How to rig an Endeavour, MK 3/4

Here is the procedure, for the MK/3, also the same for the MK/4. The number of sail eyelets may differ according to the age of the yacht.

1) Fit bowsprit to front deck staple with screw eye and secure with pin through front mount bracket.

2) Connect boom to mast with screw eyes and fit mast to mast mount bracket with pin. The mast can then be held in position by a rigging cord (Shroud) that ties around the mast just above the front mast screw eye, knot it through the screw eye and then pass each end of the cord down, fitting a bowsie on the way to the deck screw eye, through the screw eye and return up to be tied off at the bowsie. Allow a travel length of about halfway up the shroud for the bowsie adjustment.

3) Starting with the main sail, connect bottom front corner eyelet to bottom mast screw eye with cord, (Some models may have brass wire here). Drop two brass rings onto the mast. Tie cord through top eyelet of sail then through mast top hole, pull tight and tie twice around mast. Tie the two eyelets in front edge of main sail to brass rings on mast with cord.
Then, with mast in vertical position, run a cord with bowsie fitted from the port deck screw eye up and through the forward facing screw eye and tie around mast at the same time, run the cord down to the starboard deck screw eye fitting another bowsie here to aid centralising the mast position.

4) Connect the bottom of the jib sail to the jib spar by passing the brass wire attachments of the jib spar through the sail eyelets, attach a cord to the top jib sail eyelet and tie through the screw eye on the mast checking the mast is vertical. The jib spar will have underneath two hoops on the sail attaching brass wire, through these fit a cord with a bowsie and from the rear attach with a small hook to the screw eye at front of mast mount.

5) Finally, fit one small, one large brass ring to the boom, tie a cord through the main sail rear bottom eyelet and thread through the hole at rear of boom, pull tight and twice tie around boom, (Some earlier yachts have a screw eye fitted to the rear of the boom instead of drilled hole). Tie the bottom edge sail eyelet to the smaller boom brass ring with cord. Tie a cord to the larger brass ring and run down through rear deck screw eye, then forwards to the deck screw eye amidships or if you have steering to the port screw eye and return, using a bowsie to adjust the main sail cord.