials and technology while remaining true to riggings best traditional principles and practices. Its much more than a knot book though the knots a sailor needs are all here. Its a book for sailors who want the satisfaction and hard-cash savings of stepping their own masts inspecting and maintaining their own rigs and turning their own tailsplices and wire eyesplices. It is for boatowners who want to replace an entire gang of rigging themselves--measuring choosing appropriate wire turning soft eyes leathering and serving. It is for bluewater voyagers who want to feel secure in the knowledge that should a shroud carry away far at sea they will be able to repair it. The Complete Riggers Apprentice is also a free-roaming collection of useful ideas and tips on everything from supplementing winches with block and tackle to rigging snubbers at anchor to using pantyhose for an emergency fanbelt. In short its the definitive book on the art of rigging written by its most entertaining practitioner.