One of the services Ive offered over the years but not advertised is rigging. I worked at Balard Sails years ago now and learned so much on top of the years ive spent doing my own rigging. I remember quite clearly the seeds of this inspiration to work aloft. I was about 15 and my folk hired a gentlemen named Craig Shaw to help us convert the club footed self tacking jib the family boat came rigged with to a overlapping genoa and staysail. Craig drove a vintage yellow hot rod pickup. He wore an old faded Mount Gay regatta hat, a trophy from some past race to be sure and something i only learned the significance of when I started going poor collecting my own racing my boats. Craig had a braided ponytail down his back and like so many times in my youth inspired me to do his work one day and become a rigger. Before that it was a rancher..

I still remember Craigs advice to alway tie a bowline to your bosun's chairand to never trust a shackle.

Yesterday I went up the mainmast of a one off Bristol Channel Cutter to run a new radar and wiring for spreader lights.

Here are some pictures