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BARTON FITTINGS FOR A LEGEND |
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BOOT DUSSELDORF REPORT |
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LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW REPORT |
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SEALINE INTERNATIONAL CHOOSES BARTON |
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BOATING ON A BUDGET RAISES £17,000 FOR RNLI BOATHOUSE APPPEAL |
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BARTON LENDS A HAND TO BOATING ON A BUDGET |
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NEW BARTON BLOCKS AT THE TULLETT PREBON LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW (8th-17th January 2010) |
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BARTON FITTINGS FOR A LEGEND
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. |
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The Varianta features a 7 metre jib and 14 metre mainsail and has been fitted out with Barton’s 20mm T Tracks and cars, mainsheet and kicking strap plus deck organisers, rope clutches, pad eyes, bullseye swivels and golf grip tiller extension. Incredible easy to sail the Varianta is also very comfortable with a versatile interior that can easily be converted from living area to sleeping quarters.
The unique design of the Varianta means that it is incredibly buoyant in the water making it unsinkable. Priced at just 10,000 euros, it is also extremely affordable. |
Varianta 18
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For more information on the Varianta 18, visit www.varianta.info or to see a video about the new design featuring Barton fittings visit:
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/varianta-reloaded-a-legend-returns/mtAdiY0vzaEdQqnSAtIEkQ |
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BOOT DUSSELDORF REPORT
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. |
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We had a fantastic presence at the show on the Robert Lindemann KG stand where three large Barton merchandising stands displayed a range of our equipment including the mainsheet traveller systems and T Track accessories. Also on display was a range of cleaning products from our sister company Swobbit Europe.
There was plenty of interest reported in the Barton and Swobbit brands thanks to some great exposure from retailers such as AWN who has a big spread of both brands in their new 2010 catalogue.
Around the show Barton products were highly visible on a number of craft such as the innovative Smartkat catamarans, which have been fitted with custom orange and dark grey Barton blocks and cleats. Smartkat reports good forward orders for this year with as many as 200 boat sales predicted, thanks to the expansion of their dealer and distributor network in Europe. TOPCAT boss Eric Brandsetter was pretty pleased with the show overall. Barton supplies the jib furling units for a number of catamarans within the Top Cat range whose Class association is active on the European lakes as well as number of international venues – Dubai World’s next!
Barton was also seen at the show on:
Varianta 18 – the revived sailing yacht from Dehler
Doering Boot – a Dutch dinghy manufacturer
Dorguloff – a French beach cat manufacturer
Tes 28 – a Polish built 28’ yacht
Tofinou – a French builder of very designer dayboats for the ‘well heeled’. They use our boomstrut with custom black rods to complement the carbon rig. |
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LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW REPORT
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 and there were plenty of Barton enquiries at our booth on the Navimo stand. |
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It was great to have visits from foreign based yacht owners looking to update their deck hardware and from UK based cruising and club racing sailors. Mailspeed, Jimmy Green and TCS reported strong sales of Barton equipment and seemed overall pretty pleased with sales.
Barton equipment featured on a number of new yachts including the entire Cornish Crabber range, the cute British Hunter H 20 Sport lf and Swallow Boats BayCruiser. |
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SEALINE INTERNATIONAL CHOOSES BARTON
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. |
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Sales manager Christian Brewer reports “Sealine has a reputation for using only the highest quality materials in the construction of their motor yachts, each item undergoing rigorous testing before fitting, so we are really pleased to be supplying this special Size 0 roof traveller system which we have been developing with Sealine for over two years.”
The design brief from Sealine was for a complete system ready to bolt on incorporating special made cars with injection moulded roof bar connectors, saving both time and man hours without compromising quality. All the special components used were designed in house by John Foord and production director Paul Botterill and manufactured and assembled in our Whitstable factory.
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Sealine SC35
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BOATING ON A BUDGET RAISES £17,000 FOR RNLI BOATHOUSE APPPEAL
In our last issue we reported about a special project we have been involved in to help the RNLI in Burnham-on-Crouch raise much needed funds for their Floating Boathouse Appeal. This month we are delighted to announce that the successful ‘Boating on a Budget’ campaign raised £17,000 at the recent Tullett Prebon London International Boat Show after a fully restored Hunter 19 sailing boat was raffled off during the show. |
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`Barangoola’ was fitted out with over £700 worth of Barton Marine products and fully renovated by the RNLI’s lifeboat volunteer crew in Burnham-on-Crouch. As well as raising funds for the RNLI, the project aimed to demonstrate how affordable boating can be for those just starting out.
