OUR EXPERIENCE
sailing
1972-1980 Dinghy sailing National 12, Contender, 505, 420, 470, Fireball, Tornado
1980-1984 J24, J29 Solent
1984 2nd place J24 World championships Poole bay with Ed Baird
1985 SORC on C&C 44 with Ed Baird and designer Rob Ball
1985-6 X 1 tonner Framboise - Admirals Cup trials, RORC races
1986 Beneteau 1 tonner Fair Lady - 1st place Cowes Week Class 1
1987 - 1996 Humphreys 50 Blizzard, Admiral Cup trials, RORC races, 50 foot regatta’s Miami, Key West, Puerto Rico. Antigua Race week.
1992- Antigua Classic week 66ft Ketch Dione
1998-9 - J Class Velsheda, Antigua Classic week with Endeavour, Navigator for Solent regatta with Endeavour and Shamrock
2000 - J Class Velsheda bi-centennial round the Isle of Wight race as navigator, Tom Dodson from Americas Cup Team New Zealand as tactician.
2020 to date Bristol channel sailing from Swansea
RIGGING
1984 - Founder of rod rigging company Riggarna UK. Established rigging lofts in Lymington UK, Antibes France, Portsmouth Rhode Island and San Diego California
1985 - Designed and built rigging for 12 metres Crusader British Americas Cup Challenge, Kookaburra, French Kiss and Italian Americas Cup Challenge. Carried out sailing trials and provided rigging support in Fremantle Australia during Americas Cup.
1985-87 - Supplied Rigging for numerous Admirals Cup contenders including, Brava, Propaganda, Jade, Panda, Indulgence, Mean Machine, Juno, Jamarella and many more.
1987-1989 - Designed and built rod rigging for numerous Whitbread round the world maxis including Peter Blake’s Steinlager 2, Fisher and Paykel, The Card, Rothmans and Merit.
1987-1989 - Designed and built streamline cobalt rigging for circuit maxis Il Moro de Venezia, Matador and Longobarda. Offered full rigging support at Maxi regattas.
1988-1995 - Designed and built rigging for Americas Cup challengers in San diego California, offering full rigging support from workshop in San Diego
1989-1990 Provided rigging support for the 1989-90 Whitbread around the world race including mast and rigging inspection at every stopover including Punte del Este in South America and Fremantle in Australia.
1990 - Designed and built fittings for kevlar composite rigging and pioneered carbon standing rigging for several 50 footers.
1992 - Diversified into architectural rigging projects. Designed and built complex rigging for a glass atrium on Richard Rogers new building in Kabuki-cho tokyo.
1993 - Constructed Spitfire wing replica at either end of Heathrow entrance tunnel. Supported by solid rod rigging and housing backlit advertising boxes
1993-1994 - Supplied and built rigging for Whitbread round the world race yachts including Grant Dalton’s winning New Zealand Endeavour, Merit Cup and La Poste as well as the new Open 60’s Tokio and Intrum Justitia. Once again full rigging inspections and repairs carried out at stopovers as well as sailing trials in North Atlantic.
1998 - Supplied custom rigging to Prada Americas Cup challenge
1988- 2000 - Designed and built rod rigging for numerous Superyachts up to 170’ in length. including designs from Frers, Farr, Dijkstra, S&S, Holland and Hoek and builders Royal Huismann, Abeking and Rasmussen and Perini Navi.
2000 - Designed and built new standing rigging for J class Velsheda.
2023 - Opened new rigging workshop in South Wales supplying wire, rope and dyneema rigging.