Manufactured by C-Tech®
www.sailbattens.com
C-Tech manufacture the CT Sailbattens range of carbon fibre sail battens. These are based around a hollow rectangular batten shape with a continuous taper.
Strong, light-weight and durable, CT Sailbattens are recognised as the best product on the market by world class sailors. They are available for a wide range of superyachts, round the world racing yachts, multi-hulls and America's Cup yachts.
Team NZ racing in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, Auckland 2009
CT Sailbattens supplied hardware to every America's Cup yacht in this regatta
Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland 2010
Emirates Team New Zealand have won the Louis Vuitton Trophy following their recent Omega Cup win, in both cases proving to be masters of their class. Once again dominating the world of racing they have beaten runners up Mascalzone Latino Audi from Italy in the semi final.
Two Emirates Team New Zealand boats were match racing during this regatta, both with CT Sailbattens onboard.
Products in the CT Sailbattens range include:
2010 Groupama 3 knocks 2 days off the round the world record with CT Sailbattens
The French trimaran Groupama 3 has knocked 2 days and 8 hours off the round the world record held by Orange 2 and Bruno Peyron in 2005. The Jules Verne trophy now belongs to Franck Cammas and his crew, with the new record of 48 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. Groupama 3 sailed with CT40 sailbattens onboard, specifically designed for very large multihulls.
2010 Banque Populaire V - A mainsail of just 1kg per m2.. including battens
To keep the rig weight as low as possible, the maxi trimaran Banque Populaire V uses hollow monolithic carbon battens manufactured by C-Tech. Kevin Escoffier with the BP V project from the start claims that these battens are "absolutely as good as you can get right now". Not so long ago these long battens would regularly fail during manoeuvres, but BP V has not suffered a single failure since her launch.
2009 C-Tech launched an innovative new product - CT SnuffAir
Manufactured by C-Tech and new to the market in 2009 CT SnuffAir is a revolutionary inflatable spinnaker retrieval system that replaces the solid hoop or bucket traditionally used with spinnaker socks.
Available for yachts 60ft and above a complete unit is available or the SnuffAir can be retro-fitted to an existing sock.
www.snuffair.com
