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Actions Displays	Cruising Rigs and Rigging Remove from selection Add to selection TitleCruising Rigs and Rigging Author Ross Norgrove (author)‎ Place of publicationSt Albans, London PublisherAdlard Coles Nautical, Granada Year of publication1983 Paginationxii, 322 p. IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams, black and white photographs Dimensions18.5 x 24.1 cm Materialbook Class numberVM531 .N6 1983 ISBN0-229-11701-5 Subjectsailing, rigs and rigging, rigs Norgrove starts in at the beginning, telling you how to choose the best rig for a particular vessel. He then proceeds through the details of spar construction, sail arrangement, standing and running rigging and fittings of all kinds. Covers how to pour a socket, how to hoist a dinghy on board and where to stow it, how to black down rigging, how to rig a boat for self-steering, how to draw a sail plan to send to a far-away sailmaker.

TitleCruising Rigs and Rigging

Author

Place of publicationSt Albans, London

Year of publication1983

Paginationxii, 322 p.

IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams, black and white photographs

Dimensions18.5 x 24.1 cm

Materialbook

Class numberVM531 .N6 1983

ISBN0-229-11701-5

Norgrove starts in at the beginning, telling you how to choose the best rig for a particular vessel. He then proceeds through the details of spar construction, sail arrangement, standing and running rigging and fittings of all kinds. Covers how to pour a socket, how to hoist a dinghy on board and where to stow it, how to black down rigging, how to rig a boat for self-steering, how to draw a sail plan to send to a far-away sailmaker.