Rigging

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Author: Danilo Fabbroni
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 332238

Media: Paperback
Edition: Tra
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6.6 x 0.6

ISBN: 0470725680
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.862
EAN: 9780470725689
ASIN: 0470725680

Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
Everything you wanted to know about the mysterious art of rigging but were afraid to ask.

Rigging covers every aspect of standing and running rigging on a boat, explaining the role of every part and how they influence eachother. Easy step-by-step guides explain how to choose and fit your equipment before going on to describe how to tune your rig to achieve better performance. Alternate configurations are examined and the bewildering array of lines simply explained. Where calculations are used they are kept easy and straightforward to understand.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Running Rigging
Chapter 2 - Backstay
Chapter 3 – Genoa Sheets
Chapter 4 – Genoa Cars
Chapter 5 – Main Sheet
Chapter 6 – Afterguys and Sheets
Chapter 7 – Halyards and Reefing Lines
Chapter 8 – Standing Rigging
Chapter 9 – Spreaders and Mast Tuning
Chapter 10 - Winches

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

Poorly organized, badly written, often wrong August 8, 2008
This book is badly written and poorly organized to the point of being nearly unreadable. I thought at first it could be the fault of the translation (in the way that english translations of chinese product manuals were twenty years ago); however, after reading the book, I'm sure the author is almost completely to blame.

This is just purely a self promotional, vanity book (the author is the Italian rep for Harken), and should not have been printed by a legitimate publisher. I have seen it advertised as "industry standard". That's funny...I'm in the industry and yet I don't know anyone else who has it or has referred to it.

The author spends a great deal of effort on fake calculations, which are often wrong. I am an engineer (a naval architect), and this book is absolutely useless to me. Further, I believe it is uninformative, and would be useless to amateurs as well. I paid $22.76 for it...a total waste.