Product Details

• Producers: Mark Herlinger
• Format: DVD, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Western Media Products
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009XCZU6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,531 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well done., February 24, 2006

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Jon Willette "bibliodude" (Billings, Montana USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tuning Your Rig (DVD version) (DVD)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive., February 25, 2006

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Robert W. Knapp (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tuning Your Rig (DVD version) (DVD)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic How-To, July 9, 2005

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D. Gaubatz (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tuning Your Rig (DVD version) (DVD)

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.