ABOUT DESIGN

Essentially spar design is dictated by a yacht’s sail plan, chain plate 
width, righting moment, type of use (cruising or racing), and how 
the yacht will be sailed. It is through thorough research into these 
components, along with using state of the art design software, that 
Southern’s in-house design team can develop an optimum rig 
configuration. Simply put, this entails determining the ideal 
stiffness for the rig, the size of the mast section, the wall thickness 
of the section, the number of spreaders, spreader length, type of         
carbon used and rigging sizes.