{"product_id":"standing-rigging-inspection-tension-record-pdf","title":"Standing Rigging Inspection \u0026 Tension Record PDF — Rig Inventory, Tune Baseline \u0026 Age Register","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size:1.05em;line-height:1.7;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rig can be at target tension on both sides and still be leaning. Nothing on the boat tells you.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou tune to the figures, both cap shrouds read the same on the gauge, and the mast is still half an inch out of the middle of the boat. Or the port lower needs taking up every single spring and the starboard one never does. Both facts are visible only if somebody wrote down last season's readings, and almost nobody did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis record holds every position across six tuning sessions on one page, with the conditions of each session underneath — because a reading taken on a cold morning with a different gauge is not comparable to one taken in August, and pretending otherwise is how people chase a problem that was never there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"background:#0A3F5C;border-left:4px solid #C5A059;border-radius:4px;padding:22px 24px;margin:26px 0;color:#F7F9FA;\"\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#C5A059;font-weight:700;\"\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 14px;font-size:1.25em;line-height:1.35;color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eA seven-part record for the life of the rig\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px;line-height:1.75;color:#DCE6EC;\"\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eA 24-line reference page\u003c\/strong\u003e for the tensions, limits and intervals you transcribe from your spar maker and your rigger, with the source and page beside each\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eA 20-line wire inventory\u003c\/strong\u003e — size, terminal type, pin-to-pin length and the year each individual wire was fitted, with four spare lines for positions your rig has and ours does not\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eA rig geometry baseline\u003c\/strong\u003e — rake, prebend, and the halyard measurement that tells you whether the mast is actually centred\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eTwelve positions across six tuning sessions\u003c\/strong\u003e on a single spread, with session conditions logged underneath\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003eA 20-line visual register and a separate 14-line professional record\u003c\/strong\u003e — deliberately not the same page\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"color:#FFFFFF;\"\u003e6 calculation models\u003c\/strong\u003e for share of breaking load, deviation, asymmetry, prebend, elongation and rig age\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eThe number that finds a leaning rig\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModel R3 is the sleeper in this record: the difference between a matched port and starboard pair, divided by their average. It survives a gauge that reads a little high or a little low, because the error cancels across the pair — so it works even when you are not certain the instrument is right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModel R5 is the other one worth the price: pin-to-pin length now against pin-to-pin length when the wire was fitted, with the remaining turnbuckle thread recorded beside it. A new rig settles. What matters is whether it is still settling three seasons later, and that is a question for your rigger, not for you — but you cannot ask it without the two numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"background:#F7F9FA;border:1px solid #E1E8EC;border-left:4px solid #A2803C;border-radius:4px;padding:20px 22px;margin:26px 0;\"\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 6px;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:700;\"\u003eNot one published tension. Deliberately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0;line-height:1.7;\"\u003eTarget tension depends on the rig geometry, the spar section, the spreader sweep, the sail plan and the water the boat is sailed in. A figure correct for a masthead sloop with in-line spreaders will put a swept-spreader fractional rig out of column and load the wrong wires doing it. So this record publishes none — you transcribe yours once, from your own spar documentation or from the rigger who tuned the boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eInterpreting a rig is qualified work. This is a record of it.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo page here tells you what a mark at a swage means, when a wire should be condemned, how to carry out non-destructive testing, or how far to turn a turnbuckle. Part V is split for exactly that reason: twenty lines for what you can see, clean and photograph, and a separate fourteen recording what a qualified rigger examined, by what method, what they reported and what they recommended — with their name and qualification against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou describe. They conclude. A rig failure is not a gradual event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eThe page that decides whether a claim is paid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart V closes with an age and insurance register. Your insurer's rigging age requirement is often shorter than your spar maker's, and it is the one that matters at the moment you need it. Model R6 turns the year each wire was fitted into a percentage of whichever interval you transcribed — and the record makes it obvious when one new forestay is sitting in a rig of fifteen old wires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eWho it is for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"line-height:1.75;\"\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOwners who have just had the rig tuned professionally and want the figures kept before they are forgotten\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOwners who inherited a boat with no rigging history and need to establish what is actually aloft, and how old\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRacing crews who re-tune through a season and want last season's settings to still exist\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnyone whose insurer or surveyor has started asking about rigging age\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOwners preparing to sell, where an undocumented rig is a five-figure deduction waiting to happen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eHow it relates to the Due Diligence Kit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Due Diligence Kit inspects a rig once, from the deck, before you buy. This record is what you keep afterwards: the figures your rigger specified, the tune they set, and every session since. One answers \u003cem\u003eshould I buy this boat\u003c\/em\u003e. The other answers \u003cem\u003ewhat has this rig been doing for three years\u003c\/em\u003e, which is a question only a record can answer and no inspection ever can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eTechnical specification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:0.95em;margin:12px 0 4px;\"\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;width:42%;\"\u003eProduct ID\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003eAML-RIG-2026-01\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eExtent\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003e27 pages · 7 parts · 6 calculation models\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eRegister lines\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003e168 across reference, inventory, geometry, tuning, inspection and age\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eInteractivity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003e788 live PDF form fields — 44 tick boxes and 744 entry fields\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eFormats included\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003eA4 and US Letter, both fillable and print-ready, 27 pages each\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eRigs\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003eMasthead or fractional, wire or rod, up to 20 positions — no rig-specific data\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eUnits\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003eUnit-neutral — kg, lb or gauge reading, you set them and record which\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;color:#0A3F5C;font-weight:600;\"\u003eOffline\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid #E1E8EC;\"\u003eNo app, no account, no connection required once downloaded\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"color:#0A3F5C;margin:30px 0 8px;\"\u003eWhat it is not\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis document records, structures and compares figures that you supply. It publishes no tension, no share of breaking load, no rake, no prebend, no replacement interval and no threshold at which a wire should be condemned, and it reaches no conclusion about any rig.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not a rigging inspection, not a tuning guide and not engineering advice. Those judgements belong to a qualified rigger or spar maker working to your own spar documentation and to the requirements of your insurer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:26px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#0A3F5C;\"\u003eInstant download.\u003c\/strong\u003e Your links appear on screen the moment payment clears, and arrive by email within a minute. They do not expire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:0.9em;color:#5C6B75;line-height:1.65;margin-top:22px;border-top:1px solid #E1E8EC;padding-top:16px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e2026 Captain's Edition · Revision 1.0 · AML-RIG-2026-01. Apex Marine Labs designs the organisational process behind good seamanship. 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