Saturday, March 27, 2010

Point du Raz

See below for a classic clip of Raz at full force

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Grpms start distribut Kovax abrasives

Grpms start distribut Kovax Time Saving Abrasives. Kovax is a producer and supplier of innovative and time saving abrasives for the yacht building, automotive, painting and woodworking industry.
Why Kovax?
  • Complete product range
  • Time savings up to 50%
  • Very long lifetime
  • Extremely uniform sanding result
  • Excels in aggressiveness and cutting power

SWE772 in Pornichet

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Greetings from Pornichet


I just arrived at Pornichet after a rather long trip down from Stockholm.SWE 772 will get its antifauling and NKE instrument done here by Charles at Yacht-Man who runs Oceanskill. I will post some clips from the trip when I am back in Sweden.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Pantaenius


SWE772 is now insured through Pantaenius
Pantaenius is one of the leading yacht insurance brokers in Europe and looks back on more than a hundred years of experience. For over 30 years now it has had a separate corporate branch concerned exclusively with the insurance of yachts.

Important advantages

  • Agreed value
  • New for old
  • Worldwide cover
  • Global network
  • Deductible - not necessary
  • Loss of personal effects or their damage
  • Bonus up to 40%
  • Regatta sailing
  • Electronics
  • Third party
  • Sailing season

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010

Dry era of sailing. URSUIT!

As a result of many years of development Ursuit has brought to the market a new dry suit collection that fulfills the requirements of deep-sea-sailing and those of costal classes. The Gemino Operative suit is especially suitable for the Transat 6.50 extreme sailing environment where your life depends on keeping dry and warm whilst still having the ease of movement.
I will be using following products from Ursuit in my campaign:

· Gemino Operative 4-Tex (Red)
· MPS Multi purpose
· X-Tex Light Finnfill 0,83
· Next to skin
· 5001 Survival suit


European organizations using Ursuit:

  • Defence forces: Navy and Navy dive special forces,
  • Diving land forces, Land forces moving at sea
  • Police and Special Police forces,
  • National Border Guard air and sea forces
  • Professional divers and fishermen and others working at sea
  • Sea Rescue societies (SAR)
  • Fire and Rescue departments
  • Rescue Instruction centres and organizations Sport and technical diving instructors