YACHT RIGGING & ROPE SPLICING COURSE AIMS:
Our yacht rigging & rope splicing course will help you understand how to set up and maintain your rig, how to splice like a pro and service your yacht winches and deck hardware.
“Yacht Rigging & Rope Splicing” is one of our home-grown courses that our instructors have written and developed over the last 2 decades. You will spend the morning learning about rigging and the some of the cause of rig failure. Half the afternoon is spent on servicing deck hardware such as winches and the remainder of the day is devoted to splicing different types of ropes.
COURSE DURATION
1 day (0915 to 1615)
This course content can also be found in our Yacht Maintenance Week
WHAT IS COVERED IN THE YACHT RIGGING & ROPE SPLICING COURSE?
A mixture of classroom and hands on training covering:
- Rig layout, formation and terminology
- Rig inspections
- Riveting and removing rivets
- Servicing winches & deck hardware
- Sailmaker’s Whipping
- Braid on braid eye splice
- Dyneema core eye splice
- Splicing a dyneema soft shackle
INCLUDED
- Day of training & use of winches, rigging etc.
- Use of tools for splicing, whipping, riveting etc.
- Soft shackle and eye splices to take away
- CT Yacht Rigging & Rope Splicing Certificate (PDF sent by email following the course)
- Tea & Coffee
- Free (on street) parking
NOT INCLUDED
- Lunch
- Handbook
TEACHING RATIO
We have a self imposed a limitation of 8 students on this course. However we will run the course with as few as 2 students. Each student has use of their own set of fids, needles and palm. Winch servicing is done in pairs.
WHY USE CHIEFTAIN TRAINING FOR THE YACHT RIGGING & ROPE SPLICING COURSE?
Nearly 20 year ago our Principal dreamed up the 1-day “Yacht Rigging Course”, over the years it developed and ten years ago changed name to “Yacht Rigging & Rope Splicing.” In recent times our competitors have looked at our website and pinched both our course title and our advertised course syllabus. Of course it takes more than a cut and paste to match our product, while they try to emulate what we were doing last year we continue to improve the product and set the gold standard.