Purchase guide 1/4 How to choose your dock lines ? In the rope category, dock lines, also known as mooring lines or hawsers, are not the star products of the rope family. Yet, with so many fancy names, the must play an important role.Which dock lines should you choose for your boat? First, we examine the…
Purchase guide 3/4 Docking: the right knots The most important mooring knots are the famous two half-hitch knot and the simple but often badly made cleat hitch knot. You can also use the bowline knot but smartly! The bowline knot The bowline knot is the most common loop knot: is used to fasten a sheet…
Purchase guide 2/4 Dock lines: how many and how long? Regarding dock lines, there are definitely two schools! The first is where the smallest locker on board is overflowing with mooring lines of all kinds, from an old piece of Ø 32 dock line as rigid as a justice to the messy rope spool that…
Purchase guide 4/4 Docking: good practice guide Even if there are no good or bad situations, there are obviously some good and bad ways to moor your boat. Without meaning to be indignant with a stern finger and an accusing eye, a quick overview of the pontoons gives an idea of what not to do,…
Spliced ropes: change and set up your running rigging easily! During the refit of his sailboat carried out this winter, Yann replaced his running rigging and ordered some of our ready-to-use items from our Ino-Rope store. Halyards, sheets, roller furler line: he purchased ready-to-use ropes and rigged them in five minutes. He also bought a…
ROUTE DU RHUM RACE Flax for the road! Interview with Roland Jourdain Bilou’s Chinese portrait! The Route du Rhum had not even started when the excitement was already palpable on the pontoons of Concarneau, home port of We Explore, Roland Jourdain’s catamaran. It is the only Outremer 5X to contain 50% flax fibre and the first boat…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 3/3 Which fibres should be used in textile standing rigging? More and more people, competitive sailors and leisure boaters alike, ask us questions about textile standing rigging. What are the different technologies to make a textile cable? Which fibres should be used for textile shrouds? To avoid any misunderstanding, first let’s specify that…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 2/3 Textile standing rigging according to your type of boat For which boats and what programmes is it interesting to have textile standing rigging? What does textile standing rigging impose in terms of installation, tuning, maintenance, lifespan, insurance? Our step-by-step answers. Textile shrouds, the privilege of regatta racers? Filament winding and pultruded UD…
GUIDE D’ACHAT 1/3 Cable standing rigging | The different technologies of textile cable standing rigging Textile cable is the association of a material (aramids, PBO, carbon, Dyneema) with a construction technique (filament winding, pultruded UD, braiding). Each solution is relevant to a type of sailboat and its programme (offshore racing, coastal regatta, open sea cruising,…
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