Rigging: Low Friction Rings
April 15, 2025
Adding low friction rings to your boat’s rigging repertoire can be a lighter, more affordable alternative to line management.
Adding low friction rings to your boat’s rigging repertoire can be a lighter, more affordable alternative to line management.
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With fresh thinking and some risk taking, Lagoon creates a worthy successor to an immensely popular model.
In 2001, SAIL’s then executive editor, Charles Mason, awarded Garry Hoyt the magazine’s Industry Award for Leadership, noting his “insatiable desire to make sailing simpler,”
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Adding low friction rings to your boat’s rigging repertoire can be a lighter, more affordable alternative to line management.
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In love with wooden boats from the start, he found a unique Alden design that continues to fulfill his sailing dreams.
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