How I made a DIY Sailing Rig for our Tender

How I made a DIY Sailing Rig for our Tender | ⛵ Sailing Britaly ⛵

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In this video I show you the cheap DIY sailing rig I made for our tender, and talk you through exactly how I made it. You can buy the plans to build this boat here ➜ bit.ly/benjy-website
Timings for your convenience:
00:00 Introduction
01:23 Planning the build and material selection
03:10 Mast
03:44 Mast splice
05:25 Mast hardware
07:14 'Copper Stoppers' (DIY Clamcleats)
10:49 Boom, gooseneck and hardware
12:19 Sprit and hardware
13:28 Kick up leeboard and simple mounting method
16:29 Kick up rudder
17:54 Tiller (made from an axe handle)
18:22 'Quick Release' rudder mounting system
20:20 Sails (Optimist and homemade polytarp storm sail)
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@lkm5462 6 жыл бұрын

The English Magyver. Your also a good teacher like Mads on sail life, out of Denmark

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Tak! (Danish for thank you...) Chris 👍

@digitalfantazia3953 6 жыл бұрын

Hi guys. The idea of having a little sail on your foldaway dinghy is a great idea. A nice alternative to the buzzing noise of an outboard (unless its electric). I feel your pain selling your previous boat. They really become a part of the family. Especially when you have had worked hard on them and had special moments on them. Thats probably why we now have 3 boats and cant bear to part with any of them and we still havent got our ideal sized (final!) boat with a drop keel and which is 38-39 foot. People call me a bit random and mad. I think I've met my match. :) Keep the videos coming . We love them. :)

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi David, you guys could have a family flotilla. :-) Thanks for your comment we really appreciate people taking the time to thank us for our videos. Fair winds, Chris 👍

@jonathankerner2094 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I have a 14 foot aluminum fishing boat (row boat) and I have been wanting to make it a sailboat but have not known the things you taught me here. Thank you so much! Well done, very well explained. I appreciate it!

@ROBBANKS666666 3 жыл бұрын

Awesomeness I’m going to try!

@truthseeker471 3 жыл бұрын

Great job mate..weldone

@KarlKarsnark 6 жыл бұрын

More amazing work!

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Chris 👍

@jestork1 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the wonderful video and ideas. I just picked up a little 13 foot sailboat without the mast, boom, rigging, and sail. Iwas thinking of making my own. Now I know I can do it. Nothing fancy, but functional. Thanks for the inspiration.

@SailingBritaly 4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure James! Subscribe & hit the bell for more helpful videos from us. Good luck with your boat work!⛵️Cheers, Chris 👍

@jimmymike1881 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks from Eastern NC USA! Great video. Now time to start my own project. Thanks for the inspiration and instruction.

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure James (missed this comment!) Cheers, Chris

@KevinRussellT 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for sharing!

@SailingBritaly 2 ай бұрын

🙏👍

@jeremyduncan3654 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@SailingBritaly 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Jeremy 👍

@zenblack476 5 жыл бұрын

You are a genius thank you

@pahunter3 6 жыл бұрын

Great information of a DIY project.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Fair winds, Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊

@littlejohnny47 6 жыл бұрын

Very creative use of ordinary, easily available bits to make your sailing rig! Great job Chris! It is interesting to watch you come up with ways to get things done - without spending a lot on “marine” hardware. Never would have thought to use a turnbuckle to get two cheap eye bolts! Wow! Thanks for another great video.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi there! Thank you :-) Yes, it did seem strange that the stainless steel turnbuckle cost less than two eye bolts of the same dimensions but that's how it was in the shop I visited. As long as you remember that one has a left-hand thread and one a right-hand thread, there's no difference. I also made DIY rowlocks out of 'turnbuckle eye bolts' after seeing how ridiculously expensive commercial rowlocks are ( a loop of line goes through the eye and holds the oar, allowing full range of movement). They worked great too... Fair winds! Chris 👍

@Medwaydroneexploration 6 жыл бұрын

Great video Chris 👍😊

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Garreth! 👍

@drwindsurf 6 жыл бұрын

Very clever work on the rig. Thank you for sharing what you did and why. Thank you for another excellent video :)

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jeffrey! Cheers, Chris 👍

@rickhawkins2971 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, will be using a few of these ideas

@SailingBritaly 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure! 👍

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Do you want to know how we built our homemade folding tender? (8 foot boat which folds down to 4 inches wide, rows, sails and planes with an outboard engine!) Watch this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZqjd5Og3NTalX0.html

@robertvezina3669 3 жыл бұрын

Genius! Thank You for Sharing

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert 🙏

@Lukasblade2 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for this!

