Barton Marine has been chosen to supply the recently revived Varianta 18 with a range of deck hardware fittings. After a 40-year absence, the popular 18 foot sailing yacht has been reintroduced by German yacht manufacturer Dehler. The 2010 version has been designed by Henrike Gänß and combines modern materials with innovative technology whilst maintaining the vision of original designer Willi Dehler...

We have just returned from another successful trip to one of Europe’s most important boat shows, Boot Dusseldorf where our products had some great exposure throughout the show. It was really good to speak to our exclusive German distributor, Robert Lindemann KG as well as a number of our German customers and get some valued feedback on how business is going in their market as well as hearing about how well the our own products are doing.

With final attendance figures at just 10% down, the show finished on an upbeat note with the busiest last weekend anyone can remember since the show opened at Excel in 2003. The weather reports made certain everyone stayed at home at the beginning of the week but the ‘die-hards’ still attended...

Sealine International, one of the UK’s most successful luxury power boat builders, has chosen Barton Marine to develop a specially designed traveller system, based on its Size 0 travellers, for incorporation in the full length convertible roof system on the stunning new SC35 sports cruiser.