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Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging
One Hundred and Fifty Steps to Help You Get the Most
From the Rigging of Your Rowing Equipment
Tenth Anniversary Edition
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CONTENTS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- WHY A BOOK ABOUT ROWING EQUIPMENT?
- WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK?
- WHAT THE BOOK COVERS
- READERS’ REACTIONS
- ABOUT THE ASSOCIATED WEB SITE
NUTS AND BOLTS TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BOOK DETAILS
NEWS RELEASE
SAMPLE BOOK REVIEW
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Background Information
Why a book about rowing equipment?
Rowers and coaches need to rig their rowing equipment, but where do they start? With this book, the most popular book on rigging ever written. The only book that explains all the steps that need to be taken to rig rowing equipment… in a down-to-earth, humorous style.
This book discusses hundreds of effective ways for getting the most from rowing equipment, such as:
- Using the right tools, the right way
- Learning the details on all rigging measurements
- Preparing your equipment for practices and races
- Safely transporting your equipment
- How to buy new and used boats
- Designs to make your own tools
- How to measure and adjust all rigging measurements
- Finding the correct rigging numbers
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging contains a wealth of information to help with the mechanics, theories, and realities of the rigging of rowing equipment. This book is divided into three sections. Each section covers specific aspects of rigging and is the most comprehensive resource for rigging on the market today.
Nuts and Bolts explains the technology of rigging, along with the basics. Perhaps you’ve heard that rigging is hard? Many coaches and rowers are told that, but they are never told what they can do to make it easier for themselves. That is, until now.
This book contains many useful tips and tricks, and is full of commonsense advice. Between the covers, the reader will discover:
- The best ways to buy and use rigging tools
- Methods to rig almost any type of rowing equipment
- How to identify rigging problems
- Methods to solve rigging problems
- How to find answers to tough equipment questions
- Ways to ensure rigging solutions will work
- How to buy, store, and maintain rowing equipment
Who Needs This Book?
In essence, any sweep rower, sculler, or rowing coach who deals with rowing equipment will benefit from this book. The book is aimed at anyone who wants to maximize their rowing equipment—but who doesn’t have huge sums of money or unlimited time available.
What the Book Covers.
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is broken down into three sections:
- Rigging Concepts—The reader learns about the basics behind rowing and rowing equipment usage. (Six chapters)
- Rigging Specifics—In this section the reader is exposed to many of the more detailed parts of rigging, including the physics of rowing and the major and minor adjustments that can and should be made. (Eight chapters)
- Rigging Extras—In these seven chapters the reader learns how to enhance the rigging of rowing equipment, including many of the topics that can cause immense problems (i.e., transporting equipment).
Readers’ Reactions.
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging has received national and international acclaim. Dean Travis Clarke, Executive Editor of Sport Fishing, Marlin, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters and Boating Life Magazines, and host of Sport Fishing TV stated that, “Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is one of the finest examples of technical writing I’ve ever seen.” And George Kirschbaum, author of the Down and Dirty Guide to Coxing wrote that the Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is “The one book I DON’T lend out. . . it’s too valuable not to have on my bookshelf.” Joe Murtaugh, lightweight men’s coach at Princeton University and two-time World Champion coach of the US Men’s Lightweight Eight stated, “(this book is) a must read. This book demystifies and simplifies rigging. Full of useful, practical information. Every serious coach should own this book.”
About the Associated Web Site
There is a specific Web site associated with the book (http://www.maxrigging.com).
This site contains free articles, subscription to a free electronic newsletter, free Web forms, low-cost documents, and so on. Readers who are interested in learning more about the book can find a full Table of Contents, sample chapters, reader testimonials, and reviewer’s comments.