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome! Chris 👍

@The1stGurehaundo 4 жыл бұрын

Stopper by itself is worth the price of admission for this video!

@SailingBritaly 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-)

@amphidory7600 3 жыл бұрын

this design is a wealth of brilliant ideas ....my compliments

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

Benjy’s plans are superb - my rig, leeboard and rudder were just a thrown together experiment, but it all worked out well in the end. Cheers, Chris 👍

@andrewharmon7929 3 жыл бұрын

Cutting board... brilliant! I'll be using that on my sailing canoe!

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

It’s super handy: it cuts and can be sanded to shape easily, takes a tap very well and can be heated and bent if a non-flat shape is required. Cheers, Chris 👍

@johngallagher912 3 жыл бұрын

About your copper stopper...copper and aluminum touching will act as battery terminals and produce galvanic corrosion, especially when wet with salty sea water/spray. Would same size aluminum tubing work as an alternate stopper?

@allmomomosthomebus3895 2 жыл бұрын

Terrific. I'm going to build my first sail dingy It's going to be 11 ft by 5'6" beam. I'll be using your ideas! Thank you for blazing the trail!

@AndyUK-Corrival 6 жыл бұрын

Great little rig and some brill ideas. Agree about chopping boards....so useful. Andy UK

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy! You can never have too many chopping boards... :-) Fair winds, Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊

@Erik_Kingsson Жыл бұрын

Thanks for video. Would be nice to see how it really works on a boat.

@alemakhoul4899 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice, friend! Shoutout from Brasil :)

@bubberdini 3 жыл бұрын

would love to see your „storm sail“ in action! really like such improvised but well working stuff!

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We sold this dinghy with our previous boat but there will be another one on the way when I can find the tine to build it... Cheers, Chris 👍

@ajwalou-nack2343 2 жыл бұрын

Cool . I'm thinking of doing it to my 16' fishing boat to save fuel . Thanks for the heads up .

@alanbennett7199 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I have a 9 foot huon pine dinghy that I'd like to convert. Inspiring stuff! Thanks. Alan

@mayasmith3332 4 жыл бұрын

I needed a sail for my skate board thanks ⭐

@SailingBritaly 4 жыл бұрын

Nice one Maya, a sail powered bicycle is on my "things to do if I ever get the chance one day" list. Good luck with your skate board! 😉

@jimfenton5792 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid. Would have liked to see how all the rig was fitted to the tender.Thks

@sylosouthflorida 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

Pleasure! 👍

@curacao11 6 жыл бұрын

cool video mate

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alsino! Fair winds, Chris 👍

@jamesharmon3911 4 жыл бұрын

great!

@SailingBritaly 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers James ⛵️👍

@edgelivecam 3 жыл бұрын

thank you !! only the leeboard bit for me ; great simple design .. building a kite boat !! ; cheers

@SailingBritaly 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one Gordon, enjoy! 🌅👍

@tombarker3608 6 жыл бұрын

What no Emma? Hope mom and daughter are having a nice nap. Chris I continue to impress me on your engineering skills. To look at a cooper pipe and make a jam cleat or make your own storm sail. Good job well done safe travel.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom, this was filmed last year on our old boat (We still have lots of footage to edit from that but we are really struggling with the time it takes!). Thank you for your comment. :-) Fair winds, Chris 👍

@stephenmundane 6 жыл бұрын

Ingenious as always Chris. I enjoyed the RAF slang at 21:14 -- not heard that in decades! I think it's originally an expression used by the Fish Heads, so very appropriate here ;-)

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Stephen, it's funny to hear Rossella come out with words like this that she's picked up from me over the years... :-) Fair winds, Chris 👍

@salted-anchovy 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Chris! Your DIY skills always blow me away :-D Now living in the USA, I love to listen to your British accent ;-) Antonio (wannabe DIY)

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Antonio, thank you very much! 😊 Fair winds, Chris 👍

@bradlarden 6 жыл бұрын

Great video. Many thanks for for sharing. I've also used cutting board for various things that it wasn't intended for. The only hassle I have had is its lifetime when out in the sun. Perhaps it's worse here in Australia but the board didn't last all that long.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Brad, thank you for your comment and for the heads up with the UV resistance issue. Cheers, Chris 👍

@VaLeiLaSail 6 жыл бұрын

You re always super!we d like to do it for Valerio!!

