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C-Tech CT SnuffAir on S/Y Silencio, February 2015




OK Dinghy - Art on Water, August 2014

12ft Skiff Sailing with C-Tech, Okahu bay Nov' 2013

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​18' Skiff CT Sailbattens San Fran 2011

SK4 Skiff with C-Tech spars sailed by Matt Kiddle

12' Skiff Interdom's 2011, 1st-3rd to C-Tech

 

Torkel Stillefors sails in Sweden on his B&R 23 with a C-Tech mast, boom, prod, mast-step and spreaders

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C-Tech Articles

Confused? by C-Tech's Marketing Manager Chris Kitchen, sailinganarchy.com, August 2014

This is a shot of the very rare 'reverse mine' captured on Kiwi composite company C-Tech's 18ft Skiff foredeck mounted camera during product testing of CT PlateBattens on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf... read more 
 

A whole industry rides the Kiwi boat by feature editor Dieter Loibner, Boats.com, July 2013

New Zealand companies say America's Cup success or failure will influence their bottom lines...C-Tech, run by skiff sailor Alex Vallings, is a small company but a big player... read more

 

Strong performances in C-Tech's dinghy masts aids companies success published in NZ Marine's newsletter & Discover Boating, July 2013

The 2012 - 2013 season is proving to be a very successful period for C-Tech in the world of dinghy racing... read more

 

Hull design - 12ft Skiff Class by Roger McMillan, editor of Australian Sailing and mysailing.com.au August 2010

If it doesn't go fast enough, get out the chainsaw. That seems to be the motto of the 12ft Skiff Class. The more things change the more they stay the same..... read more
 

OK Dinghy World Champions chat by Robert Deaves, OK Dinghy International Association Press Release, January 2010.

With the 2010 Ok Dinghy World Championship being held next month in 'windy' Wellington, New Zealand, the past three World Champions..... read more

 

C-Tech extending technology from skiffs to America's Cup by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World, April 2009

Most associate the name Alex Vallings with skiff sailing. He's better known for bouncing down the Waitemata harbour tightly attached to a trapeze wire, extended tiller in hand... read more

 

Karl Purdie wins the OK Dinghy Champs with a C-Tech mast by NZ Boating Magazine, 2008

This year was just the culmination of a lot of things learnt from the previous 2 campaigns. I firstly launched a new "icebreaker design" built by Performance Composites Ltd... read more

 

Wing Masts on R-Class and 12ft Skiffs by Alex Vallings, 2005.

20 years ago legendary 9 times winner of the National R-Class Trophy Paul Macintosh built a wing mast. 250mm x 90mm, strip-planked cedar and carbon with a pocket luff sail... read more

 

12ft Skiffs in New Zealand - history by Alex Vallings, 2005

In the 1951-52 winter season at the Glendowie Boating Club, Auckland, Dave Marks sailing his very successful "Pennant" Class boat "Pathetic" convinced some of the locals that... read more