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The number on the top of the winch of my old barients (22) does not work that way. Lot of boats have old barient/barlow winches. The ratio on my barient 22 with a 10 inch handle, is 34:1 or 40.8:1 with a 12inch handle (I have one of each).
Test the shear load strength at both ends simultaneously like how they are meant to work. As designed it is supposed to shear the entire pin diameter at both ends of its hole with side loading. Fatigue and work hardening are two very real things and two very different relations to designs. Guess which one you were testing.
Really love the idea of synthetic rigging. Cost is one thing, but the lessor weight higher on the mast has to be a big change. Hard question, do you know how much of a difference it makes?
When we had steel rigging, the rail was always in the water and sometimes we would heel so far that the deck would go underwater a little bit. When we converted to synthetic, we sail around 10°-15° of heel. We know we have too much sail up and need reef because we reach 20° of heel, at that point the rubrail is still out of the water. In other words, the ballast can do its job at resisting the pressure on the sail and not opposing the weight of the rigging.
Knots are quite fascinating. It is amazing how somthing so flexible as a rope can be turned into such solid structures. The types of knots to accomplish different goals seems endless. In the fire service the old joke was if you can't tie a knot, tie a lot. It is so much prettier and more reliable to donit right. Thanks for a fantastic demo. Absolutely and awesome educational video. ❤❤❤
tbh, I just don't trust Synthetics for Standing Rigging due to Sag, Stretch, shrinkage, and Temperature Sensitivity - though there is possibly a case for it in Sailboat Racing with Classic Masts and the associated Mast Bending - Though for raising and Voyaging Sailboats, with no Racing pretensions, the severity of UV Damage to Sailcloth is now sobad, it makes the protection offered by in Mast Firling an unavoidable necessity, and given that requires the alignment of the top of the Mast to be within an inch of the bottom of the Mast, it rules outMast Bending, and really, the use of Synthetic Stznding Rigging as well, unless you want to be hanging around while it warms up and "normalises". So personally, I'm sticking with Stable, easily adjusted 1x19 Syainless Steel Wire for the foreseeable Future, as a Known Good Produ t, as frankly, I despise the Negative influences Racing is continuing to have on Sailboats, and imho it's as bad now as those that led up to the 1979 Fastnet Race Tragedy - the point at which h I abandoned all ambitions to go Sailboat Racing, and which ultimately .Ed to me e en seeing Circumnavigations as totally pointless, and which resulted in a switch to Destinations worth visiting as Sailing Targets, which removed Timing Pressures from each Voyage. "Having To" get to Point X by "Time Z" is what seems to Continuously Drop Sailboats and those on board them into extreme difficulties as badly as "Needing To" Stay in a very Exposed Place for whatever reason. I "Needed To" get to a specific place ASAP to pick up a Cruising Licence, and it required me to do a night transit of New York Harbour in order to get to the target Anchorage to collect it in the Morning, and that Lost me my Boat, as I ran into the Wrecking Gang Working the Harbour. So Beware of Tifht Schedules, as Risks may be far higher than you expect. Best Wishes. Bob. 🤔🌟🌟👍❤️
Awesomesauce! Thank you so much for documenting and sharing your knowledge and experiences. I switched to Dyneema rigging earlier this last season using much of your information. The only thing I still need to improve is the soft shackles used as hanks for the staysail. They occasionally tangle of black much up the chafe sleeve. For the rest of the shrouds I plan to go old school and add service. Thanks again, much appreciated
As you know, I am a huge fan of Dyneema as it is an incredible material. I have many concerns with using it in that application as it really isn’t the best tool for the job. I’ve seen it done but have not liked what I have seen so far of it. On Windpuff, we will be playing around with carbon fiber for some of the chainplates, but not Dyneema for the attachment to the hull.
Hi Herby, thank you for another informative video. I've been following your channel since 2017. Good staff !! Learn a lot from you along the way. Wondering if you ever considered publish few digital books in related topics? Such library could be helpful for the fellow sailors, and could become your legacy eventually. Easier for the followers to reach specific topic thank search through all videos. Suggestion: "Synthetic Rigging" could be an obvious topic, "Step-by-step transfer a sailboat diesel engine to electrical", "Preparation on the Atlantic Crossing" could be few other topics. Few bucks on the extra incoming as well.
I am actually in the process of writing a book on rigging (it will include synthetic rigging in there) for a publishing company. I’m more than halfway through the first draft and then begins the editing process. I hope it will be in print during 2025 😎 I like the other topics for follow up books!
You can, but on our situation each turnbuckle cost $100 and we would need 12 of them. Not using turnbuckles, I was able to rerig in synthetic for $4,400. Using turnbuckles would have bumped that price point up to $5,600 which was outside of our budget at that time. We have had them for 9 years and they have worked well, they are just very tedious to adjust as you can see. If you can afford turnbuckles: yes! If you can’t afford turnbuckles: this is an option.