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys! I'm sure Valerio would love being the captain of a sailing dinghy. Maybe you can build a rig together as a family one day... Buon Vento! Chris 👍

@edmilinski1295 3 жыл бұрын

the rudder is perfect for a giant dinghy, or your yacht -)

@wietzesteyn4026 9 ай бұрын

Congrats

@SailingBritaly 2 ай бұрын

🙏

@riotagus 5 жыл бұрын

Sailing Macgyver, well done.

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 👍

@europachef 6 жыл бұрын

@ Lk M "The English McGyver" Like it, good one.

@robertfoster8736 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent videos, Chris. I am thinking strongly about building one of these boats. I think I saw where you thought the 6 ft. Version was perhaps better. Would your sailing rig work for that? I was sorry to see the inflatable tender on your new boat. The foldable wooden boat certainly takes up less space than an inflatable boat. I purchased a cheap inflatable boat, but it doesn't row very well in a straight line. I think the wooden boat would be better, and with the addition of a sailing rig, would be easier to control. In addition to the cost of a motor here in North Carolina, they want to tax you for a powered tender. I would be interested in your comparison between the inflatable and the Origami wooden boat. Thanks again, Bob Foster

@TampaTec 6 жыл бұрын

Automatic Liked 👍 very close to 10k subs 🍻

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Hopefully we'll hit the magic 10k soon! 🍻👍

@travelbywater9378 4 жыл бұрын

What glue did you use to attach the nylon mats cap to the mast?

@edrussell7960 6 жыл бұрын

One question, but first great video love them all. Does the copper stoppers cut into the lines when you use them? Seems like they would cut thru the lines like a pair of scissors after a bit. Just curious.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Ed, thank you 👍 I found them to be pretty good actually. You do have to deburr all of the edges though, inside and out. Fair winds, Chris

@iwonanieroda4669 6 жыл бұрын

Superb we have enjoyed every minute, kisses for Emma

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Iwona. Fair winds, Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊

@svstellamaris6130 6 жыл бұрын

Bravo. Don’t be discouraged that your tinker and productivity time come to a painfully slow pace now with the kiddo. Just the next stage in life👍. In several years she’ll be coming up with problems for you to overcome and McGyver will return😁👊.

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

👍

@flyingdutchman6984 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting Chris, kind of like a small glimpse into the mind of madness. 😀 I like your approach to problem solving with the results being imaginative and functional. Is there anything you would have done differently given the opportunity to build this setup again in the future? The first sailboat I ever owned was built by my father, two uncles and myself. Selling it felt like losing my first love and I cried like baby when the new owner came to pick it up. I was heartbroken even though I had outgrown it and moved onto a bigger and much better sailboat. It is odd how people can become so emotionally attached to an inanimate object.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Building a boat with your family like that is something very special indeed and I can imagine that it takes the pain of selling it to the next level. It is weird how you can become so attached to a boat, but I guess it's the priceless memories you make and associate with them... What would I do differently? Good question. Before Emma I'd have built the 6 foot version as the usable space inside these boats is huge and we didn't need such a big tender for our use. To be honest I think even with Emma I'd probably go for the 6 foot version but no doubt there would be times when I'd miss the extra couple of foot LOA. The rudder I would build more simply and lighter weight. If I had the time to dedicate to it I would build a foiling version, but that would take a lot of faffing about and I really do not have the time for that kind of shenanigan at the moment... (Maybe when I'm 80 years old and things have calmed down a bit!) I'd probably buy a standard optimist sail rather than the school sleeve version as this would be more versatile and could even be employed as a riding sail for when the main boat is at anchor. That's about it I think. I loved this little tender and I hope to bump into it out there on the big wide blue some day. Fair winds! Chris 👍

