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A friend of mine's father bought a sailboat. We couldn't sail it home, old rigging and inexperienced crew(me). We had a great time motoring it home. Except for the sandbars, beware.
The DonJon Marine Company is rigging the sunken decommissioned Staten Island Ferry Gov. Herbert H. Lehman to lift her of the bottom due to unknown sinking in early March. She is docked in Newburgh, NY on the Hudson River.
From Wikipedia: Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast. While we did not lose the mast, we lost the Traveller that helps to control the boom and mainsail. we still finished the raceday, adding points to our competition total.
The last Santa Fe steel signal bridge in Southern California is seen here being rigged for demolition. The bridge was torch cut off its foundation shortly after this photo and lowered to the ground for scrapping.
Glancing at the rigging on the Manitou it is easy to become quickly overwhelmed by the seemingly endless amounts of lines and fabric suspended above your head.
Set a sail of Cutter. Preparing the launch to Subic Bay, Philippine. In the Outward Bound School in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. March 05
The stage rigging from the last time the Opera House was still in place, but it was most likely removed and replaced before re-opening as rigging has moved from hemp ropes to nylon.
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It took me half a day to get all this stuff rigged up to support my tarp. No sailing for awhile on my boat. I have a broken chain-plate. I am going to Key West on the 19th of May to help a friend sail his boat to the Rio.
DIY's Skills Class on rigging yielded some fun photos. The guy in the rigging is instructor Mike Meer, of Southbound Cruising Services. The location is Port Annapolis Marina. Photos by Glen Justice.
To read more about the class, go to www.DIY-Boat.com.
Making these tiny rigging blocks seemed like 'eternity'...Approximately 465 blocks were used to complete this build.
•Engine compartment was painted with epoxy IMRON bright white paint (8/2013)
•Engine Mounts: Solid engine mounts, powder coated candy apple blue with Stainless hardware (8/2013)
•Fuel Bladders: NEW Fuel Safe 220 gallon bladders(7/2012). Much higher quality reinforced material than ATL cheaper bladders. Also, coated in special ethanol resistant coating with life expectancy of 10 years. Bladder compartment was totally refinished with rubber buna-n fuel proof foam to protect bladders and prevent any pre-mature bladder leaks from improper installation. Coated with low permeation coating to eliminate any fuel smells.
•Batteries: 3 x New Optima blue top salad batteries(2/2012). 1 x stereo, 2 x for engines. Custom installed hidden trickle charger for all three with easy access flush mount 110V port.(7/2012) Billet battery brackets powder coated candy apple blue (8/2013)
•Sea Strainer: Extra Large Sea Strainer with filter screen. Powder coated candy apple blue (8/2013), standard hose connection for flushing system
•Hoses: All freshwater & bilge hoses replaced. (8/2013)
Built in 1921, the Sedov is the largest traditional tall ship in the world. See www.sedov.info/
The picture was taken on its visit to Emden, Ostfriesland, Germany.
Rigging of Passat, Lübeck-Travemünde, Hanseatic City Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Passat (Link in German!) is a four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners of the shipping company F. Laeisz of Hamburg, Germany, launched in 1911 by Blohm & Voss shipyard. Today it is a museum ship, a venue and a landmark of Lübeck-Travemünde.
On October 1, 2012 I spent an interesting day out at the Marin Headlands watching the ingenious riggers of the Bigge Crane & Rigging Company move a 16” gun up the hill to Battery Townsley. Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands and Battery Davis on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach were the two Bay Area batteries armed (of four planned) with 16” guns in World War II. Each battery had two gun emplacements within a huge concrete construction housing guns, munition storage, generators, and in the case of Townsley up to 150 resident troops.
Battery Townsley received its two guns in 1939 and was ready for action soon thereafter. Placing the guns was no small feat since they are the largest rifles ever made for the US arsenal. Each barrel weighed almost a quarter-million pounds and stretched 68 feet from breech to muzzle. The battery was decommissioned as an artillery emplacement by 1948 and its guns were cut up for scrap in that year.
Fast-forward to the current day, the Marin Headlands are now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and visitors can take a short hike up the hill to see Battery Townsley. For several years now a group of park volunteers has been restoring the battery. If you time your visit to coincide with their open house days you can tour the interior of the installation – great fun. As part of this restoration project a plan was developed to install and display a surplus naval gun nearly identical to the guns originally mounted at Battery Townsley. The surplus gun was sourced from the Naval Weapons Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada where it had been stored since 1953. In one of those pleasant little turns of history the company that won the modern day bid to move the barrel from Nevada to the Marin Headlands was Bigge, the same company that moved the original guns in 1939.
These photographs were taken during a pleasant day watching the crew methodically move this huge gun up the hill and into its storage place next to the battery. I began the day with a series of pole photographs of the gun in the Rodeo Beach parking lot (there was no wind in the morning). In the early afternoon I shot a quick round of kite aerial photographs at Rodeo Beach, the gun was still at the Rodeo Beach trailhead while transport hydraulics were tuned. I then hiked up to Battery Townsley to photograph the placement of the gun. I had originally planned to shoot a quick series of the gun being pulled through one of the hairpin turns on the approach road but my timing was off and I did not want to add distraction to what was a rather intense hauling session.