Checking, maintaining and adjusting a rig requires skills that are acquired through experience. For more than 15 years, the company Atelier Gréement based in Canet-en-Roussillon has been dealing with the refit of sailboat rigging with a more particular knowledge of multihulls.
Whether the boats are new when they are launched or used, Atelier Gréement is able to check the spars, standing rigging and current. More and more yards call on them for the professional expertise they offer (Lagoon, Fountaine Pajot, Catana, Sunreef...). Indeed, if previously the verification of a rigging was done empirically, now the stresses are calculated and the tensions measured.
Whether it is the boat's architect, the shipyard's design office or the mast manufacturer, everyone provides figures that must be respected. For its part, Atelier Gréement has equipped itself with a digital tensiometer which indicates very precisely the tension of the rigging cables. This device, which measures tension in almost all the different types of single-stranded, textile rod ropes, ensures rigor in rigging adjustment.
? It's an evolution in the way we work.. "explains Philippe Berardo, head of Atelier Gréement, " Our profession is becoming more professional and standards are being established that we apply with care. This is demonstrated by the systematic use of the blood pressure monitor. ?
For the user who entrusts his boat to Atelier Gréement, it is the assurance of sailing with a "factory" tuned boat, according to the parameters given by the different manufacturers (mast and hull).
