Weigh in your old stainless rigging?

Tim Good

Tim Good

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Is it wrong to ask for your old rigging when it is replaced? I mean do riggers factor it into the cost and weight it in?

I'm having a 43 ft heavily rigged cutter done at the moment and I can't help feel there must be some significant weighing in value to it but unsure how the industry works.
 
Out of interest. What sort of value am I looking at? I know it depends on each boat but 43 ft, big rig etc? Ball park?
 
I kept my two longest (just in case don't ya know) and got the rigger to swage eyes into 4 x 3m lengths of 6mm which I use with a padlock to secure things. He did it for nowt.
 
I use one of Kindred Spirit's old mizzen shrouds as a security cable for the dinghy (being nice and long it doesn't mean obstructing a small dinghy dock like a short chain would). Another one I unravelled a couple of strands from and used them as mousing wire (being gaff rigged she had a lot of shackles aloft, and they all needed mousing each year when we put the rig back up).

The rest is coiled up in the roof of my shed waiting for an eventual use :)

Pete
 
I kept a few longer lengths as spares with clamps to suit, and thinner wire made up with loops as heavy duty tender/bike locking canble
 
prv said:
I use one of Kindred Spirit's old mizzen shrouds as a security cable for the dinghy (being nice and long it doesn't mean obstructing a small dinghy dock like a short chain would). Another one I unravelled a couple of strands from and used them as mousing wire (being gaff rigged she had a lot of shackles aloft, and they all needed mousing each year when we put the rig back up).

The rest is coiled up in the roof of my shed waiting for an eventual use :)

Pete
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Rigging wire unravalled and used for mousing etc is horrible stuff. Generally very hard to bend and springy. It can be softened by heating to red colour then quenching. olewill
 
Most rigging companies will give it back to you without hesitation, however very few owners ask because unless you have about 50 boats worth its not worth the hassle.
 
northcave said:
Gosh yeah that is nothing! I thought it might be higher because I weighed in some brass recently and got a good return. You're right, barely worth the bother or worth letting the riggers have it for the sake of disposal.
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Brass and copper are really good scrap value. A copper hot water tank is about £100 scrap.
 
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