Installing yards: top down or bottom up?

[Gilbertm]

I am starting to install the yards on my Soleil Royal and was wondering if the best approach is top dow or bottom up.
I feel that top down makes more sense since you start with the small yard and have more space to work

I'd appreciate your input and ideas.

 

[Frank48]

I am starting to install the yards on my Soleil Royal and was wondering if the best approach is top dow or bottom up.
I feel that top down makes more sense since you start with the small yard and have more space to work

I'd appreciate your input and ideas.

Hi Gilbertm, in my small way I would like to be of help but I can't understand some words

 

[Gilbertm]

Hi Gilbertm, in my small way I would like to be of help but I can't understand some words

Hey Frank
Let me try in Italian (translating from French with Google)

Dovrebbe essere installato prima il cortile più alto o il più basso

 

[Frank48]

Hey Frank
Let me try in Italian (translating from French with Google)

Dovrebbe essere installato prima il cortile più alto o il più basso

sorry what model are you doing

 

[Gilbertm]

Soleil Royal

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

I usually start with the lowest yard and work up. Access to the mast is slightly easier when rigging the main yard parrel without having the topsail yard poking me in the eye.

 

[paulv1958]

Bottom up, easier to align them. Lower are also the most complicated with parrels etc. Also go mast to mast, all lower, then middle then top. I normally drill & pin yards then drill location on mast and pin in place.

 

[Brewerpaul]

Bottom to top. You've probably thought of this, but be sure to add any blocks, eyebolts, studding gear, jackstays and foot ropes before you install the yards. Look at all of the plans. On my POB, some of these items show up in one drawing, not others

 

[danielsje]

In my experience I have found going bottom to top more helpful. The lower yards are usually more complex than the upper yards thus being able to rig them without the additional rigging of the upper yards makes things a lot easier. My default pattern these days is bottom up and front to back…

 

[Gilbertm]

In my experience I have found going bottom to top more helpful. The lower yards are usually more complex than the upper yards thus being able to rig them without the additional rigging of the upper yards makes things a lot easier. My default pattern these days is bottom up and front to back…

Jim, Paul
Thanks for your input
This is what I am doing. SO all good

 

[LuigiSoft]

In this vane, is it wiser to install the yards first, then the shrouds, preventer stays, etc or the other way round?

 

[danielsje]

I always install the shrouds and stays first especially if ratlines are required. When doing ratlines you need all the free space you can get! You do not want to be weaving ratlines by poking your fingers and tweezers around and through running rigging. When in doubt, think of how a real ship would be rigged…the shrouds and stays are fixed. Yards and running rigging can be removed as needed thus often the attached rigging needs to be threaded around and through the fixed rigging.

 

[bill36]

I am starting to install the yards on my Soleil Royal and was wondering if the best approach is top dow or bottom up.
I feel that top down makes more sense since you start with the small yard and have more space to work

I'd appreciate your input and ideas.

1. Bottom up. It is next to impossible to rig top down.
2. The same for the standing rigging.

 

[Gilbertm]

Thanks Bill
This is what I am doing

 

[shipahoy]

bottom up is the best way to install yards. the belay points for the running rigging on the port and starboard pin rails work their way back as you get higher so as not to cross lines.