Pirat Tuning Information

Update

The Seldén Epsilon section has been introduced to meet the demand for a more powerful rig for medium to heavy weight crews and/or a “straight rig” set-up. It combines light weight with high sideways stiffness, for maximum power, but has a responsive topmast and for/aft stiffness giving a smooth luff shape for the range of conditions. National and World champion Pirat sailors have chosen Seldén Epsilon section to give them the ultimate performance.

Seldén’s 2628 boom is ideal for the Pirat being both light and stiff, allowing absolute mainsheet and kicker control, available with or without outhaul. Pole is our stiff, light tapered 38mm section and can be supplied with or without pole lift eye.

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Why Seldén?

Choose a Seldén mast and you will find many performance enhancing features unique to our products, for example:

The Seldén tapering system ensures that our tapers are minimum size and weight. This gives low windage, centre of gravity and topmast weight. This maximises your speed by enabling the topmast to react quickly to gusts and waves giving better acceleration, a smoother ride upwind and, ultimately, more races won!
Automated welding keeps excess heat out of the taper for guaranteed consistency and performance. The weld produced is so perfect that there is no need to mechanically grind the weld (which can induce inconsistencies). This means that once we have finalised a winning design, you can be sure that your spar will perform identically to the champions.
All masts are heat treated in our purpose-designed oven. This artificial hardening ensures that you get maximum performance from the high performance aluminium alloy.
Our spars pass through a purpose-developed bead-peening machine. This gives the mast a perfect satin finish that dramatically improves fatigue properties, giving you a mast that will perform reliably for many years.
Top quality fittings such as our fully adjustable spreader bracket and highly durable cast gooseneck ensure speed and reliability on the racecourse.

Sections Available


Mast	Epsilon
Boom	2628

Mast Specification - Epsilon

Our standard specification includes three sheave heel plug, ball bearing spinnaker sheave and fully adjustable spreader angle and length. Mast comes complete with cleat for kevlar main halyard and drawlines to facilitate rapid attachment of halyards. Pole eye is supplied loose to allow pole launcher to be fitted as an option.

Boom Specification - 2628

Boom is supplied complete with inboard and outboard ends with sheaves, plus three boom slides. Outhaul is available as an option. Boom can be un-tapered (T4) or tapered (T5) to reduce weight at the end.

Spinnaker Pole Specification

Standard pole is super light 38mm tapered pole, supplied complete with wide based uphaul eye. 42mm is also available as an extra stiff option.

Rigging Specification

Includes kevlar main halyard, kevlar pole Uphaul with hook, low stretch dyform shrouds, and forestay, all supplied over length.