Photo by Geri Conser

Leisure Furls™ News
A full-page ad is currently running in the September and October issues of "BLUE WATER SAILING." The ad offers a free Forespar hat to anyone stopping by the Forespar booth at the Newport or Annapolis shows, both providing factory personnel. You are encouraged to visit us in Tent D, booth 10-12 at Newport, and tent C, booth 69-72 at Annapolis. Each show will see a number of boats with Leisure Furls including Morris 46, Farr 50 pilothouse, Hylas 49, Bruckmann 48, the new Ted Hood designed Portsmouth 48 and the Taswell 58.

Ted Hood Sr. has chosen Forespar as the builder for both the mast and the Leisure Furl Boom for his personal boat, Robin Too. Ted’s Robin Too is a newly designed motorsailor, known as the Portsmouth motorsailor 48. Ted hopes to market this boat here in the U.S. This first hull was made in Poland and outfitted in Portsmouth, RI at Hinckley Yacht Services.

A special thanks go to the guys from Florida Rigging and Hydraulics for their help this past Spring in commissioning our first carbon fiber Leisure Furl. They have become one of South Florida’s leading Leisure Furl installers.

New Positions at Forespar
Bill Hanna, COO of Forespar Marine Products, announced that effective September 1, 2003 Art Bandy will be the OEM/Export Sales Manager and Bill Mosher will now be the Director of Sales and Marketing for the U.S. aftermarket. Because many of their areas overlap, Bill and Art will be working on many joint projects so it will be business as usual at Forespar. Art will continue to work out of the California plant while Bill remains in Milwaukee, WI.

Tech Tips
Marelon® Tech tips are now available on the Forespar web site! Go to www.forespar.com and see all the tips on how to use Marelon plumbing parts. Art Bandy, OEM Sales Manager for Forespar, has now created a mini book with tips from his many years of experience. Check it out, download the articles, use them on your website, just give us credit!

Effective September 1, the Nova Lift has been discontinued. The Nova Lift (#153310) was the smaller of these 2 unique lifting devices with the patented internal purchase system which allows for easy disassembling and storage. Nova Lift II (#153311) will now be known just as the Nova Lift. It has a lifting capacity of 220lbs with a distortion factor at 430lbs.

New catalog available: The 2004 catalog will be introduced at the Newport RI boat show. In addition, the catalog is now available in a PDF for customer use. Visit www.forespar.com to view the 2004 catalog.

Since coming out on the market, 5,000 new regatta T-shirts have been sold or given away in the past four months. Here, two young sailors, Ashley Klein and Shane Clark, show off their new shirts at the Optimist Regatta in Maneo, NC this past month. Promotional items are available to dealers on a direct basis by calling Bill Mosher at 414-220-9462 or customer service at 800-266-8820.

Factory contact numbers:
Ph: 949 858-8820 or 800-266-8820
Fax: 949-858-0505

Regular orders (catalog products)
8:00am - 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time: Linda Stanley
sales@forespar.com (Order desk)
lindas@forespar.com

Carbon fiber technical questions only:
Dennis Gallegos, dennisg@forespar.com
(For basic pole orders, contact the order desk)

Custom Spars & Leisure Furl sales:
Alan Massey, alanm@forespar.com
Ph: 909-880-1678, cell 909-534-5886
Peter Hobman at Forespar; peterh@forespar.com
(Leisure Furl Engineering)

Marelon and plumbing questions:
Randy Risvold, randyr@forespar.com
Art Bandy, artb@forespar.com

Marketing, sales and promotions:
Bill Mosher, billm@forespar.com
Ph: 414-220-9462
Cell: 414-688-9979