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  • Lazy Jacks for Your Sailboat: Tips & Tricks

    Our boat is complex. There are lots of moving parts, standing parts, parts work pretty well or parts that could use improvement. While circumnavigating, we’ve learned so much about our boat, but one of our very early lessons was on lazy jacks. What are Lazy Jacks? Our boat, Starry Horizons, Click here for full post: […] More

  • How I Think About Rigging // Mate Liz Karamavous

    Liz perched atop Isbjorn’s Rig! Having worked as a professional rigger on some of the most avant-garde boats afloat, Isbjørn Mate Liz Karamavros has caught a glimpse of what the future holds for cruising rigging. Read on and learn how and why Liz got her start in the rigging Industry! Join Click here for full post: https://www.59-north.com/blog/liz-rigging More

  • More Rigging Tweaks – The Topingliftectomy

    The boom on a sailboat, while attached rigidly (hopefully) to the mast at one end is balanced with various up and down forces at the other. There are plenty of down forces: The vang, the mainsheet and the weight of the whole thing.  One of the up forces that most Click here for full post: […] More

  • Shipyard list: refit for the South Pacific

    Siobhan and Mairen replacing the pole track and cleaning the mast Hot days pulling sticks on the hardstand, digital postcards from a dusty town in the Sonora desert, animal farm in the shipyard… anyone following our social media updates knows Totem is hauled out, and there’s a lot going on. Click here for full post: […] More

  • HOW TO INSPECT YOUR RIGGING

    What to look for when inspecting your rigging. Should you use Dyneema instead of cable? We share tips from our rigger. This is the full interview with Jai, our rigger. He talks about what to look for when inspecting your rigging, whether using Dyneema instead of cable is a good idea, and much more. We […] More

  • RIGGING AND COBRAS, ALL IN A DAY’S WORK!

    What do you do when you find a cobra in your workshop? Our rigger isn’t fazed by it… Yes, it is the season for cobras: big ones, little ones and all scary. We’ve seen a few around the marina this week, and Jai found one in his office. Well, it’s a rigger’s work space, so […] More

  • SHOULD WE RE-RIG THE BOAT?

    $10,000 to re-rig our boat?! The rigging’s ten years old, so our insurers insist we change it, but what do the professional riggers think? Wow, what a view from up there! Right across the mangroves out to sea. To be honest, Liz didn’t want to come down! So Jamie took some stunning footage with the […] More