Dyneema rigging

New video "What do we need to do to get our Mizzen Mast up?"

Dave Warnock

17 Aug 2024

Our latest video is published :-)

Our next big task, one we need to do before winter, is to get our Mizzen mast up.

We haven't touched it for a long while, so couldn't remember quite where we had got to and where everything was.

Several years ago we pretty comprehensively stripped the mast of fittings and primed, undercoated and top coated it with International Perfection.
We had got partway through wiring it for AIS and WiFi, then someone damaged it. Now it is repaired it is time to get ready to put it up.

The rigging is going to be all new and all DIY - Acetal Tangs, Dyneema Shrouds, Dyneema Chainplates, FR4 backing plates etc.

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