Dyneema rigging

New Video: Fitting our DIY Mizzen Tangs and more

Dave Warnock

08 Oct 2024

Our latest video is out: "Fitting our DIY Mast Tangs for Dyneema rigging, + the mast foot + painting Mast bits".

At last, we have fitted the DIY mast tangs

We refitted the mast foot too!

Also refitted the reinforcement plates for the mast tang bolts.

And we finished painting the mizzen mast, it's spreaders, boom and the main mast spreaders.

If you want to see the video where we created this Tangs (our 3rd design iteration) then:

Preparing to move aboard

Acting now to avoid chaos for moving onboard day.

Blog has moved and is back again

So this blog is no longer on Wordpress.com We are now hosted by Magicpages.co using Ghost. Nearly all the original content has been transferred. The only gap I know of at the moment is that the old comments are no longer visible, but I hope to bring them

Back at stretching dyneema rigging

Jane has finished the first 8 chainplate loops in 12mm dyneema for the main mast (we don't need one for the forestay and the inner forestay will be different). Plus she has finished 3.5 of the 4 lower shrouds (also 12mm dyneema). So we are back to

Huge changes coming

For once a title like this is not exaggeration and it's not click bait. We are very close to moving to love (nope, I'm not going to correct that typo ;) ) on the boat full-time (current expectation is for 5 years). Jane finished her job at the

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Preparing to move aboard

Blog has moved and is back again

Back at stretching dyneema rigging

Huge changes coming