The Yacht Rigger

During a recent inspections the shackle pins have worked themselves out of the thread, so routine checks of your rigging components are essential to avoid incidents occurring

Yes folks that is a crack 130 mm long and 3 mm wide at the forestay tang, pre purchase rigging inspections are a must!

A recent rig inspection and tune in Townsville Marina on a fabulous carbon fibre rotating mast on a beautiful catamaran

Moody sky during this in step of Fusion 40 mast and boom for a re rig

A customer asked for new Outhaul on their catamaran and I noticed this cracked shackle during the replacement, replaced with a soft shackle

New furler install had a custom SS insert machined up to address the wear from the 12.5 mm pin in a 22 mm hole from the previous furler. The whipping thread was only for back up so I didn’t drop the bush into the water was pulled through after install

Some sneaky cracks discovered in todays rigging inspection

Rig inspection today revealed some issues that left unchecked have the potential to become a real problem for the intended offshore crossing to New Caledonia

Replaced twisted bearing and broken foil today on the Harken MKIV furler.

Some very lucky people not to have this rig come down after a night passage heading south #

A blustery day working on this rotating carbon fibre mast at loving what I do monohull catamaran

It’s so nice when you receive an email from happy customers, I really appreciate the work, and value the trust people put in me to get things right.

Rig inspection in Bundaberg this morning early love what you do, and found both upper shrouds have broken strands the port one is still tucked under swage but Starboard Is obvious

Replaced shroud backing plates on both lowers today see if you can spot the crack in the original

Rig inspections uncover hidden defect before they become a real issue, this little crack was hidden by tea leaf staining after a little clean there it was!

Mast off Dufour 29 prepared for re right and stepping mast soon and re rig in the water on a Adams 36 today

Found a few items of concern today’s rig inspection crack, corrosion and broken strand #

Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life - a bit of a zephyr during a recent rig inspection at Newport Marina

One of the 2 rigs I removed today ready for a full re rig and some new halyards

Not to often you start a rig inspection and come across 2 broken lowers

Back at it today found a sneaky crack on the swage on a back stay

Rigging inspection today, the new owner purchased this vessel without a rigging inspection!

Hey guys just letting you know that some dirt bag has copied my page and may send you a message it’s not me thanks the real yacht rigger

Rig Inspection on FP ISLA 40 Catamaran

Main halyard change over this morning on a 450 Lagoon catamaran which is part of the at

Some things are easy to spot !! A bit of spreader damage discovered today on a monohull

Focus on the small details during a rig inspection

Rigging inspection not hard to spot the issue here!

Rig Inspection Hunter 41 Today

Starting to make our way south today departing Gladstone Marina bound for Pancake Creek