G Yacht Design and Advanced Wing Systems announce a partnership to bring wing sails to Classe Mini 6.50 Advanced Wing Systems (AWS) of Australia and G Yacht Design (GYD) of Argentina are working together to bring the AWS wing sail to the mini transat fleet. Nicholas Goldenberg of GYD says that this is … Read more
Scott Cavanough forced to abandon his boat.. (Source:charentemaritime-bahia.transat650.net) Scott Cavanough (797 – brainchild.org.au) was forced to abandon his 2010 Brett Bakewell-White’s design prototype. The boat dismasted and that severely damaged the bow. The possibility of setting up a jury rig was impossible. Scott got on board the escort boat Pen Ar Clos this morning. Scott … Read more
Ok – I think we’ve left you hanging long enough! A ‘What is it?’ a couple of weeks ago drew a lot of comments and we did promise a story. Here it is: The picture was taken in Gorilla Rigging’s shop in Rhode Island was in fact Jay Sharkey’s new rigging for the Mini 6.50 … Read more
It’s a Mini Transat year and we will be featuring some more innovating rigging solutions from the guys and girls who will be sailing single handed, in a 21ft boat across the Atlantic later on this year. While composite rigging and carbon mast (re-introduced in 2005) are nothing new in this class, the refinements and … Read more
(Source: Bella Mente Racing) The team is back to work on the Bella Mente getting her back to racing shape. The list of mods before Transpac is a large one, not counting the new rig being built for the boat. Brad Fitzgerald is doing a good amount of boat building for us while we try … Read more
Apart from their size, the maxi ‘Lahana’ and Scotty Cav’s new mini have plenty in common. Both are from the drawing board of Bakewell-White and are rigged by Southern Spars. This is prove that size really doesn’t matter and yes – the minis prod is longer….