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Wire Versus PBO Comparison

“Is it Time to Upgrade to PBO Rigging? Jesse Falsone developed a custom Excel spreadsheet to compare the weight savings and performance gains of PBO rigging.

Shop Tour: Reaching for Higher Tech, Pt. 1

By the lake just east of Cleveland, Fairport Yachts builds C&Cs; and Tartans at one facility and long carbon products under the Novis Composites brand at another. We did a shop tour of both operations last week, beginning with Novis, the mast maker.

Changes in Racing Sails and Sailmaking

North’s 3DL technology may lead the grand prix market, but other sailmakers have worked hard to developed their own laminate-sail technology. An in-depth look at the state of the art of sailmaking. From our May 2004 issue.

Sailmakers’ Speak

Broadseaming-cutting panels on a curve or sewing panels with a variable overlap to create depth in a sail; shape is also created through curve in

Common Racing-Sail Material

Aramid: (aka Kevlar, Twaron, and Technora) A manufactured, high-modulus fiber with excellent strength-to-weight ratio and negligible creep. Its weaknesses are poor abrasion resistance and susceptiblity

Why Nylon Still Rules the Run

Like many club racers, Mike Kirkland of Bellingham, Wash., has only one spinnaker for his Nordic 34, a boat best known as a cruiser. Nevertheless,

Wire Versus PBO Comparison

“Is it Time to Upgrade to PBO Rigging? Jesse Falsone developed a custom Excel spreadsheet to compare the weight savings and performance gains of PBO rigging.

Shop Tour: Reaching for Higher Tech, Pt. 1

By the lake just east of Cleveland, Fairport Yachts builds C&Cs; and Tartans at one facility and long carbon products under the Novis Composites brand at another. We did a shop tour of both operations last week, beginning with Novis, the mast maker.

Changes in Racing Sails and Sailmaking

North’s 3DL technology may lead the grand prix market, but other sailmakers have worked hard to developed their own laminate-sail technology. An in-depth look at the state of the art of sailmaking. From our May 2004 issue.

Sailmakers’ Speak

Broadseaming-cutting panels on a curve or sewing panels with a variable overlap to create depth in a sail; shape is also created through curve in

Common Racing-Sail Material

Aramid: (aka Kevlar, Twaron, and Technora) A manufactured, high-modulus fiber with excellent strength-to-weight ratio and negligible creep. Its weaknesses are poor abrasion resistance and susceptiblity

Why Nylon Still Rules the Run

Like many club racers, Mike Kirkland of Bellingham, Wash., has only one spinnaker for his Nordic 34, a boat best known as a cruiser. Nevertheless,

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