'Rig Basics' will be launched on15 September, 2012, at the Southampton Boat Show (Kelvin Hughes stand J001, Solent Hale). Rig Basics - How to Look After Your Mast, Rigging and Sails provides a ...

The first package is Desman, which builds a three-dimensional model of the sail-and-rig system. “We start by defining the rig geometry in Desman,” Wallace explains. “Using numbers, we enter the basic ...

Her Mast and Rigging Carried Away in a Squall. ONE OF THE SAILORS DROWNED Sir Thomas Lipton Knocked Down and Bruised -- Rushing Work on New Mast and Hopeful of No Race Postponement.

That’s when the ship’s 98-foot masts, its sails and at least two miles worth of rope and metal rigging will be installed on the ship. A precarious task that will take some doing.

Video taken at the moment of the crash shows dozens of sailors lined up on the 147-foot masts as it set off on its journey for Iceland with 277 on board following a goodwill visit to New York City.

Dozens of crew members on the Mexican navy training ship Cuauhtemoc were lined up, standing with their arms apart, along rigging for the craft’s 147-foot-high masts around 8:20 p.m. Saturday in ...