Product Description

Sailors, Yacht owners, and charterers will love this comprehensive lesson on sailboat rig tuning taught by master rigger Brion Toss. Get the maximum performance out of your sailboat. Examples on various rig configurations on various cruising sailboats. Produced by Western Media Products. This is the DVD version. Also see VHS version on Amazon.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52617 in DVD
• Model: TUN
• Published on: 1997
• Formats: DVD, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

Features

• Taught by Brion Toss
• Rig tuning lessons
• Variety of yachts featured
• Variety of techniques taught

Customer Reviews

Very well done.
Toss is a great teacher, very calm, articulate, and methodical. His "bungie rig" (visual teaching aid) is excellent, and demonstrates how the rigging works and that the mast and rigging are a system, not just separate wires to be tensioned. Step-by-step he takes the viewer through the tuning of of several rigs and explains not only what to do but what not to do to tune a rig. He demonstrates how to hear the wire tention, feel the wire tention, and to use mechanical guage's to measure the tention of a wire. The DVD covers a static(dockside,no load) and dynamic(on the water, loaded)tuning. The goal being to get the whole system working together to maximise, boat speed, performance, and safety. Very well done.

Very comprehensive.
Mostly,I want to comment on the instructor/tutor,Brion Toss.He is excellent,excellent,excellent:personality,humor,know how.And
kool.But that's just my opinion.I would encourage the producers
to make more of these tutorial videos featuring him.

Fantastic How-To
This video explains the science and the art behind tuning your sailboats rigging. Of course, I had to watch it 20 times before attempting to tune my boat. In fact, I'm ordering the DVD version to replace my worn out VHS version.