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging
10th Anniversary Edition
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE: USING THIS BOOK
1.1 DEFINITIONS
1.2 METRIC VS. U.S. CUSTOMARY SYSTEM
1.3 LAYOUT
1.4 TYPES OF ROWING EQUIPMENT
1.5 READ IT
CHAPTER TWO: THE KARMA OF RIGGING
2.1 THE BIG PICTURE
2.2 MINDSET OF A RIGGER
2.3 WHO ARE YOU?
2.4 SO WHADDAYA KNOW?
CHAPTER THREE: THE KARMA OF TOOLS
3.1 THE NITTY GRITTY
3.2 METRIC SYSTEM VS. U.S. CUSTOMARY SYSTEM
3.3 THE TOOLS
3.4 TURNING TOOLS
3.5 MEASURING TOOLS
3.6 HOLDING TOOLS
3.7 HITTING TOOLS
3.8 SPECIAL RIGGING TOOLS
3.9 MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS
3.10 GETTING THE STUFF
CHAPTER FOUR: THE EQUIPMENT
4.1 TOUR OF THE EQUIPMENT
4.2 THE PARTS
4.3 HOW IT WORKS
CHAPTER FIVE: RIGGING SAFETY
5.1 SUPER RIGGER
5.2 BEING SAFE WITH TOOLS
CHAPTER SIX: YOUR RIGGING ENVIRONMENT
6.1 HOW THE ENVIRONMENT IMPACTS YOUR RIGGING
6.2 HOW YOUR RIGGING IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE FIRST STEPS OF RIGGING
7.1 RIGGING PROCEDURE
7.2 RIGGING NUMBERS
7.3 RIGGING NUMBERS OF THE FOOT STRETCHER
7.4 RIGGING NUMBERS OF THE OAR
7.5 RIGGING NUMBERS OF THE RIGGER
7.6 RIGGING NUMBERS OF THE SHELL
7.7 MISCELLANEOUS NUMBERS
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ARCS
8.1 RIGGING AND THE ARCS
8.2 OUTSIDE ARC
8.3 INSIDE ARC
8.4 IMPORTANCE OF ARC
CHAPTER NINE: LEVERAGE
9.1 LEVERAGE AND THE BALANCING ACT
9.2 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS (NOT A ROCK GROUP)
9.3 LEVERAGE AND THE ARCS (NOT A ROCK GROUP EITHER)
9.4 SLIPPAGE
CHAPTER TEN: RIGGER PITCH
10.1 TYPES OF PITCH
10.2 WHERE PITCH COMES FROM
10.3 IMPORTANCE OF PITCH
10.4 PITCH PROBLEMS
CHAPTER ELEVEN: RIGGER HEIGHT
11.1 THE ZONES
11.2 BITS AND PIECES
11.3 WHEN TO ADJUST?
11.4 GENERIC VS. BRAND NAME
CHAPTER TWELVE: WORK-THRU
12.1 WHY PLACE THE ARCS CORRECTLY?
12.2 WAYS TO LOCATE THE ARCS
12.3 FINE-TUNING THE FORE AND AFT LOCATION OF THE ARCS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS
13.1 FOOT STRETCHERS
13.2 OARS
13.3 SHELL
13.4 STIFFNESS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: YOUR RIGGING NUMBERS
15.1 WHAT ARE RIGGING NUMBERS?
15.2 WHEN DO YOU NEED RIGGING NUMBERS?
15.3 WHY DO YOU NEED RIGGING NUMBERS?
15.4 DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THIS, THAT, AND TRICKS
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: TAKING YOUR EQUIPMENT FOR A TRIP
17.1 WHY FOCUS ON SAFE TRAVELING?
17.2 HOW TO TRAVEL SAFELY
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: KEEPING YOUR EQUIPMENT ALIVE
CHAPTER NINETEEN: STORING YOUR EQUIPMENT
19.1 THE VILLAINS
19.2 THE EVILS
CHAPTER TWENTY: BUYING ROWING EQUIPMENT
20.1 A SUCCESSFUL PURCHASE
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: RIGGING FOR SCULLING
21.1 KARMA OF RIGGING FOR SCULLING
21.2 DIFFERENCE #1: INSIDE A SKULL (WITH A K, NOT A C)
21.3 DIFFERENCE #2: INSIDE A SCULL (WITH A C, NOT K)
21.4 SCULLING EQUIPMENT
A PARTING THOUGHT
APPENDIX ONE: RIGGER TALK
APPENDIX TWO: WEB DOCUMENTS
SPECIAL REPORTS
WORKSHEETS
APPENDIX THREE: RESOURCES
BOOKS
SUPPLIERS
APPENDIX FOUR: TRAVEL LIST CHECK-OFF
CREDITS
INDEX
About the Author
Mike Davenport, Ed.D., is the Head Rowing coach at Washington College, a Division III NCAA member institution. He has been coaching rowing for over twenty-eight years, and has authored eight books. His company, SportWork, has a mission to “help coaches survive, thrive, and excel in the new world of sports.”
Mike was the boatman for the U.S. National Rowing team for many years, including the 1996 U.S. Olympic Rowing team. He and his family live in Maryland.
Book Details
Title: Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging: Tenth Anniversary Edition: One Hundred and Fifty Steps to Help You Get the Most from the Rigging of Your Rowing Equipment
Author: Mike Davenport, Ed.D.
Publisher: SportWork, Inc
Contact information: For questions related to this review, contact Mike Davenport at mike@maxrigging.com, or 410-556-6030.
