Maintenance
Rigging checks
During the sailing season when your yacht is in commission, regular maintenance
checks should be carried out and particularly before a long voyage.
1 Examine all steel/wire ropes for corrosion, wear and damage.
2 Examine all terminations for signs of wear, cracks or damage. Pay particular
attention to all split pins, they should be the largest size possible to pass through
the cotter pinhole with at least 3/4" protruding through the hole.
3 Examine all bottle screws for signs of wear or damage and ensure they are
'in
safety',
i.e. the inner threads are visible through both safety holes. Where bottle
screws are covered with tape or plastic tubing, remove to enable examination.
4 Ensure the ends of the spreader bar are protected to prevent sail
chafing.Ensure
the rig is correctly adjusted.
5 Remove halyards from the mast leaving messenger lines for
rereefing.
6 Check all running rigging for signs of wear, paying particular attention to all eye
splices and end terminations. On the wire/rope halyards check the wire rope
splice. If the rope side of the splice is starting to swell then the wire has started
to rust and the halyard should be replaced. Wash halyards which are not being
replaced and soak rope joins in linseed oil (also soak joins on new halyards).
7 Check over the standing rigging paying particular attention to the wire where it
enters the swage fittings. Should there
be
any sign at all of cracking in any one
of the wire strands then replace the shroud concerned.
8 Look for signs of wear of ridging on clevis pins where they may rock or work in
chain plates or shroud tangs, also
look
for corresponding wear on mating fittings.
9 Where shrouds locate into mast by means of a shroud terminal in a slot, ensure
that there is no undue wear.
10
Renew all split pins for recommissioning.
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