Welcome to Southern Spars

Spars

Whether the goal is all-out speed and strength or a custom-built combination of performance and luxury, Southern Spars can produce a complete carbon mast, boom and rigging package to meet your requirements.

Why Southern

By choosing Southern Spars, you add our wealth of experience in design and manufacture to your project. Let us show you why award-winning superyachts and race-winning grand prix yachts choose us.

Rigging

Our rigging brand, Future Fibres, are the pioneers of multi-strand carbon rigging. Our composite cables are the most reliable on the planet, used for everything from yachts, to cars and bridges.

Rig Pro / Service

We care for your mast long after it leaves our factory. Rig Pro, our service division, provides service, repairs and maintenance to racing and cruising yachts around the world regardless of their mast brand. Check out our services and locations.

Projects Portfolio

Southern Spars builds rigs for most of the fastest race yachts and most beautiful superyachts on the planet. Check out what we have been up to lately and have a look at some of our most recent works.

Company

Come and meet our fantastic team and learn about the history of Southern Spars. Check out our facilities in New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the USA, and see how best to get in contact with us.

Southern Spars News

Outhaul Claw

About the Outhaul Claw – In 2011, when trying to attain maximum performance for the furling booms for Dubois 101m rigs, the designers at Southern Spars encountered a problem – it wasn’t possible to carry clew load of reefed sails…

Team Sanya arrive in Cape Town after retiring from leg 1 due to severe damage. Team Sanya are currently building a replacement bow section that will be fitted over the coming days. (Photo Credit must read: IAN ROMAN/Volvo Ocean Race)

Southern Spars and Volvo Ocean Race – Moving Ahead

The relationship between Southern Spars and the Volvo Ocean Race continues to grow, and we look forward to being the rig supplier for the next event. We recently had a visit from Nick Bice, head of the Boat Yard, the…

Southern Spars Congratulates VOR Competitors

Southern Spars wishes to congratulate all teams and sailors involved in the 2014-2015 VOR (Volvo Ocean Race), as the first race with a one-design rule, this edition will never be forgotten. With the yachts now identical, a premium was placed…

Taking rigging technology to new heights

This year Southern Spars has been riding the leading edge of technology at the grand prix level of yacht racing and applying the lessons learned to increasingly sophisticated production techniques for both racing and custom cruising yachts. These exciting developments…

Southern Spars Paul MacDonald relocates to London

Paul MacDonald, a director at Southern Spars, specialising in superyacht sales, is relocating from the companys Auckland office to London, UK. MacDonald is a senior member of the Southern Spars team and a veteran of the Whitbread Round the World…

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