Rigging and standing rigging⚓🚢 #sailboat #sailing
23 février 2025 · 10 min · 240 vues · Lake Garda
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The Marconi rig consists of an aluminum mast with a track for the mainsail luff, a boom attached via a gooseneck (trozza), and optional spars like a spinnaker pole (tangone) or bowsprit (bonpresso) for flying downwind sails.0:50 Standing rigging includes forestays and backstays—or a split backstay called a backstay bridle (paterazzo)—to control longitudinal mast movement, while shrouds (sartie) supported by spreaders (crocette) prevent lateral bending.3:40 Modern rigs may use swept-back spreaders to stabilize the mast without a backstay.3:59 These cables attach to the deck via chainplates (lande) and are tensioned with turnbuckles (arridatoi).4:19 Sails are constructed from panels (fersi) and feature specific terminology for corners—head (penna), tack (mura), and clew (bugna)—and edges—luff (infieritura), foot (base), and leech (balumina).4:49 Battens (stecche) maintain the airfoil shape, and reefing points (terzaroli) allow for sail area reduction.6:03 Wind assessment relies on a masthead wind vane (Windex) for direction and an anemometer for speed in knots.7:39 On Lake Garda, the primary thermal winds are the northerly Peler and the southerly Ora.8:48
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