With Persico standing behind the 69F boats, these carefully tested one design foilers and Santi Lange standing behind training up their young crews, grand prix foiling really did just get much more accessible.
Known all over the world for their glues which are commonly found in blister packs in general stores and specialist DIY superstores the Araldite brand is well known to all DIY enthusiasts. But in the field of ocean racing, it is still a little more difficult to know which products are best for boatyards and sailors.
Following the strategic decision to enter the world of competitive sailing, Araldite made significant inroads by introducing a dedicated resource within their website focused on the simulation of structural bonding, called Material Models.
Already prominent in other high-tech industries (wind, space, automotive, etc.), Araldite adhesives have until now been little used in the marine field (see our article), despite the brand’s reputation for resin systems, which are highly valued and used by boatyards…
How the world of sailing and boating and in particular competitive racing became an obvious target for Araldite, a leading global brand that produces for 70 years composite systems and adhesives.
After winning the Transat Jacques Vabre for the fourth time in 2017, Jean-Pierre Dick launched the ETF Series in 2018, a circuit raced on ETF26 one-design foiling catamarans today attempting to attract more pro teams.
With 8 boats out of 33 equipped with its hooks at the start of the 2020 Vendée Globe, going on to take first and third places at the finish, ProFurl has made a successful comeback in ocean racing.
When the Vendée Globe starts Sunday November 8 there will be 13 out of the 33 starters who have put their faith in an NKE pilot to help helm their Imoca – a fairly stable market share over the years.
The Australian Zhik brand formalized signed last August an exclusive distribution partnership with Plastimo to develop their presence in the French and Belgian market.
It is a topic that continues to have increased importance within the sailboat racing world: sustainable development. Under pressure from the public, some sponsors and its own constituent sailors competitive sailing continues to focus on sustainability as a fundamental topic….
It is pretty much the universal fear which inhabits the minds of offshore racers: worrying about collisions with the an unseen floating object. In a fraction of a second such an incident can eliminate a sailor from the Vendée Globe or the Route du Rhum. French company BSB Marine has developed a computer vision system named Oscar.
Those amazing images of foilers flat out, raising delicate, directed spumes of spray remind us that sailing is in the midst of a new sporting and technological era. But behind the flying, foiling revolution there is another, perhaps less visible paradigm shift, the explosion of data. The domain of AIM45.
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