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    Can you fix a jammed sheave without a rigger?

    • September 9, 2020

    James Stevens answers your Questions of Seamanship. In this article, how confident would you be about fixing a jammed sheave?

    A man going up a mast of a yacht

    Mast climbing for shorthanded crews

    • July 1, 2020

    Professional skipper Simon Philips shares how to go aloft safely with only one other crewmember aboard

    Jonty Pearce: Mr Blobby on a stick, or ‘The art of mast climbing’

    • October 18, 2016

    Some of us are better suited than others to being hoisted aloft, as Jonty Pearce discovered, but good team work and thorough preparation make mast-head jobs go smoothly

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