Yesterday’s strong winds didn’t stop the crew from taking the Riggin‘s winter cover and framing off. It was time. Typically we remove the cover when we haul out in the spring but because we did our haul out in the fall we were able to keep the cover on a little longer. We are now [...]
One of the last “big” project of the outfitting season this year was replacing part of the rail cap on the port side of the schooner.
One of the rainy day projects Captain Jon has been working on is a small repair to the fore gaff. The fore gaff is the upper spar attached to the forward mast, the lower spar is the boom (the one you duck from so you don’t get hit in the head!) Captain Jon used Douglas [...]
This morning upon arriving at the office I saw Cap walking across the yard with the look of “I have something to show you”. I always get excited when I see this look because it means I’m going to learn something or see something that if I didn’t work here I would never have the [...]
Winter is the time for projects. Projects in the barn, on the boat and in the office. In recent weeks Captain Jon has started on a few projects. In the barn Cap has started sanding and staining the forward skylight and adding window bars. On the boat he has started the process of adding [...]
One of the smaller, but very important projects, we are working on while hauled out is replacing our zincs. Below is an excerpt about what Zincs are and why we use them from an article by Don Casey in BoatUS. “Any time you have two different metals that are physically or electrically connected [...]
On Monday we hauled our Maine windjammer, the J&E Riggin, out of the water for the second time this year. While we normally haul out in the spring for annual maintenance, this fall we hauled to work on a few projects that we don’t have time to do in the spring. And because we are hauled [...]
When Captains Jon & Annie built the barn at their house Capt Jon made this great pulley system to get the sails up to the 2nd floor. On Friday we were grateful to have this system in place after Capt Jon, crew and Glen, a 13 time Riggin passenger, after derigging (removing the sails and [...]
After a few days of “Are we hauling out today?” we finally made the move last night. It was a race against light (6:30pm is not a great time to start) and nasty weather on its way to us. It was a bit rocky as the wind made it less than perfect for getting the [...]
