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A complete rigging inspection:

Join our team of rigging technicians and rope access specialists for a thorough rigging inspection.

Our service is unique and is based on over 25 years of experience.

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Why is a rigging inspection necessary?

The majority of boat owners believe that a boat's rigging is indestructible and unbreakable.

 

Furthermore, the lack of technical knowledge among boat owners regarding their rigging leads them to invest much more time and money in engines or comfort equipment.


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Regular rigging inspections are your absolute guarantee of a safe boat

Secure and ready to tackle any waters.


This rigging must be regularly inspected by a professional because the parts that make it up age and wear out over time and with the miles traveled.


The mast, the standing rigging and the running rigging truly form the primary means of propulsion for the boat.


The aging of the cable due to age will be a combination of the miles traveled and mechanical fatigue resulting from repeated successive oscillations, leading to crystallization and breakage of the cable.


Boat insurers require a professional rigging inspection every year. If your rigging is more than 10 years old for a monohull and 6 years old for a catamaran, the inspector will advise you to replace it, and your insurer will require you to do so.


The rigging inspection is carried out based on a non-destructive, visual, and overall examination of its accessible parts or components, without disassembling the parts and accessories with which it is equipped.

The spars and rigging are inspected visually from the deck and by an inspection inside the mast(s), without removing or lowering the mast(s). A complete inspection of the mast(s) would require their removal ashore by crane.


During a rigging inspection, we check:

  • The sectors
  • The bridge chainplates
  • The pins
  • The threads of the turnbuckles
  • The crimps
  • The cables
  • Anchoring
  • The distribution of tensions in the rigging.
  • Mast exit or baffles
  • The masthead
  • Mast base and mounting plate
  • The goosebump
  • The front and rear boom ends
  • The downhaul fitting
  • Jam cleats and mast winches
  • The overall condition of the mast profile
  • The general condition of the boom profile
  • The overall condition of the reel
  • The condition of the arrow shaft fixings
  • The condition of the arrow shaft
  • The beam and anchors
  • The compression beam

While also indicating whether the item should be observed and changed later, changed immediately, or is in good condition.


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