Rigging Chafe Part 2

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I just put up on You Tube a part 2 about using PVC tubing as chafe protection on standing rigging. A 13 foot length of tubing cost me, here in Sri Lanka, 30 cents. Far cheaper than chafe protection bought at a marine store! But, the PVC is impervious to the UV rays of the sun and will last longer than anything offered at the marine store. Video 2  covers how to make a fine, long, slit in the PVC so it will snap over the wire stay plus how to get rid of the meat hook, which is always left, when snipping the excess off of a plastic wire tie.  I hope the information will be useful to you.

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Sail and Sheet Chafe Prevention

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Since I knew nothing about making, editing and posting a video; it took countless hours watching tutorials on You Tube to help figure out how to edit everything with the Magix Movie Editor Pro then stumble through the process required to get it all posted onto You Tube. There certainly is coarseness to the video but after many days of work, I am at my limit of endurance working on it. If there should be a #2 video, hopefully it would be influenced by this vertical learning “curve”.  Would you mind going to You Tube,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmMLxALjf4 and give it a “thumb up” and do a “Subscribe”. If the you think the video stinks, please be kind to me.

Thanks if you can help.  Patrick

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Short clip, Sailing to Sri Lanka from Malaysia…all off the wind

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This is a bit of an experiment. I want to put up video on our blog site. It is proving to be a long road to learn how to work with the movie edit programs and getting large files posted. In this short clip, we were sailing the 1,100 miles from Malaysia to Sri Lanka, off the S.E. coast of India. It was mostly off the wind sailing. Because of that, the main sail was getting chafed by resting on the intermediate stay. I just resolved the problem by installing PVC tubing on the stay. That required taking the terminal, at the turnbuckle end apart, shortening the stay to remove the bent wires inside the terminal so it could be completely disassembled, slipping on the PVC tube then putting it all back together. With luck, there was still enough threads to join the turnbuckle and the two threaded end fittings. Some of the process will be the next video….so far those video attempts have not worked out as the wind noise over the Go Pro has been far too distracting. Maybe, some upcoming early morning, during a calm, I will have more success.

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