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Hall Spars & Rigging has the first-ever carbon rigging product with an ultra-low-drag airfoil shape. SCR/S – Seamless Carbon Rigging/Streamlined – is the next generation of the highly successful SCR product, and is designed specifically for projects looking for the maximum edge in speed. The accolades are already pouring in: Hall's airfoil-shaped, SCR/S received the Pittman Award for Innovation from SAIL magazine. SAIL editors and experts give the award annually to recognize innovation in the marine industry. For 2010, SCR/S is a winner in the "Racing Gear" category. "Searching for speed?" write the editors, "try SCR/S rigging."
"We'd been working on this idea well before we introduced SCR," says Eric Hall, president of Hall Spars & Rigging, "We raced with SCR/S in 2009 on Rampant, our chartered Rodger Martin 36. Combining this with fatigue and tensile testing in the lab, we confirmed the great potential of SCR/S.†(Rampant, bottom photo, has SCR/S shrouds that are green on the starboard side and red on port. Photo © riaerials.com)
Hall introduced SCR, the first reliable solid round carbon rigging product to hit the market, in 2008. It is the smallest, lowest windage composite rigging available. Thanks to a proprietary terminal attachment process for which there are international patents pending, SCR also boasts the most compact composite rigging end fittings available.
Hall SCR round rod has 15% less frontal area/windage than its nearest carbon rigging market competitor. Airfoil-shaped SCR/S just reduced that to 50% less windage. Standing rigging is the main source of rig windage, so this reduction will give any boat a quantifiable speed improvement.
“At Hall, we’re obsessed with windage reduction. With SCR/S we’ve taken windage reduction in rigging to its limit. It will be hard to beat,†says Hall.
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