Sailboat rigging YouTube Videos
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Salt & Tar: Ep.178- The Art of Lashing
Lashing, serving, leathering, hole drilling, and wiring! Michael's still here helping us serve and leather our various chafe points in the rigging. Garrett lashes our solar array into place atop the davits while I catch up on a little souping/brightwork. W...
Salt & Tar: Ep.169- Another Sail!
Excited to get another sail we jump into getting the changes on the mizzen boom and gaff done. The episode leaves us watching paint and soup dry. Can’t wait to mount the davits and absolutely can’t wait to get every sail fully rigged up! Leave a comm...
Salt & Tar: Ep.156- Gaff Rebuild
Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as we...![Mast Wedges | Sailing Wisdom [How To]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/uD5yuGcwvqU/sddefault.webp)
Mast Wedges | Sailing Wisdom [How To]
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/riggingdoctor09211 What are Mast Wedges and WHY do you need them? Mast wedges are a critical component on a keel stepped sailboat and add incredible stiffn...
Salt & Tar: Ep.137- Belay Me, Honey
Thanks for watching everyone! ~Ruthie p.s. if you’re near the SF Bay Area and would like to volunteer you can reach us here: saltandtarcrew@gmail.com. Let us know your experience and what you’re comfortable doing. We’ll get back to you as soon as we...
Salt & Tar: Ep.135- Inspired by Norwegian Rescue Boats
Colin Archer designed Norwegian Rescue Boats are a thing of beauty. The oldest, built in 1893, is still sailing today! https://www.colinarcher.no/ Originally, we were going to use dead eyes for our mizzen shrouds (and may still in the future) but are takin...![[How to] Make a Dyneema Deadeye | Sailing Wisdom](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/9-4AYV7jKRA/maxresdefault.webp)
[How to] Make a Dyneema Deadeye | Sailing Wisdom
This is my own invention and allows you to make a rope ring, called a grommet, out of Dyneema using a Möbius Brummell Splice. Follow along as I teach you step by step how to make this yourself. Using this, you will then be able to make deadeyes to hold ...
James of SV Triteia talks about Rigging Fittings for a Sailboat – Nicopress, Swage, Stalok
Episode #177 : DIY RIGGING On this Episode we talk about the different types of fittings for a sailboats standing rigging when using 1x19 SS wire rope. I show you how StaLok fittings work and their benefits for a DIY refit and for use in repairs at sea....
Salt & Tar: Ep 119- Our First Volunteers
Thanks to our followers we are taking final measurements for our sails and welcome our first volunteers. Josh & Alexis are amazing people. They ended up staying 10 days as Josh was determined to hear that motor roar! We can’t thank them enough for no...
Sail Life – Standing rigging & working on the engine – DIY project.
This week in my sailboat project I got the first quote for new standing rigging. This week I also sent out the old bow roller to have a new one made and last but not least working on getting the engine running again. 00:00 Bow roller 02:30 Standing riggi...
Salt & Tar: Episode 97-Power to the Versatile Sailor
Rigger, Electrician, Painter, or Plumber sometimes all 4 at once. We complete almost everything on the list for the mizzen mast until we get a late-season shower. If you're going to build a boat you better be tough and learn to adapt. We move inside the bo...
Salt & Tar: Episode 91-Brummel Splice for the Bottom Dead Eye
Come join us back on the boat as we continue our rigging. Our main focus is how we're going to secure the bottom dead eye to the chainplate. Instead of a metal strap or bar we're mixing in some modern material. Layering up Dyneema then serving it together ...
Salt & Tar: Episode 90-Turning Dead Eyes
Keeping to our salty vision we turn up our dead eyes. We are a gaff rig ketch so we couldn't very well have turnbuckles, we NEED dead eyes. This video spans over a year and two different cameras so, apologies, the sound was difficult to get right on the ep...
Salt & Tar: Episode 85-Four Shrouds, Four Days (Part 2)
-Yup! Days 3 and 4 were much quicker. We managed to also take a day off and enjoy a sundowner dinghy ride. A few discoveries of what you can find in the Napa River occur and we are days away from being able to step the mast. One more episode to go before t...