How to Replace Your Standing Rigging for Less

How to Replace Your Standing Rigging for Less - The $tingy Sailor

Following are approximate costs per foot (in 2014) for standing rigging from several popular sources compared to the rigging company in my area.

Standing Rigging Replacement - Cruising World

Carefully unpinning one shroud at a time, I tied a tag line through the marine eye fitting and slowly lowered each shroud down to my helper, who ...

Replacing Your Standing Rigging - Step By Step Guide| Jimmy Green

If the mast has to remain stepped, you need a slightly different approach, generally involving the purchase of each wire over-long with the top terminal swaged.

What is the cheapest/easier way to replace the rigging for a 27 feet ...

If you want wire rigging again, I recommend mechanical terminations. I used Sta-Loks on my boat and it went together pretty easy. You can ...

Diy standing rigging replacement | YBW Forum

It is best to send off your old rigging but make sure you lock the screw adjustments on the bottle screws so your new rigging is the correct ...

Replacing standing rigging with mast up - Sailboat Owners Forums

Pull the mast, take the old rigging to the rigger, have the rigger replicate it, install it yourself, step the mast and tune it. All in all, it will be cheaper ...

standing rigging replacement concerns - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

I'd just take the rigging and ship it to a rigger and they'll ship you back the new stuff. I did this with my first monohull and it was an easy ...

Replacing our boats STANDING RIGGING (with no experience!) EP ...

... replacing our Passport 42's standing rigging. In case you don't know what that is, its all of the stainless steel wire cables that hold up our ...

Standing Rigging Replacement | SailNet Community

Take down the wires one or two at a time, cut the wire to the same size, assemble the fittings and reinstall. With practice you can knock out a ...

replacing standing rigging | SailNet Community

If you need to change out the masthead sheaves things get a little more complicated but not much. Price the wire and Norseman terminals if you ...

Replacing standing rigging - Sailing Magazine

On a more holistic scale, look at the rig overall. Check that the wire leads perfectly fair from the mast tang to the chainplate. The backstay ...

Replacing standing rigging w/ boat in water - Sailing Anarchy Forums

You can always unstep the mast with the boat in the water. Tie up next to a dock with a crane, or bring in a mobile crane. Any decent rigger or boatyard can do ...

Replacing Your Standing Rigging - RIGWORKS INC.

The cost to replace standing rigging obviously varies from boat to boat. Give us a call, and we can give you a rough quote. ... A rig inspection ...

#030 DIY guide replace standing rigging - YouTube

This video is a guide to replacing your standing rigging leaving the mast in place. I did this by ascending and descending the mast solo 30 ...

Replacing Standing Rigging on sailboats by Chuck Rose

Drive a nail into the wharf leaving an inch and a half or so sticking up and put the eye of the end fitting over it. Stretch the wire out tightly along the ...

Replacing Your Sailboat Rigging - Cruising World

“That history will affect what kind of life you get out of your standing rigging.” Some insurance companies, he says, will require a re-rig if ...

Replacing our boats STANDING RIGGING (with no experience- eek)

We have known for a while now that our standing rigging was 10+ years old so now we were in Le Marin in Martinique, it was time to replace ...

Pip Hare explains when to check and replace your standing rigging

Using high quality wire rigging from a well known supplier is a bigger initial outlay but the grade of metal used and manufacturing process ...

Standing rigging replacement - EricsonYachts.org

The estimate is in the 10K range which includes removing the mast ( but no hail-out ) . I know this isn't cheap but if you know the 33RH rig , it is a high-end ...

A Step By Step Guide to Replacing All Your Rigging!! - (Episode 222)

... the step by step guide to replacing all of our standing rigging on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, from Sta-loc fittings to tuning ...