High tech rigging solutions

Thanks to the use of innovative, high module fibres such as PBO-Zylon®, aramidic fibres and Dyneema®, textile rigging, nowadays, is one of the projecting areas in the field of yacht designing where you can gain a lot in terms of lightness and performance. Softrig responds to this demand by planning, producing and testing complete, high-tech rigging textile solutions, by conveying into their projects the experience of renowned professionals, maturated in years of application to the sector of rigging and production of highly-performing lines/hawsers/ ropes, made with high-tech fibres. A vanguard technology and a company workflow optimised to meet personalised requirements, make Softrig an emerging reality in the fibre rigging sector. The operational premises at Carasco, province of Genoa - where the cables are made and tested with a 150 ton testing bed -, are located only three km from the harbour of Lavagna, a strategic point for Italian yachting, actually central if compared with the countries looking onto the Mediterranean Sea. Softrig seek continual improvement in their rigging systems, to guarantee products that perform better and better, and are ever more safer. Softrig: high tech rigging solutions The availability of an internal, testing bed and of all the most advanced technologies is fundamental in allowing for the projecting and development of complete rigging solutions, demanded by both the regatta and cruising yacht project designers, as well as by the best skippers of regatta mono-hulls and multi-hulls. For a few years now, Softrig have been carrying out tests on very highly performing boats; thanks to the acquisition of the data deriving from such exacting navigation, taking place under all sea meteorological conditions, they can guarantee absolutely reliable rigging solutions.