Rene Villefrance Sales Director at Nordic Mast and former World Champion of X-99 One Design Class “We’ve had such a fantastic racing season with X-37 “Hansen”, X-40 “Cejulix”, J/V 41 R “Visione 3”, First 40 “Westwind” and 6mR “Sophie II”.

The Performance Box boom launched earlier this year is aimed at boat sizes 37-50 feet. Based on this huge product success and our racing experience, we have built another racing boom for the boat sizes from 50 feet.”

Jeremy Palmer designer and project manager at Nordic Mast “We use the concept of the Performance Box Boom we launched in January and have optimised the shape slightly to keep the weight of the boom to a minimum. This new boom will be used on the Farr 55, which in addition will also have high modulus carbon fibre mast, spreaders in carbon, a custom fitted rig and where possible textile attachments, rather than metal ones, all of the above to minimize the weight.”

The Farr 55 will be launched with its new mast and fittings early 2010.