How much MAST RAKE Do You Have?

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0:00 Intro
0:11 How to find your masthead position
1:20 Where do you put your masthead?
1:40 Weather Helm and Lee Helm
2:20 A good starting point
3:06 Athwartships positioning
4:40 Why worry about the masthead?
5:37 Skillshare
7:41 Outro
The first thing you need to do to tune your rig is to center the masthead over the boat, but how do you do that? This video will show you how to find and position your masthead with ease so that you can tune your rigging the right way the first time!
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@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

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@HandyMan657 2 жыл бұрын

And once again I have more wisdom from the Rigging Docter. Thanks, Herbie.

@donnakawana 2 жыл бұрын

I dig you guys... I dig the rig!!! I'm being a total goofball.... Glad you guys made it safely.. Thanks for sharing your lives with us and Fare winds an following sea's!!! ✌🏻💗😊❣️

@xbioman7882 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great, helpful video Herby! More like this please. Not that I don't thoroughly enjoy the sailing.

@DowneastThunderCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips, Herby! It's an extra ration of Spam for you!😄

@MM_in_Havasu 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting tutorial on mast alignment! Thanks!

@thomasceurvorst1899 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. I wish I knew this when I owned a daysailer and had to guess every time I launched and had to adjust my for stay every time

@sailingmoonshadow3169 2 жыл бұрын

This is a first - being hustled by a parrot! 🤣 My mast has a considerable bend in it so I guess I'd need to take that into account when checking the rake?

@johnmajewski1065 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very simple clear instruction, Thanks for passion on your knowledge!

@Dave-SailsAway 2 жыл бұрын

Great tips

@pdutube 2 жыл бұрын

Man I love it when you get technical! You could make a travel channel but I can always rely on you to actually, well, sail? Or talk about sailing? I'm not putting others down but this is so important to me. Any-hoo... I didn't know this about contemporary sailboats. I have a thing for the old schooners, like Baltimore and Shenandoah, et. al., and they have major mast rake, especially the old racers. From what I've read in the old literature, it didn't just look fast but it kept the really big main booms out of the water when heeled. It also added preload so that they didn't need as many backstays because, well, they were stayed by being so far back LOL. Please keep doing what you do! I wish I was more engaged as you are when I was younger. I grew up around water in New England and didn't take advantage of everything it had to offer. Thanks for realigning my priorities, I mean that sincerely. And for all you young people out there wondering if they should? DO IT!

@jasoncreed6396 10 ай бұрын

Thanks again ,im still tryin to balance mine for the wedges and wasnt certain the best way to measure it but youve made it super easy

@RiggingDoctor 10 ай бұрын

Glad I could help 😎

@melinda5777 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite type of video, Tutorials!!! ❤❤🇺🇲⛵⚓

@goneswimming5636 2 жыл бұрын

great video! I was literally taking notes. Very informative

@PanzerDave 2 жыл бұрын

What a great video! It was very, very useful but easy to understand. I don't think I have seen any other videos that were so simple yet so helpful. Thanks for the tips!

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for such positive feedback! Glad it was helpful to you!

@PanzerDave 2 жыл бұрын

@@RiggingDoctor You are very welcome. Rigging is not my strong point so I greatly appreciate these tips!

@petercooke2115 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you,appreciated

@seanflanagan2441 2 жыл бұрын

These are GREAT tips! Excuse me, I'm gonna run out and check … aw CRUM! I don't have a boat of any kind, not even a gravy boat!

@jasonmcintosh2632 2 жыл бұрын

My wife is keeps asking me about your birds. I think you had said you were going to make a video about them. Where did they come from, where have they been... anything birds. : )

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

Look for a live video about the birds near the end of the month or beginning of November :)

@jeffgriglack9624 2 жыл бұрын

Everything I have read, and how I have always done it, is to tune the rig without the boom installed. The weight of the boom, and the sail on the boom, are going to push forward on the mast (even a heavy duty mast) and throw off the measurements. Also, the place I usually start tuning my rig is to use the main halyard to measure that the mast is even side to side by bringing it to a point on the side deck. Then I worry about rake while making sure I maintain the mast in column.

