Sailing Magazine
To celebrate its 16 year long relationship with Clipper Round The World Yacht Race, Marlow Ropes has created a short film on the lengths it goes to, to produce the market-leading high performance Clipper Race ropes.
From the initial research and development to the final rigging of the 70-foot Clipper Race fleet, Marlow’s film is an illuminating insight into the entire process of creating the strong, light and durable ropes. Focussing on Marlow’s expertise, craftsmanship and manufacturing techniques developed over its 200+ year history, the short video goes behind the scenes of one of Britain’s greatest manufacturing exports.
Emma Donovan, Marketing Manager at Marlow said: “This film offers a fascinating insight into the art of high performance rope-making. The Clipper Race is an amazing adventure, testing the resilience of crew, boat and rigging. The ropes will travel 40,000 nautical miles per yacht, crossing 4 oceans. They will endure hard conditions and have to be the very best. We take this responsibility very seriously and are proud to be the official rope supplier.”
Each of the 12 Clipper racing yachts is kitted out with 1420 metres of rope (plus spares and accessories) the combined strength of all the ropes on one boat is 336 tonnes. A total of more than 15,620m of rope has been made for the entire Clipper Race fleet during over 1000 production hours.
Marlow Ropes is the world-leading manufacturer and authority on Leisure Marine ropes, based in Hailsham, East Sussex.
Marlow Ropes are represented in South Africa by Harken South Africa
See the Marlow Ropes film HERE
