KZ Racefurlers
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Our Team
    • World Class Facility
    • Testimonials
  • Product Overview
    • Product Overview
    • Product Features
    • Hanging Swivel Locks
    • Head Swivels >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Inshore Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Offshore Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Under Deck Range
    • Single Line Range
    • Xtreme Series Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Top Down Furling >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Accessories
    • Kustom
    • New Products
    • Product Videos
  • Service
  • Hall of Fame
  • News
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Our Team
    • World Class Facility
    • Testimonials
  • Product Overview
    • Product Overview
    • Product Features
    • Hanging Swivel Locks
    • Head Swivels >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Inshore Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Offshore Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Under Deck Range
    • Single Line Range
    • Xtreme Series Range >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Top Down Furling >
      • Range Overview
      • Technical Info
    • Accessories
    • Kustom
    • New Products
    • Product Videos
  • Service
  • Hall of Fame
  • News
  • Contact

KZ Racefurlers Welcomes UK Distributor

9/24/2017

1 Comment

 
KZ Racefurlers has teamed up with TK Marine, based in Hamble in the south of England.
Tom Kiff of TK Marine will look after all UK based sales and enquiries from September 2017.
We look forward to working with Tom to ensure our great product is easily accessable to all our UK clients.
Tom is active in the fast 40 class and we hope to continue our run of support of the class going forward, as well as breaking into new possible markets in the UK.
For any new furler or service enquiries please dont hesitate to contact Tom.
tom@tkmarine.co.uk 

Picture
1 Comment

James Gordon joins KZ Marine Group as KZ Racefurlers Brand Manager

4/6/2017

0 Comments

 
KZ Marine is pleased to announce the appointment of James Gordon to the team, with James coming on board as KZ Racefurlers Brand Manager, responsible for international sales and support for the KZ Racefurlers line.
Picture

James joins KZ Marine from a rigging background, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience from within the sailing industry that will hugely benefit all of KZ Marine's customers. Having previously worked for some of the world’s most prestigious sailing teams including the Camper Volvo Ocean Race Challenge, before four years in the TP52 Super Series circuit with Ran and then Provezza, James has also spent time working for Team New Zealand in the AC45 World Series events. Prior to joining KZ Marine James worked for the offshore Maxi Rambler 88.

James will be the point of contact for all sales and support for the KZ Racefurlers brand - please update your records accordingly.

JAMES GORDON
EMAIL: 
James@kzmarine.co.nz
MOBILE: +64 21804227
SKYPE: KZMarine
​
For more information on the KZ Racefurlers range click here or download the KZ Racefurlers Brochure.
0 Comments

Operational changes at KZ Marine Group - Keryn McMaster leaves KZ Racefurlers

4/11/2016

1 Comment

 
​Effective as of 14 April 2016 Keryn McMaster, KZ Racefurlers Brand Manager, is leaving her role at KZ Marine Group. Keryn will be taking a year out to travel with her family, undertaking an extended world trip, before returning to New Zealand in 2017. Keryn joined the company five years ago, following a highly successful professional racing career and time out to start her family. One of the world’s most respected female sailors her accolades include two Volvo Ocean Race campaigns.
Picture
​A restructure moving forward sees Rick Hackett, Managing Director of KZ Marine Group, take up the sales and service role, building on the current high standards of service, whilst Greg East will fully take over the design and production team. Rick has always worked closely alongside Keryn whilst being involved in design and production, so a seamless handover of operations is anticipated. 
Picture
Rick Hackett
Picture
Greg East
​A restructure moving forward sees Rick Hackett, Managing Director of KZ Marine Group, take up the sales and service role, building on the current high standards of service, whilst Greg East will fully take over the design and production team. Rick has always worked closely alongside Keryn whilst being involved in design and production, so a seamless handover of operations is anticipated. 
1 Comment

KZ Racefurlers announced as official supplier to Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018

3/10/2016

0 Comments

 
KZ Racefurlers is proud to have been confirmed as the official furler supplier to the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018. "This news builds on our longstanding relationship with the Race and we look forward to working with Race organisers and the teams again to ensure that they have the best furling gear available to take them around the world with confidence," says Keryn McMaster, KZ Racefurlers Brand Manager.
Picture
Photo by Matt Knighton on Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race

"KZ Marine have been part of the Volvo Ocean Race for many years now and with the transition to the Volvo Ocean 65 they were an obvious choice to be furler supplier," says Nick Bice, Head of The Boatyard for the Volvo OCean Race 2017-2018. "The Volvo Ocean 65 had a few pre requisites that were required to become a supplier, no more so than reliability and that is what we got. With over 350.000 miles accumulated between the fleet of 7 boats, the performance of the furling systems were second to none in both ease of use and reliability. The Boatyard and The Volvo Ocean Race look forward to continuing our relationship with KZ Marine as fuller supplier for the next edition of the race which will also be a very popular choice amongst the teams”
Picture
Nick Bice
0 Comments

KZ Racefurlers sponsors new FAST40+ Class and Race Circuit

1/16/2016

0 Comments

 
KZ Racefurlers is pleased to announce that we are officially supporting the new FAST40+ Class and FAST40+ Race Circuit, which officially launched on the 14th of January at the London Boat Show. Defined as light displacement race boats, with an IRC TCC of between 1.210 and 1.270, the FAST40+ boats will deliver close and exciting inshore racing.
 
