What's New in 2023: Sailing Hardware and Rigging The biggest marine equipment trade show (METS) is about to take place in Amsterdam later this month and they have just announced the 2023 DAME Design Award nominations, for what's new and exciting in ... -French posts -German posts sailing equipment
From Clutches to Furling, What We Can All Take From The IMOCAs - A Conversation With Oliver Heer Ocean Racing The IMOCA class has long been at the forefront of technological development in deck gear, rigging and furling systems. Many of the performance products we promote at Upffront.com have originated in th... -French posts furling
Evolution of the IRC code zero - A conversation with North Sails In our previous blog we spoke with Ronan Grealish from North Sails on the topic of reaching sail configurations for doublehanded racing. In this blog we continue the conversation to take a closer look... code zero code zero furler -French posts -German posts
The Best Sailing Equipment from the METS DAME Awards 2022 Next week the Upffront team will be heading to Amsterdam for the biggest and most prestigious marine trade show in the world, METS. We are planning to share with you some of the latest innovations in ... -German posts sailing equipment
Just the two of us... Upffront.com sponsors UKDHOS for 2022 UKDHOS is coming back for its second year and Upffront.com is proud to be a sponsor! The 2022 season promises to be bigger and better than 2021, and we can't wait to see these competitive boats and sa...
Introducing Premium Ropes and Stirotex Fibre Premium Ropes is an Amsterdam based rope supplier, rigging workshop and resource centre for all things running rigging.The company was founded in 2011 by Jan-Willem Polman, a mechanical engineer with ... Premium Ropes ropes running rigging
An introduction to the all-new Upffront.com! This year is upffront.com’s 5th anniversary, and to celebrate we are pleased to announced the launch of an all-new website platform, which we have been working on for the last 6 months. This site and ...
Finding your way around upffront.com One of the most important features we knew we needed to have when creating our website was an in depth set of categories and filters to help you find the products you want, to the correct specificatio...
Introducing the LOOP® Products E-Furler Launched at Dusseldorf Boatshow 2017, the LOOP® Products E-Furler 1500 brings push-button technology, safety and comfort to sports boat gennaker furling. Designed to slot into most standard bowsprit d...
Karver’s Double Whammy at the DAME Awards image credits: Nauticexpo The Dame Awards are the leisure marine industry’s equivalent to the Oscars, awarded every year at the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS), held in Amsterdam each November. The...
Sailing Hardware and Rigging Innovation at METs 2019 Image credits: METs Trade It’s been a busy week at METS, the biggest, and undoubtedly best trade marine show in the world. Our mission here has been to catch up with our existing manufacturers and sup...
Join Us On The Foredeck! Image Credits: © Alizee Palomba © Ronstan With the launch of the all-new upffront.com website we are also pleased to present the Foredeck Club, exclusively for boat owners who are serious about their ...