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Soft shackles

Marko Novak — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:13:34 +0000

NEW

Now we can offer you soft shackles from our own production line. For now we offer three standard soft shackles. They are all made of 100% dyneema fiber and they are all prestretched before shipping. They are all self tightening (no milking required to close the loop) and easy to open.

Custom lengths and diameters are also available.

rope dia shackle length loop length SWL SWL as loop

2 mm 90 mm 45 mm 133 kg 266 kg

4 mm 200 mm 100 mm 530 kg 1060 kg

6 mm 270 mm 135 mm 970 kg 1940 kg

Soft shackles testing device

Marko Novak — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:30:18 +0000

Msailing has finally designed and assembled our own simple testing bed for soft shackles and rope loops. From now on all soft shackles and loops bought from us will be prestretched on that device. We will hopefully soon upgrade it with a load sensor so we will be able to determine exactly to which loads we load our soft shackles and loops.

New Shipman 72

Marko Novak — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:11:57 +0000

In close cooperation with Hall Spars BV we have helped with stepping of a carbon Hall Spars BV mast with Future Fibres PBO rigging on a new Shipman 72 – Alba 2 for our client Seaway Technologies. We also connected steering system with vectran ropes and installed all running rigging on this beautiful looking yacht.

Soft shackles

Marko Novak — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:59:06 +0000

Soft shackles are getting more and more popular. They are simple, cheap and they do not damage your boat when smashing around. In the pictures below you can see three different types of shackles. We strongly recommend the one from the left picture. It has all the advantages of the other two and none of the setbacks. The main advantage over the left one which you can get in every sailing shop is that it is self tightening.

It is up to you. You can make your own soft shackles or you can trust us to make them for you. You can find great tutorial on how to make soft shackles on L-36.com.

Rigging jobs and yacht maintenance

Marko Novak — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:42:00 +0000

Spring and summer of 2012 were quite busy times for us since we did quite a few rigging jobs (Hall Spars BV and Future Fibres), managed major maintenance/refit job of exterior and interior of a sailng yacht Shipman 63 – Tucana and secured a contract for regular maintenance of another Shipman 63, that is an eight years old prototype named Mahi Mahi. On attached pictures you can see what happens with carbon furling foils and PBO forestay if boatyard travel lift crashes into it, we are also showing Future Fibres stay quietTM system which dampens PBO rigging vibrations. That particular one was installed on a brand new Shipman 63 – Mantra. We also did a rod forestay replacement for a Swan 82.

Shipman 63 Tucana rigging winterization

Marko Novak — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:01:23 +0000

Our final rigging job of successful 2011 cooperation with Andrej Paš. Yesterday Msailing and Adrej took the massive carbon V boom and 25 m long mast off Shipman 63 – Tucana. Boat is equipped with carbon mast, boom from Hall Spars BV and PBO rigging from Future Fibres. Next week we will disassemble everything, do a complete running and standing rigging check, grease, polish, clean and assemble everything back together to be ready for putting back on the boat in March 2012. Msailing wishes you great holidays and we hope to work with you in 2012.

Solaris 60 by Serigi mast and rigging

Marko Novak — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:56:31 +0000

Another Hall Spars BV carbon mast is proudly standing on an astonishing looking sailing yacht Solaris 60 by Serigi, designed by Bill Tripp. This job was again done in cooperation with Andrej Paš S. P. Stepping of mast took place in Grado, Italy. Mast is secured on the boat with NAVTEC nitronic rod rigging, which is a shame. For a beautiful boat like this, they should use at least PBO if not carbon rigging.

New sails for new Shipman 63 – 24

Marko Novak — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:09:27 +0000

Another successful project with Andrej Paš. We have installed running rigging and new ultra light carbon sails from Z sails on a brand new carbon racer-cruiser Shipman 63 produced by Seaway Group. Mast was stepped on the boat and dock tuned just one day prior to sails installation and hoisting. This ultra modern carbon boat has carbon fibre mast and V boom from Hall Spars BV. Mast is held in place by Future Fibres PBO fibre rigging. Job was done in Marina Portorož on Slovenian coast. The boat was really an eye catcher with people walking by, taking photos and admiring the boat. Now we are off to Italy to Solaris for stepping of Solaris 60 mast in Grado.