Pavilion 2.1, Stand C61
The Equipment Showroom is presenting the year’s major new products with regard to deck fittings, electronics, clothing and equipment for comfort or safety. The big trend this year, textile fibres in the deck fittings have made a powerful foray into the pleasure boating market, after having won over the professional racers. Shackles, pulleys, various fasteners are abandoning stainless steel and titanium for more exotic high-tech materials like Spectra or Vectran, ever more reliable and lighter. A return to the times of the clippers, but with 21st-century technology! Another strong trend: multifunction displays. Even competition die-hards like Brooks & Gatehouse or the French NKE are getting into it. | The proliferation of information available, from AIS monitoring systems to Broadband radar, from cartography to graphic sounder, gives these displays an inevitable central role. The networking of all this data moreover has catapulted the iPad onto the knees of many professional skippers, and the accessories for turning Apple’s best seller into a seafarer’s best friend are multiplying. The Equipment Showroom also presents a great variety of consumer products, like the waterproof HD microcameras and folding bicycles, or products much more professional like the latest underwater carbon-based paints, rigging systems or the most sophisticated systems for managing electrical energy. It is the wide diversity of equipment on offer at Nautic that makes the Equipment Showroom a must, in gathering the main innovations and new products together in a single place. |
