Sven Yrvindvideo
6 Topping lifts and more.
August 16, 2026 · 9 min · 3K views
What this video covers
Sven Yrvind works through rigging and stowage details on his small low-latitude boat, explaining a six-topping-lift arrangement: two topping lifts forward, one port and one starboard, and two aft in the same configuration, with one additional topping lift making six total. He describes the system as suited to a schooner-type rig where the geometry makes a single topping lift impractical.0:56 A brief stowage test checks whether electrical spares — fuses, a meter, and related items — fit in the same compartment as tools; the test fails, the space filling with just one category of gear.2:55 Yrvind also mentions spare batteries, a headlamp, a flag, glue, and tape as provisioning items.2:26 He raises the EU Recreational Craft Directive (RCD), arguing it was designed from the 1980s onward to exclude non-European boats such as U.S. designs, and criticizes the bureaucratic process behind it.5:07 A reference to a line needing to be 10 meters long appears in the rigging discussion.7:02 Much of the video is heavily degraded repetition and yields no further recoverable detail.
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