Brion Toss Pt. 1 // Master Rigger
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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#56. Master Rigger Brion Toss is on the show today for Part 1 of a very long and enlightening conversation with one of Andy's heroes. Andy met Brion in 2009 at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, and their conversation was the deciding factor in outfitting Arcturus with synthetic rigging. Brion comes on the podcast to discuss his own history as a rigger and sailor. In Part 2, they discuss the more technical aspects of rigging.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the... |
| 0:05.0 | Okay. Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing |
| 0:14.5 | podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 |
| 0:19.7 | degrees north sailing podcast. It's your host, Andy Shell, with episode 50-something. I've lost count by now, 56 or 57. This is a really cool episode, but before we get to it, a few quick reminders. We'll be at the boat show next week in Annapolis. I'm recording this on a Tuesday. It's September 30th. Boat Show starts next Thursday, October 8th, I think. We'll be in Slip S12. We have a boat, my dad's boat sojourner, in the show. So come see us in Slip S12 if you're at the boat show. Also doing the 59 North Live podcast as part of the World Cruising Club Ocean Sailing Forum on Saturday morning. You can still get tickets for that. |
| 0:55.5 | If you go to 59-north.com slash events, there's a link to the tickets on there. |
| 1:01.5 | And a ticket to that includes a ticket to the boat show. |
| 1:03.9 | So that's going to be recorded as a live podcast. |
| 1:06.4 | So come check that out. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm moderating a panel discussion of ocean sailing experts. |
| 1:12.5 | And we'll talk for two, three hours about ocean sailing and have a good time with that. Lots of time for Q&A. |
| 1:17.3 | All right, to get into this episode, this is Brian Toss. I've finally gotten in touch with |
| 1:23.0 | Brian. He and I have been exchanging emails since long ago in the summer when I was in Sweden |
| 1:27.1 | on Arc Tourists. Our schedules didn't match up, but finally, Brian and I have been exchanging emails since long ago in the summer when I was in Sweden on Arcturists. Our schedules didn't match up, but finally, Brian and I had a chance to chat. Brian is a |
| 1:33.4 | master rigger and sort of the guru of yacht rigging, an industrial rigging for that matter, but he |
| 1:39.1 | primarily does yacht rigging, and that's what we talked about today. Brian's got a book called |
| 1:42.8 | The Riggers Apprentice, and he told me that he just sent in a transcript, or sorry, a manuscript for a new updated |
| 1:49.1 | version of the Riggers Apprentice. So that should be coming out shortly, which is very exciting. |
| 1:53.4 | The Riggers Apprentice occupies a permanent space on my bookshelf on Orcturus and |
| 1:57.7 | is a wealth of information for folks interested in rigging and taking care of their own boats. |
| 2:04.3 | This episode, Brian and I talked for so long that I'm actually going to break this down into two parts. |
| 2:09.9 | Part one is today. |
| 2:11.8 | It's a shorter part. |
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