@@RiggingDoctor I can imagine a couple of challenges with turnbuckles: there is a maximum amount that you can tension each one, and that theoretical amount relies on a shroud length that is perfectly measured and spliced. Have you measured the distance that each shroud lengthens as you tighten them on the winch?
Great video as always. I sold my big 40 foot boat and bought a westerly nomad..I should get it Tuesday if all goes well. Is it worth going with synthetic rigging on a small boat with a mast on a tabernacle?
Absolutely! Those boats benefit the most from synthetic. Having a tabernacle means that you can lower the mast with ease. When the mast comes down, synthetic rigging will just come down easily with the mast, without kinking or rubbing hard on the deck. The weight savings is also greatly felt as more of the ballast can work on resisting the wind instead of righting the weight of the rigging. The important thing you want to have are spreaders that go straight out to the side. If you have aft swept spreaders (15° or more swept aft) you want to stay with steel, if you have straight lateral spreaders, then you can enjoy the simplicity of synthetic rigging.
@@RiggingDoctor Thanks 😁. It was built in the late 60s, I'm positive they're straight. Great information, I'll switch over when I replace the rigging 🙂
This all looks time consuming, but really simple! Only question I have is how do you actually measure the tension? Is there a particular line you use a traditional Loos on?
I don’t use a Loos gauge. If I really need to know the tension, I use the Folding Rule Method. With lateral spreaders (as opposed to aft swept spreaders) the absolute rig tension is less important and all you need to do is make it tight enough to hold the mast in column while on a close reach with full sail in 20 knots of breeze. If you find that the mast is not in column, simply give the offending stay a little more tension. I ended up having to tighten the cap shrouds two more times to finally get the perfect tension that would keep the mast in column when sailing in both tacks. You can use measuring devices which have error in their measurements or you can go by feel and then adjust as needed. (If you have aft swept spreaders, you need to use a measurement method because the rig has a minimum rig tension that it must achieve or the mast can break).
Nice that you captured the sound of a coral actually sounds like. Maddie you need to stop bending your knees when you're using your fins. It's the small fish that are hard to find and capture especially seahorses
Thanks! Maddie is still learning how to snorkel. I grew up snorkeling so it feels great to finally capture in video what I love to look at in the water.
Actually there's more than one blue hole in Santa Rosa New Mexico. It is very deep but very clean and at the very bottom is an entrance to a cave. The water is probably coming from the ogallala aquifer
He took our dinghy to shore during a storm when we told him it was too dangerous and we didn’t hear from him for over 24 hours. He was getting high with the locals. He destroyed the outboard. It also turned out he had no idea what he was doing and crash jibed us, almost taking my head off.
@@RiggingDoctor I could tell that he was a different type person than you are. Hopefully he'll find a boat that's more his kind. I'm on find a crew but I am probably not a good crew member. Not because I don't understand because I did sail 40 years ago so I know a little. But I am overweight and out of shape. And I've never been on the bigger boats the boats I sailed were tiny little boats. And so I'm not so sure that I would make a good crew member. I do own a Catalina 22 but have not been out in it yet. I'm sort of fixing it up with the attempt to gain a little bit of strength and lose a little bit of weight. I would love to take it out but I need help to do that and to be honest I would need somebody who knows what they're doing. Thank you for your videos. I get to live vicariously through them and it gives me encouragement to keep trying on my boat and it gets me through a day. I love that you two are nerdy like me. I too am quite naive when it comes to the world even though I am fairly educated. I have my degree in computer science and computer engineering and I had a career in computer engineering but I didn't do so well because I was socially awkward. I don't think you're as socially awkward as I am but you're close enough. I definitely enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Too difficult to understand and comprehend what the owner was discussing.... more detailed explanations of various facts regarding ferro cement would be far more helpful. Perfect opportunity to glean so much more info from a man who owns a ferrocement boat!
I have been watching tons of videos on people sailing and doing refits and stuff like that and I've seen both after boat come out of the water covered with barnacles and stuff and yet not yours it looks like that copper paint really did work. Is it a lot more expensive is that why people don't do it normally
Nice bend technique…. Curious what kinda torque those bolts need? Those cheap torque wrenches are actually pretty good. The difference in accuracy between expensive torque wrench generally negligible.
Enjoying your vids. May I comment that when laying up glass like that it’s best to minimize air between layers. Usually with a metal roller to really consolidate and get a good lamination. In instances where the layers are placed under a compression load the gaps between layers can move in and cause delaminating…. …like your style;
I noticed that Maddie said that had she come before the boat that she would have never agreed to the boat. Also when Herbie said he was going to tell examples of the negatives Maddie was like what are you going to tell them. That look of preparing for the worst was funny.