The project leader, David Lewin of FLAG Paints Ltd and former President of the British Marine Federation, said, “‘The plan was to promote safe, enjoyable boating on a budget, primarily to the starter market as these are the people we need to attract to the sport and at the same time raise money for the boathouse appeal at Burnham on Crouch RNLI.’
The holders of the lucky winning raffle ticket were Ian and Sharon Grimster and their sons Edwin and Daniel from Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire who intend to keep the boat in Burnham. |
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BARTON LENDS A HAND TO BOATING ON A BUDGET
We are delighted to have lent our support to a new campaign which aims to raise much needed funds for a new boat house for the RNLI in Burnham-on-Crouch. The volunteer crew at the lifeboat station is restoring an abandoned sailboat which will be raffled off at the upcoming Tullet Prebon London International Boat Show, and Barton Marine has donated over £700 worth of products to help aid the team’s project. |
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Barton has supplied the restoration crew with a host of deck hardware including genoa cars, fiddle blocks, winches, T-track, traveller car and end fittings & caps. These products will go a long way to helping with the difficult task of restoring the Hunter 19 Barangoola to her former glory ready for the boat show in January.
The restoration project is part of the ‘Boating on a Budget’ initiative from the Marine Trades Association (MTA). The brainchild behind the project is MTA Committee Member David Lewin who said, “We are delighted that our campaign will be a prominent feature at the forthcoming London Boat Show. It has two simple aims, one to raise much needed funds for the RNLI’s boathouse appeal in Burnham-on-Crouch and the second is to demonstrate that anybody can go sailing, whatever their budget,” said David.
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The Hunter 19 Barangoola (Credit RNLI :
Burnham-on-Crouch)
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The Hunter 19 Barangoola will go on display at the British Marine Federation stand during the 2010 Tullet Prebon London International Boat Show and visitors will have the chance to win the boat by purchasing a £5 raffle ticket with all donations going to the Burnham-on-Crouch RNLI floating boat house appeal.
For further information about ‘Boating on a Budget’ and how to enter the raffle draw to win the fully restored Hunter 19 Barangoola, visit the attractions section on www.londonboatshow.com |
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NEW BARTON BLOCKS AT THE TULLETT PREBON LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW (8th-17th January 2010)
This year’s London Boat Show will see the public launch of our new Size ‘0’ Swivel Block range and our new Size ‘0’ Stand-up Blocks, which were both recently seen by the trade for the first time at the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam.
The compact range of Barton Swivel Blocks has been specifically designed for use on dinghies and dayboats and also for 5mm control line applications on larger yachts. The introduction of the new Size ‘0’ Swivel Blocks makes Barton one of only a few manufacturers in the world to offer a complete range of swivelling single, double and triple blocks, thanks to the skill and expertise of the Barton design team. |
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The new Size ‘0’ Triple Swivel block comes with the option of a becket and cam cleat that can be inverted to give both upward or downward cleating options according to application; these are particularly useful for mainsheet, vang tackles and for powerful dowhhauls.
Prices for the new Size ‘0’ Swivel Block range start at just £5.98 (RRP) for the plain bearing single swivel excluding shackle rising to only £47.15 (RRP) for the ball bearing triple swivel, including becket with cams.
Barton’s new compact Size ‘0’ Stand-Up Block is perfect for both dinghies and day boats and also as a turning block for spinnaker sheets and size ‘0’ mainsheet traveller control lines. The blocks have been extremely well received by both the trade and public due to their great value for money, exceptional strength for their small size and also their good looks. There are two versions of Size ‘0’ Stand-up Blocks available, a plain bearing version which has a recommended retail price of £7.50 ex. VAT and a ball bearing version which will retail for £9.50 ex. VAT
In addition to the new ranges of Size ‘0’ Swivvel and Stand-up Blocks, there will be a wide range of Barton products being displayed by our sole UK distributor Navimo, on stand NO48D. |
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