@flyingdutchman6984 6 жыл бұрын

It is sad to see the tender you built going and it will be interesting to see if you build another for your new sailboat. The rudder was well engineered for a 4m sailboat but, as you already know, overkill for a 6 foot tender. I am not sure you would realize much benefit from a foil design when used on a tender of that size. I would have loved to take her for a spin around the harbor as I imagine it was a lot of fun. Not too many people can say their tender is actually fun to use. I have a Porta-Bote that has served me well although I cannot think of a time when I have had any fun with it. I have saved the link to the plans for the tender you built and will definitely consider it when the Porta-Bote goes to a watery grave. A fraction of the cost and a lot more fun is always good in my book. Take care.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

👍

@jonathankerner2094 3 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to find the image of the tender with all the terminology listed. Where is that? I wish to screen capture it because I do not know all the names of the parts.

@josephcrawley3095 Жыл бұрын

Why did you sell the folding dinghy with the boat? Seemed like you really liked it

@SailingBritaly Жыл бұрын

Hi Joseph, I didn't want to sell it but it was a deal breaker... The guy who bought our boat really wanted the dinghy too. We sold this boat for more than we paid for her (even including all refit maintenance costs), aafter 4.5 years of use, so decided it was worth letting the dinghy go knowing that I can make another one one day if I want... Cheers, Chris

@SailingTanker 6 жыл бұрын

Nice DIY Chris, your official last name is now McGyver ..

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Larry! I must admit I've been called that many times (even by an Italian, which was very surprising!) Thanks for watching. :-) Fair winds, Chris 👍

@sticky59 3 жыл бұрын

Job done ..... just shows you, you don't have to go buy an expensive rig.

@ibrahimabdullah184 2 жыл бұрын

الله اكبر

@NOBADDAYS101 6 жыл бұрын

Cutting boards are "ace" ha ha ha , not heard the word ace for years, not since kicking about on a bmx when erasure were cool ha ha ha .I am very very new to sailing and find your videos enlightening, informative and interesting. I need some sailing experience lessons from a more common sense approach. Would you be interested in having a second mate to show me the ropes for a week. I'm based in the uk but I'm a tight arsed civil engineer originally from Chorley, lancs whose semi retired(in my early forties) so very few restrictions on when and where .

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jason, cutting boards are ace! As are BMX bikes, Spectrum ZX 48ks, and a proper game of football where everyone gets kicked and rammed into and nobody rolls around on the floor like a ballerina! Those were the days eh?... We started sailing relatively late too but it's very easy to pick it up. You can learn to sail in a couple of days [then spend every day for the rest of your life working to improve and learn more, without ever achieving perfection...] so it's really quite easy to get started. We offer crew opportunities to our Patrons, who pledge $1 or more per video, so you might like to check out our Patreon page (patreon.com/sailingbritaly) Chorley is not far from my neck of the woods (Sunny Blackpool). There is a marina in Preston so there are also sailing opportunities there. Fair winds! Chris 👍

@TheRattyBiker 5 жыл бұрын

Cheap - 115 USD ....thats got to be a typo right? 6082 48mm x 4mm x 3m 15-20 GBP

@JonMadsen70 6 жыл бұрын

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

:-)

@SDBloxham 6 жыл бұрын

wooden Dowel (little wooden thing lol)

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

My brain was just not working! (😴)

@SenatorPerry 6 жыл бұрын

Wooden Bung.

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

:-)

@deltafour1212 6 жыл бұрын

I am so "stealing" some of these ideas

@SailingBritaly 5 жыл бұрын

That's why I made the video! Happy building and fair winds, Chris 👍

@thisoldboat7393 10 ай бұрын

Im A PHONE? 😢

@patrickwentz8413 6 жыл бұрын

Did you just say your are selling your boat???? :(

@SailingBritaly 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Patrick! Don't worry: this video was recorded last year (hence the new father puffy eyes!) this was our old boat, which we sold and is now sailing around the beautiful island or Sardinia with her new owner... Fair winds, Chris, Rossella & Emma 😊