What is Rigging Hardware?

Rigging hardware is used to secure, lift, and suspend loads. Rigging itself is the chains, ropes, and cables that tie items down or lift them. The sailor is familiar with the rigging used to set and furl sails, as well as the associated hardware, which includes blocks, shackles, and winches.

Rigging hardware is the equipment that attaches rigging to loads and combines it into a system that can safely support heavy objects. It includes turnbuckles, shackles, lifting eye bolts, hook and nuts, yoke and clevis ends, and more.