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Scamp Balanced-Lug Rigging Tutorial

Scamp Balanced-Lug Rigging Tutorial

by GHBoats Webmaster | Jan 11, 2019 | Best of GHBoats, SCAMP

By popular request… at long last, a video tutorial about rigging the SCAMP Sailboat, with its balanced lug rig! It can look a bit intimidating at first if you’re only familiar with sloop-rigged boats, but it’s actually pretty simple once you know...
How to Rig a Sloop Sailboat  (Video Tutorial)

How to Rig a Sloop Sailboat (Video Tutorial)

by GHBoats Webmaster | Nov 13, 2017 | Best of GHBoats, Our Boats, Point Defiance

Well here’s something that’s been a long time coming… a video tutorial of how to rig one of our sailboats! Here Falk demonstrates how to rig up our 12′ Point Defiance Sailboat. As a sloop rig, this one is pretty representative of how the...

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