“The FAST40+ Class is an ideal fit for KZ Racefurlers, with its emphasis on high performance and exciting racing,” says Keryn McMaster, Brand Manager of KZ Racefurlers. “We are proud to be supporting the Class right from it’s inaugural season and looking forward to seeing the Class continue to grow.”
Picture
Having been in the making since 2013 this new class has already seen great interest with 12 teams from six nations entered in the Race Circuit and more set to sign up. So far the fleet is made up of two Carkeek 40 MKIIs, three Ker 40+ boats, five GP42’s, one highly optimised Ker 40 and an HH42.
Picture
INVICTUS - one of the FAST40+ fleet
The Race Circuit will see competition based around five key Solent-based events including Cowes Week and the FAST40+ UK National Championship, as well as the RORC Easter Challenge, Warsash Spring Championships, JP Morgan Round the Island Race and Garmin Hamble Big Boat Championships, with Class Starts at each event. The points series will commence in May 2016 at the Vice Admiral’s Cup event.
Picture
42 South
As well as sponsoring the class, KZ Racefurlers is also sponsoring one of the fleet, GP42 42 South. Owned by London based Kiwi Mark Rijkse the yacht is currently undergoing a refit ahead of the upcoming racing season. “We are kitting the boat out in the best KZ Racefurler equipment and are looking forward to following 42 South’s progress throughout the upcoming season,” says McMaster.
0 Comments

KZ team at METS

11/14/2015

 
Rick and Keryn will be walking the show at METS this year. METS is an important event in the annual marine calendar and we are looking forward to meeting with old and new contacts alike.
Picture

KZ gear on Bella Mente

9/16/2015

1 Comment

 
We love this shot of Bella Mente at the Maxis in Sardinia in September 2015. The mighty Bella carries our furlers - a KZ6 Inshore Top Down furler on the prod with a new extension strop using KZ custom parts, and a KZ4 Inshore Top Down Furler on the genoa staysail.
Picture
1 Comment

Introducing our largest ever furlers: the KZ25 furler and KZ25 Xtreme Head Swivel, both with a SWL of 25T

8/6/2015

0 Comments

 
KZ Racefurlers has just completed work on our largest ever furlers: our new KZ25 furler and KZ25 Xtreme Head Swivel 25T furler. The first set, ordered by Mike Toppa of North Sails Florida, has just been completed for a new build Nautor's Swan yacht and is on its way to the yard in Finland.
Picture
Picture
The launch of these new models expands our range out to 25T safe working load (SWL) with a break load (BL) of 45T. The KZ25 Head Swivel is an 'Xtreme' version with all stainless steel replaced with titanium to save weight.  This unit weighs only 3540gm, compared to a standard version at 5420gm, giving a saving of almost 2kgs.
Picture
Pen for scale - look at the size of these things!
0 Comments

Service, service, service!

5/24/2015

6 Comments

 
To stay on the water longer, keep your equipment functioning the way it should do. We recommend every season that furlers and head swivels should be stripped and cleaned, spindles should be crack tested, pin holes checked for elongation and new bearings fitted with new grease.

At the recent Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Auckland, we saw a huge difference between well maintained furlers and those that had received little love on the long ocean stretches. Teams which had a good maintenance schedule ultimately spent less on their equipment, as the only thing needing to be done was a clean, regrease and reassemble. Poor maintenance resulted in not only needing new bearings but in some cases, new spindles and housings as well.
Picture
Pictured here, above and below, is a poorly serviced unit from one of the Volvo Ocean Race teams. When we collected it for servicing, the bearing was in pieces and ceased into the housing.  This furler had done 15,000 NM with no servicing.  In these conditions we would expect the furlers to be checked and re-greased every 5,000NM !
Picture
Picture
Talk to one of the team today about scheduling in a service for your KZ parts.
6 Comments

KZ Racefurlers for newly launched Botin 65

5/24/2015

0 Comments

 
KZ Racefurlers have just completed a full new set of racefurlers to be used on a new build Botin 65 ft racing yacht in Italy.

She'll be carrying KZ6 Offshore Furlers with titanium down fuckers for 2:1 tack lines, KZ6 integrators for Top Down Furling and KZ6 Head Swivels and KZ2 Inshore Furler set for the staysail.

These red head swivels are our new range of KZ8 with a SWL (Safe Working Load) of 8T. The red colour differentiates them so they don't get mixed up with the KZ6's - and was made especially to match a colour request by the boat.

We thoroughly enjoyed working on the project, and particular thanks go to talian rigging company SOLUZIONI TESSILI!
Picture
0 Comments
<<Previous

    KZ Racefurlers

    News from KZ Racefurlers - www.kzracefurlers.com

    Archives

    September 2017
    April 2017
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    Categories

    All
    Boat Shows
    Botin 65
    Comanche
    Company News
    Custom
    Extreme 40s
    FAST40+
    Hall Of Fame
    KZ25
    Momo Racing
    Moth Worlds
    New Launches
    New Products
    North Sails
    Peter Burling
    Quiet South
    Racefurlers
    Service
    Superyachts
    Sydney Hobart
    Sydney-Hobart
    Volvo Ocean Race
    WOXI

    RSS Feed

Picture
www.kzmarine.com
TERMS OF TRADE