@kimyoung230 2 жыл бұрын

That is an interesting perspective, I've not heard of that before. I would think that you would *want* to include the boom, since it will logically be on when you sail. It may have a small impact on the mast, but that presumably needs to be accounted for in getting the mast rake and bend set where you want it to be, no? If you take the boom off, and tension the rig just so (column, rake, bend all perfect), and *then* add the boom back, aren't you then changing the rake and bend from what you intended? Tensioning without the boom would seem to be like trimming your sails for the true wind, and then realizing that the trim is off because you need to trim to the apparent wind once the boat is up to speed.

@jeffgriglack9624 2 жыл бұрын

@@kimyoung230 By removing the boom, you can set the rake without having any force from the boom trying to bend the mast. That way you won't confuse rake and bend.

@jereland8200 2 жыл бұрын

A large plumb bob

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@shopart1488 2 жыл бұрын

Love the videos, dislike the super long commercials.

@MrBobVick 2 жыл бұрын

Know when tuning for racing aft rake is always better for pointing.

@williambell8282 2 жыл бұрын

Online swimming lessons..I've heard it all now...

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

I know! I thought it was pretty good to mention by bird 🤣

@stevenplancich6449 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Isn’t it best when yer on the Hard doing these measurements? 😜

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

On the hard the boat has to be absolutely level, which we have never had the pleasure of being. In the water you can move weight around to get the boat to sit level while you measure the mast and get it in position.

@kimyoung230 2 жыл бұрын

I've always heard that the hull changes shape while on the hard in a cradle or on stands. The tension and mast would be off once the boat is back in the water and has had time to adjust, with water putting pressure all around the hull and the keel hanging free instead of being supported.

@pdutube 2 жыл бұрын

@@kimyoung230 I never thought of that but it makes sense.

@PanceriMarco 2 жыл бұрын

Must love bird marketing 😅

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

Haha!!

@samo-nx2pl 7 ай бұрын

Can you tell how much mast rake needs 7/8 rig? Mast is 12m tall.

@RiggingDoctor 7 ай бұрын

If you don’t have any documentation or drawings for your boat, start with the masthead raked back 1 mast size (for example: if your mast is 8 inches fore-aft, then the halyard with weight hangs 8 inches from the back of the mast). That’s the starting point. If you still have lee helm, come back farther. If you still have weather helm, go forward from there. You want to take it back until the boat sails perfectly balanced with no input from the tiller or wheel (straight rudder).

@paullee6663 2 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha! The first video in 'years' that didn't 'star and feature' PJ....Oh, hang on it's a tutorial.... and sponsored to boot. I doubt that counts? PJ's motto....'Those that can, do; those that can't teach' (George Bernard Shaw) I'm sure PJ will be back shortly... :-)

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

Haha! PJ will have a nice big break while we’re in the Caribbean :)

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

PJ was the sail that I had to move to reveal where the mast step area would be on a deck stepped boat. Even though he wasn’t set, he still made an appearance 🤣

@ianmajor4000 2 жыл бұрын

That’s assuming the boat hasn’t got a list. Safest way would’ve to take a Halyard to each gunwale.

@RiggingDoctor 2 жыл бұрын

If there is a list, that should be addressed even if it requires putting weight on the toe rail to level it out. Once the boat is sitting level, this is quick and easy to sort out.

@ianmajor4000 2 жыл бұрын

@@RiggingDoctor could go onto lengthy discussion here. For whatever reason maybe dinghy on one side, provisioning, empty/full water tanks etc, there is a temporary list. It’s safe as houses to stretch a halyard to each gunwale then it’s simple geometry. Fore and aft I totally agree with your take on it. 👍

@luckylevio 2 жыл бұрын

🙏👍🏻⛵⛵⛵🗺

@willweaver5024 Жыл бұрын

You never mention making sure the boat is not listing before you start tuning the mast. Isn't that really important?

@RiggingDoctor Жыл бұрын

That is very important. I didn’t mention that because ideally you already have addressed that issue, but it is good to mention it just in case the boat lists a little to one side. Very good point.