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to enhance the performance of
your boat.
Over the next 10 years we’re going
Navtec supplies to see a lot more composite rigging BELOW Scandinavian design is well-known and
respected throughout the world rigging in make its way into the production
virtually all its boat market. Right now, though, the
forms — from boatbuilders are all still using wire
wire through rod and rod. The small boats are still Ty Goss
to the latest in rigged with wire, and the majority custom sales
composite rigging of boats over 35ft-40ft are being
rigged in rod. At the top end of the
production market, Nautor’s Swan
has built nine Swan 90s. Four of those Rigging in
nine were rigged in rod with the other
fi ve being rigged with composite all of its
rigging. That’s a trend that’s going to
increase, and work its way down the forms
size range.
At the moment the difference in
price is signifi cant. If we start with
customised avtec supplies rigging the cost of a set of wire rigging, then
products on its rod equivalent would be two to
request. I think two-and-a-half times as much, and
Scandinavian composite rigging would be fi ve to
design is well-known N
in virtually all its forms
— from wire through
rod to the latest in
composite rigging. PBO seven times as much. But as the
and respected and other types of composite rigging
throughout the world are now well established in the
and our focus is on superyacht and racing market, but “Over the next 10 years
good design, light weight and high we’re starting to see more demand we’re going to see a lot
strength. in the production and cruising boat more composite rigging
Some of our competitors have market now too. It’s very simple to make its way into the
started to move into composite do a retrofi t on a cruising boat for a production boat market”
rigging, but that’s not something Blue Kevlar or PBO backstay, for example.
Wave will be moving into in the near We’ve seen the production
future. Our business focus is very boatbuilding market go very soft
much on the production boat market, for the last six to eight months, product develops, the price gets better
and for that market we believe that but the aftermarket has been quite too. When I was a kid, a computer
wire and rod rigging remain the best strong this year, particularly in took up the size of a room in a house
products for a market that is very the demand for composite rigging. and wasn’t affordable to many, and
price sensitive. Right now, with the Maybe that’s because people are it wasn’t anything like as powerful
world recession, production boats holding on to their boats for longer as one of today’s $600 laptops. We’ve
are suffering a great deal and most rather than trading up to a new already seen this happening with
companies will think twice before one. So they spend more money the move from aluminium to carbon
they start to use fi bre rigging on a on upgrading their existing boat, masts and the same thing’s going to
production boat. and composite rigging is a nice way happen with composite rigging.
In my opinion people have
fl irted with it, tried it, but it’s also LEFT Navtec has seen the
expensive, and with the current production boatbuilding
market conditions, now is not the market go very soft for the
time for the production boat market last six to eight months,
to get into composite rigging. It will particularly in the demand
happen at some point, but wire is for composite rigging
still the dominant material, with rod
accounting for perhaps about 25 per
cent of the production boat market.
All things considered, 2009 has
been a reasonable year for Blue
Wave. Luckily we do a fair bit of
architectural and industrial work. If
we were relying just on the marine
business, things would be much more
diffi cult with the market fl uctuations
we are seeing right now.
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