> Coastal cruising : are you sailing with the coast in sight or from island to island? Find affordable and easy to use spliced ropes in our selection.
> Offshore cruising: : are you sailing on the open sea and embarking on long trips? Our products meet the needs of semi-offshore sailing by ensuring reliability, safety and durability.
Lightness and high resistance for optimal use ? Lightness and high resistance for optimal use ? We know that the spliced ropes required for regattas and offshore racing have their own specific requirements. Our range of custom-made, tested and approved seagoing ropes will meet your needs.
Textile connectors: A guide to help you select it ! Purchase guide for textile connectors Souvent appelées ‘manilles’ ou ‘erses à bouton’, la présentation des accroches textiles n’est plus à faire. Gain de place et de poids pour une résistance égale ou accrue, polyvalentes de par leurs multiples usages (accroches de poulie, d’écoute, de drisse…
Which fibre for which use? A chafe sleeve protects rope where there is exposure to chafing (cleats, sheaves, winch, etc.)). The role of a chafe sleeve is to increase the rope’s lifespan: when it is worn, it is changed rather than having to replace the rope. This practical brief will help you to choose the…
Finally, the Ino-Padeye is available online! At the end of last year, the Ino-Padeye, our latest innovation designed in collaboration with VMG Yacht Design, received a special mention from the DAME Design Awards during the METSTRADE professional boatshow, in the Netherlands. We are proud to inform you that this new product is finally on the…
[BOOK] A comprehensive guidebook on modern ropework ! Many of you follow our ropework tutorials on our blog. Many of you also ask us technical questions about materials, rope structures, textile connectors, etc. Good news! All the answers to your questions can be found in the “Modern Ropework & Sailing Knots” guide, published in partnership…
Dyneema, tell me what you are! Like “Kleenex, Scotch or Frigidaire”, Dyneema is a commercial brand name, a pretty little name, much sexier than “high modulus polyethylene”, the petroleum that it refers to. Dyneema has been commercialized since 1990 by the Dutch company DSM, which controls the fabrication process under license. In the United States,…
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…
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