Eastern Star - 48 ft Wooden Daysail Ketch

Eastern Star is a beautiful 48 ft wooden ketch built in Denmark in 1948. She has been operating out of Lunenburg for almost 30 years as a reliable daysail boat and uses a modern ketch rig. All of her rigging is 1×19 stainless with sta-lock fittings. Ironbound Rigging was asked to replace all of the standing rig while re-using the sta-lock fittings. With the masts still in place, we would send down a few shrouds at a time and remove the fittings with heat and persuasion and re-install on the new 1×19 wire with new cones and formers. By taking extra care, we were able to re-use all of the fittings which saved the customer a lot of money.
We also replaced some of the running rigging, as well as installing a new harken furler. We helped rig up a storm staysail in the event the boat was to be used for offshore cruising.