Specifications: 7″ x 10″, 444 pages, 133 illustrations, detailed index, paperback
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 0-963900-9-5
Library of Congress: 92-91056
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News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…
Contact: Mike Davenport (410) 556-6030
HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR ROWING EQUIPMENT
Rowing coaches work hard to produce the best teams possible. They focus on recruiting, training, skill development, and racing strategies. Unfortunately, many of those same coaches often don’t focus on one important thing-how best to utilize their rowing equipment. And this misstep often comes back to haunt them.
Time and time again rowing coaches’ and rowers’ best efforts are thwarted by problems that arise with their rowing equipment, especially in transporting the equipment. Often the outcome of these problems is not pretty such as: rowers being injured from using poorly adjusted or maintained equipment, or races being missed due to rowing equipment that did not arrive on time.
“Rowing coaches work so hard to get their jobs done, and are under great pressure to perform, that often their focus is the team’s performance and not the equipment,” stated Mike Davenport, Ed.D., Head Rowing Coach at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland. “And by forgetting the equipment, or not giving it the complete attention that it needs, athletes, their performance, and the equipment can be at risk.”
Wishing to help rowing coaches and rowers alike get the most out of their equipment, Dr. Davenport conceived, authored, and produced the first edition of the book Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging in 1992. Since then, the book has been the most popular book about rowing equipment and rigging ever written. This tenth anniversary edition builds on the success of the first addition and presents in over one-hundred and fifty steps how to maximize rowing equipment.
Produced in paperback book form, Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging directs coaches and rowers through a series of tasks that are clearly written. “One of the best indications that this book will be helpful,” Davenport says, “comes from comments I often get from rowing coaches when they read the book. Wow . . . I didn’t know that.”
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“Go to your local bookstore and look for a book on rigging. Not much of a selection, is there? But notice all the books on every other subject known to man. Why the difference?
“For a multitude of reasons, there is a lot of secrecy, confusion, and mystery surrounding rigging. Starting here, I hope to take away some of the mystique about rigging and rowing equipment, and to help you get comfortable with it.”
And so begins the tenth anniversary edition of the pioneering book, Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging: One Hundred and Fifty Steps to Help You Get the Most From the Rigging of Your Rowing Equipment, by Mike Davenport, Ed.D. (SportWork, 2002).
This refreshing book is an entertaining and needed resource for rowing coaches who must often handle great quantities of equipment, but who often are not given the direction or the resources to do the job. While coaches are under more and more pressure to be competitive, they are also under increased demand to purchase, maintain, adjust, and transport equipment. Just recently a study was done that indicated that 41% of rowing coaches were moderately to highly stressed by rigging.
An informative, soft-cover book, Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging acts more as a guide than a how-to-book. It addresses many concerns coaches have about equipment, rigging, and rowing, and puts rigging in a light that often is not shined, that of not being a tedious chore, but instead of being fun and enjoyable. Loaded with diagrams, the book gently guides coaches to excel with something that many coaches dislike.
The book is filled with specific, well-written steps that address getting the most from rowing equipment. It also contains many different procedures and jobs that need to be completed to get the most from that equipment. This was the first book written specifically about rigging in such a style, and has been the best selling book on rigging ever written.
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging assumes that the vast majority of coaches and rowers want to rig their equipment well. However, it is often those same folks who struggle with rigging, wasting time, energy, and sometimes their boat’s speed because they don’t have the tools or knowledge to get the job done right. In an aggressive fashion the book gives the reader the guidance, encouragement, and direction so that he or she can do the job well.
Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging has receiving national and international acclaim. Dean Travis Clarke, Executive Editor of Sport Fishing, Marlin, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters and Boating Life Magazines, and host of Sport Fishing TV stated that, “Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is one of the finest examples of technical writing I’ve ever seen.” And George Kirschbaum, author of the Down and Dirty Guide to Coxing wrote that the Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is “The one book I DON’T lend out. . . it’s too valuable not to have on my bookshelf.” Joe Murtaugh, lightweight men’s coach at Princeton University and two-time World Champion coach of the US Men’s Lightweight Eight stated, “(this book is) a must read. This book demystifies and simplifies rigging. Full of useful, practical information. Every serious coach should own this book.”
Rowing coaches, especially collegiate coaches, are under a lot of pressure from many avenues. They need information and tools to work with their equipment in a positive and constructive way. Nuts and Bolts Guide to Rigging is a book whose time has come and fills that need. It will help those coaches and rowers do what needs to be done to keep themselves, their programs, and their equipment in the best shape possible.
