CST Composites will be closed from 24th December, 2004, and will reopen on 10th January, 2005. Wishing you all a happy holiday season.
The I14 UK Nationals were won by Andy Fitzgerald with a Bieker 5. First in the POW Cup was taken by Andy Partington in a Morrison 12. Both used CST rigs.
With a fantastic start to the year, RMW Marine has won the JJ Giltinan 18fter World Championships. With 4 wins and 2 second places, RMW reigned supreme in the series. Excellent crew work and a fantastic boat and rig combination ensured that RMW took an early strangle hold upon the championship. Beating 9 previous JJ winners, including Howie Hamlin, took an enormous effort and Rob and Peter Greenhalgh along with Dan Johnson did so convincingly.
CSTComposites skippered by Chris Dixon had mixed luck with collision in the Invitational Race, which set them back in the JJ. However they recovered towards the end of the regatta for a 15th.
I14 South Pacific and Australian Championships
After a competitive week of racing, Grant Geddes and Dan Wilsdon aboard Snatch has taken both titles by a 1 point margin from Lindsey Irwin and Andrew Perry on Irwin Sails. Snatch regained the lead by beating Irwin Sails by 4 boat lengths in the final race. Both boats, using CST rigs, battled fiercely for the lead for the entire week, putting on a good performance for spectators.
CST will close at midday on December 23, 2003 and will re-open for business on January 12, 2004. We wish you all a happy and safe holiday season.
CST is proud to announce that is it sponsoring on of the 18 footers that sails out of The Australian 18 Footers at Double Bay. Skippered by Chris Dixon, brother Greg is in the bow and Mark Loneragan is sheethand, the boys have had a successful start to the season with a 3rd in the Sprint Series. Stay tuned for more news.
Using a CST rig, RMW Marine has taken the worlds by storm winning 4 of the 6 races and not contesting the last race. 4 of the top 5 boats used CST rigs, dominating the waters off Wakayama, Japan. The variable wind strengths proved a great test for the sailors with some races being postponed due to no wind and in others the starters were considering postponement due to excessive breeze. See http://www.i14.jp/wakayama/ for more details.
CST has again proved supremecy in the I14’s with RMW Marine (Rob Greenhalgh and Dan Johnson) using a CST rig to cruise to victory in the PoW Cup. This race was full of thrills and spills with boats capsizing on a start line amid 62 others, causing a domino effect, T-bones and subsequent holings, and a few people being caught OCS. Greenhalgh sailed a conservative race and ended up with a giant lead that the other boats could not close down. Congratulations David and Dan.
Irwin Sails had a convincing win at the 2003 Nats in Perth. From a fleet of 38, in some hairy conditions, Lindsay Irwin and his crew Andrew Perry won four of the seven heats (the first two by 5 and 7 minutes respectively!). Irwin Sails had a CST14 rig, prodder and boom. See http://www.i14.org/ for all the details.
See the newly developed CST carbon fibre rig for the 505 dinghy.
CST has recently had a new addition to the factory. We have just purchased a new state of the art filament winding machine to give us our second production line. The purchase allows us to stay at the fore front of winding technology as well as increase our capacity and capability. This will assist us in extending our product range as well as allow us to pass on the benefits to our customers.
We are hoping to have the new production line installed and up and running by the start of January. Our new production line is aimed at smaller tubes enabling us to produce more of our stock tubes for general consumption. The new machine will mesh in nicely with our existing Quality Assurance System to ensure our existing supply of quality tube.
