SOFT SHACKLE TESTING

What better way to test the strength of a SOFT SHACKLE then by placing it on the clew of an Americas Cup yacht Genoa!! Check out the picture below, you will see a 4mm Dynex SOFT SHACKLE in action in 20-25 Kt's TWS (True Wind Speed).
For more information or to place your order for SOFT SHACKLES on your yacht,
Email: matt@mpyachting.com.au

SOFT SHACKLES

SOFT SHACKLES new baby brother the CAPTIVE SHACKLE.
This latest feature added to the soft shackle is designed to prevent it from going overboard. The shackle when undone remains captive on the sheet or halyard it is attached to. The shackle is easily installed and ideal for that clumsy crewman that is always dropping things!





Introducing the SOFT SHACKLE by MPYachting.
Drop Matt an email: matt@mpyachting.com.au or Phone +61 422 543 754 for a free quote.
Prices start from $16.50 each.




Talk to Matt from MPYachting regarding how best to improve the weight and safety of all your yacht's attachment points.
Gone are the days of anticipating when your stainless shackles will break, bend or damage your boat & sails.
Replace your Brass piston hanks with SOFT SHACKLES made from DYNEX that will never corrode.




Soft Shackles can be custom made to any size required, with safe working loads from 800kg up to 15 Tonnes.



Soft shackle used to hold mainsheet to Padeye on America's Cup yacht. Safe workload in excess of 7 tonnes.

Matt Pearce putting in a safety line while reefing in the 2010 Sydney to hobart aboard Brindabella.
Photo's courtesy of saltwaterimages

Podium finish for MPYachting!

After a week of intense competition amongst the top IRC racing yachts of Australia, Matt Pearce, on Wild Oats X finished 3rd overall at Hamilton Island Race Week 2010. Matt will now help to deliver the yacht back to Sydney this week.



Photos via here

Top Speed 27.3 Knot's Sydney-Brisbane Delivery 2009

MPYachting's Matt Pearce at the wheel of SKANDIA WILD THING with fellow crew member and bow girl Sophie Ciszek. A favourite shot from a delivery last year from Sydney to Brisbane. Matt delayed the delivery by 3 days so he could leave on the front of a 20-30 knot southerly. SKANDIA was sailed at a blistering pace to Brisbane in 33 hours 35 minutes from the CYCA in Sydney to Rivergate Marina on the Brisbane river.

NEW Boom & Tent Cover for "Brindabella"

MPYachting is extremely happy to be associated with a part of Australian maritime history by manufacturing a new boom tent and mainsail cover for Brindabella's new owner Jim.

The rigging side of MPYachting is working at present on updating all of the running rigging & halyards on board the yacht and will have her rigged & ready to be sailed hard this summer.

Matt Pearce is looking forward to the upcoming sailing season at the CYCA where he will be a regular on board the yacht, sailing as a crew boss and helmsman with Brindabella's racing team.

Special thanks goes out to Boat Captain Justin (Bluey) Sutherland for all his help in allowing MPYachting to assist in bringing Brindabella back to her former glorious racing days of the past.

Gold Coast Race 2010

Matt Pearce joined the Wild Oats X Yachting Team for the recent Sydney Gold Coast Yacht race. The team finished a very respectable second place behind her bigger sister, Wild Oats XI for line honours and second overall in IRC. Matt will also be staying with the team for the upcoming Hamilton Island Race week this August.

1st place in Farr-100 Class at the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, Sardinia june 2010

Matt Pearce bowman on the Farr-100 Superyacht "I-SEA". Winner of the Southernwind Farr-100 Class(Nine Farr-100's), and 3rd overall in the Loro Piana Superyacht regatta,Sardinia June 2010.

On board SKANDIA WILD THING

Fixing the hydraulics system on the 100 footer Skandia Wild Thing, during a delivery from Brisbane to Sydney.

32.5 knots on the Volvo-60 DHL, Syd to Hob 2007