"Vienna"
July 9th 2010 still getting ready for the trip. the rigger comes by in order to tension the shrouds. for future reference, I'd like to note down the steps: (i) manual tightening of all turnbuckles, (ii) a neat trick to check that the mast doesn't lean to one side: take the main halyard and hold it against one of the upper shrouds (that are directly next to the mast), measure the distance between the halyard sha
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