USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR.1

www.rondarboats.com/us

It’s really Simple. The K6 is a GREAT boat. We are going to build some more GREAT fleets throughout the USA. American Yacht Club loves the boat, we love the boat and we’re pretty sure you will too. The price won’t hurt either!

$22,495 complete, includes a vinylester construction, K6 rigged with Harken Equipment, North Sails and trailer (also includes duty and shipping in a 6 boat container throughout the USA). We will put together buyers to make full containers. $3,000 deposit confirms your order.

Call Dan or Drew today 855-766-3271

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR.1

www.rondarboats.com/us

We’re happy to have some great California Weather in store for this weekends Demo day. Come sail the Viper and K6. We are preparing an awesome fleet building program for the K6 throughout the USA. More on that Later!

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR.1

www.rondarboats.com/us

http://www.onedesign.com/One%20Design%20NA/tabid/23032/Default.aspx?news_id=3156

Great Writeup of the SD NOODS experience by Garth Reynolds, designer at North One-Design (Rondar’s New OEM Sailmaker for the Viper and K6). Windy Regatta with a couple of great guys! Huge fun!

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR.1

www.rondarboats.com/us

http://ussailing.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-makes-classes-strong.html?utm_source=e-USSAILING&utm_campaign=405cfbd94f-e-USSailing+3%2F7%2F2012+Google+Analytics+report&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=405cfbd94f&mc_eid=718ed58faf

What Makes Classes Strong?

By Paul Young

Paul Young, President of Rondar UK, gave a presentation entitled “What Makes Classes Strong” at US Sailing’s One-Design Symposium at Bay Head Yacht Club last fall. Rondar has earned a reputation as a pre-eminent builder of fast one-design race boats. Rondar hulls have won world championships in the Contender, the 420, the Fireball, the Enterprise and most notably, the highly competitive 505 class. Eight out of ten 505 World Championships have been won in a Rondar hull. Their reputation for quality and technical expertise is second to none. Rondar is based near Devizes in the county of Wiltshire, UK and produce between 200 and 250 boats a year… Here are 15 tips from Young on how to strengthen your class:

1. Confidence – Have self belief, if you don’t believe in your own class, who else will?

2. Management - Have clear goals and objectives, incorporated into a rolling 5 year plan.

3. Communication - Frequent and regular communication with targeted methods, including newsletter, email, websites, social media, telephone calls.

4. Know your customers – Ensure that you really understand what your members want and expect from their class. If you don’t know, then ask them.

5. Delegate - This gets the work done, involves members, and builds a sense of shared ownership in the class. Many classes have 2 or 3 overworked people doing all the work.

6. Focus – Volunteer organizations cannot do everything all at once, so prioritize and achieve 5 things in succession, rather than start 15 things simultaneously and finish none.

7. Politics – Don’t take it too seriously, politics are the quickest way to undo all the good work and kill a class. De-fuse issues as they arise, and keep it balanced and on track.

8. Promotion – Sell your class to others, many classes only reach out to the existing membership within their class.

9. Progression – Allow sensible progression, one design doesn’t always mean identical, it should mean that boats sailed to an equal standard have an equal chance of winning.

10. Distraction – Lots of classes wind up spending 90% of their energy and resource being distracted by the most vocal minorities. Don’t let the tail wag the dog.

11. Make life easy – Invest in online payments, paypal, credit card payments, for subs, entry fees etc. More people will do it if it is easy to sign up, pay and use their boat.

12. Charge enough – Providing good class structure costs money, just make sure that the class has adequate funding streams and charges enough to provide good service.

13. Builders – Work with the builders in a partnership to get the best possible boats at prices that keep the class building new boats and growing. Can also be an income stream.

14. Modernize – Classes are often bound by Constitutions and rules that are based upon their heyday, with unwieldy requirements and needless complication.

15. Enjoyment - If people are enjoying their boat they will sail it more often. Ensure that the back half of the fleet is enjoying their sailing. The front will look after itself.

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR.1

www.rondarboats.com/us

Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, Long Beach, California,  host of the 2014 Viper North American’s is the home of the Ullman Sails Viper tuning Clinic and Viper/K6 Demo day. 

Learn tuning tricks from Ullman Sails Viper Expert, Keith Magnussen and Rondar Raceboats SoCal Rep, Tim Carter. The first half of the day is tuning, the second half is taking out interested sailors for practice and test sails. This is a real fleet building opportunity at ABYC, host of the 2014 Viper North American’s. We will be hosting burgers and beers at the post practice/demo chalktalk.

RSVP Required. Please call and let me know you’re coming and we’ll keep a spot open for you.
Drew Harper 855-766-3271 ext. 5

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR1

www.rondarboats.com/us

Richmond YC in Point Richmond, California,  one of the more outgoing clubs in the Bay Area, hosts their annual Sail a Small Boat Day this coming Saturday, 10:30 – 15:30. Pt Richmond, CA

If you’ve ever wanted to try out a Viper, a K6 or a long list of other small boats, come on down and enjoy the clubs endless hospitality. Free lunch too!

Please call and let me know you’re coming and we’ll keep a spot open for you.  Drew Harper 855-766-3271 ext. 5

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR1

www.rondarboats.com/us

The new 420 Deck is a thing of beauty and functionality

We’ve just built the best 420 in the world, well, at least in our opinion. Seriously, this is a thing of beauty.

We’re loaning out a few to some universities to sail and test. These boats will sell themselves. Super strong cored construction, but still very light and stiff.

What do we offer the collegiate sailing programs? We can build them the boat THEY want. We work closely with their specifications and give them a product that lasts longer, is built better and will sell for more at the end of their use. We help them maintain their existing fleet and install new boats to keep things running smoothly.

Call Paul Zimmerman at 855-766-4321 ex2 for more information on this and all our our other fine collegiate programs.

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR1

www.rondarboats.com/us

        

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR1

www.rondarboats.com/us

Here’s a peek at our new double trailer kit. It converts two Rondar Viper Trailers to one double using the existing axles. Breaks down for easy storage. Now you can buddy up for those far away regattas! This one is hold a Viper and a K6.

Cost is TBD so call the office today. 855-RONDAR-1

This is carrying a K6 and a Viper but hauls two (even 3) Vipers easily.

Uses The Existing Axles off two Rondar Trailers

Ultra-heavy duty construction that easily clamps into place!

USA Subsidiary

Rondar Raceboats USA

 147 Summit St
Building 3C, Unit 2
Peabody, MA 01960

 Phone: 855.RONDAR1

www.rondarboats.com/us

We’ve built two of the these hull molds in our UK plant. One for the Peabody, MA plant and the other to stay in Wiltshire, UK. Once we’ve assembled the final deck molds and various parts assemblies, we will ship them westward to Peabody. A bit of training, some protoyping and quality assurance work to go then we’ll scale up full production of the first USA Viper, Spring of 2012.

Both the USA and UK plants will build identical Vipers using identical hull molds and a resin infused production process enabling the cost effective production of perfect hulls at a highly consistent weight.  A redesigned non-skid pattern provides grip where your feet need it and low friction where you hike.

The Best Viper tool ever Built.

Detail View of the New Infusion Viper Tool