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CATALOGUE_YACHTING
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CATALOGUE_YACHTING

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Cousin Trestec is a renowned French manufacturer specializing in high-performance ropes for the yachting market, with over 160 years of experience. Their success is built on a robust dealer network and collaborations with top racers and sailors.
Expertise & Innovation
Cousin Trestec manages all manufacturing processes, including in-house yarn production and impregnation techniques, ensuring superior quality. Their diverse product range caters to both standard and custom needs, focusing on technical requirements and quality.
Product Range Overview
  • Mooring & Anchoring: Products like Futuna, Polyamide Rope, and Polyester Rope are noted for their resistance, softness, and ease of handling.
  • Racing: High-performance ropes such as Dyneestar, Dynalight, and Aramstar are designed for stability, resistance, and ease of splicing.
  • Dinghies & Cruising: Ropes like Braidline and Rafale focus on comfort and durability for cruising.
  • Rigging Workshop: Offers textile solutions and accessories like Dyneema® Extra Cover and Soft Shackles, emphasizing versatility and reliability.
Technical Recommendations
The document provides detailed technical specifications for each rope type, including diameter, breaking strength, and weight, to help users select the appropriate rope for their needs.
Specifications
The document lists ropes such as Aramadillo and King Rope, with specifications including diameter, breaking strength, and weight per meter. It covers materials like Dyneema®, Technora®, and Polyester used in rope construction.
Applications
Ropes are categorized for marine applications such as halyards, sheets, standing rigging, and control lines, with specific uses like load handling and spinnaker sheets.
Construction Details
Describes rope construction, including single braid, double braid, and core-cover combinations, using materials like Dyneema® SK75, Technora®, and Polyester for enhanced performance.
Performance Characteristics
Emphasizes low extension, high breaking strength, UV resistance, and ease of splicing. Notes resistance to abrasion and stability under load.
Additional Features
Mentions pre-stretching, thermo-treatment, and coating for improved performance, and benefits of soft shackles and extra covers for protection against chafe and abrasion.
Rigging Workshop
Highlights services like splicing, fiber treatments, and training sessions, emphasizing expertise in maintaining breaking strength of spliced ropes.
Procedures and Use
Guidance on using products like sewing threads, splicing kits, and electric hot knives for cutting ropes and webbing neatly.
Standards and Recommendations
Recommends products like "Locky" ratchet straps for UV resistance and high breaking strength, and Constrictor® textile clutches for lightweight and efficient design.
Packaging and Availability
Products available in various packaging options, including mini reels and custom reels, with ready-to-use kits available.
Key Features and Benefits
Emphasizes benefits of advanced materials and designs, such as weight reduction and improved performance with textile solutions like Zylight cables.
Technical Recommendations
Provides a chart for required breaking strength based on sail area and displacement, with recommendations for mooring lines and working loads for different sailing types.
Disclaimer
Notes that product characteristics may change without notice and are not contractual, subject to errors or omissions.
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Cousin Trestec More than 160 years of experience 47 000 km of rope produced every year 60 000 plaits COUSIN TRESTEC, FRENCH ROPE MANUFACTURER LEADER ON THE YACHTING MARKET With over 160 years of experience including 5 decades in yacht rope manufacturing, Cousin Trestec is a must-know player in the marine trade. The key factors to this achievement are a unique know-how associated with a wide range of high performance products and a strong dealer network. Efficient partnerships with high level racers, top teams and famous sailors have built the Cousin Trestec brand and spread the word well beyond...

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RECOMMENDED ROPES MOORING & ANCHORING y POLY AM IDE ROPE PAGE 8 y POLYPROPYLENE TRADITIONAL ROPE PAGE 8 y POLYESTER ROPE PAGE 9 y BRAIDED LEAD LINE PAGE 9 i LEADED ANCHOR ROPE PAGE 9 y ARAMSTAR BLACK ENERGY DINGHIES & CRUISING RIGGING WORKSHOP: SPLICING & SAILMAKING DYNEEMA" EXTRA COVER POLYESTER EXTRA COVER HELICAL BRAID DYNEEMA STITCHED WEBBING LOOP SOFT SHACKLE MARINE SHOCK CORD WIPPING TWINE SAPHIR TWINE FOR NETTING SEWING THREAD NYLON NETTING FOR BULWARK PROTECTION THREAD"CVN WERCORD" "LOCKY" RATCHET STRAPS FLAT WEBBING ROPE COUNTER DISPLAY UNIT TEXTILE CLUTCHES TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS

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MAIN SAIL MAINSAIL, GENOA FORESTAY SETTINGS RECOMMENDED ROPES

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VERY SOFT AND EASY TO HANDLE. COVER RESITANT TO CHAFE AND WEAR. EASY TO COIL, COMPACT. COMFORTABLE HANDLING. EFFICIENT AND EASY Dynamic mooring line which does not necessarily require shock absorbers. 24 plait polyamide braided cover. High stretch polyamide braided core. SOFTNESS ••« »•••• PRICE SPLICE EXTENSION

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Ref. 3 strand “Hemp Like” EASY TO SPLICE, VERY SOFT, HIGH RESISTANCE. WITH A WELL BALANCED CONSTRUCTION IT DOES NOT KINK. HIGH STRETCH AND SHOCK ABSOBTION. DOES NOT FLOAT. ROT RESISTANT AND FLOATING. UV TREATED. VERY COMFORTABLE HANDLING. ABRASION RESISTANT. HEMP LIKE. USE Mooring line, spring line, anchor line. CONSTRUCTION 3 strand polyamide. CONSTRUCTION 3 strand multilament polypropylene. USE Classic boats rigging. Decoration, gym equipment. Available as a pre-spliced set including 30 m of rope with an eye spliced on a plastic thimble. Ø 8 mm, 10 mm, 12 mm and 14 mm. Polyamid Ropee Also available...

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EXCELLENT RESISTANCE TO POLLUTING AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. VERY GOOD RESISTANCE TO SEAWATER AND UV. LOW EXTENSION. ALWAYS REMAINS SOFT WHATEVER THE SEA CONDITIONS. USE Mooring, anchoring, gangways... Leaded anchor rope CONSTRUCTION Polyester cover, Ø 8 mm mm, leaded core. CONSTRUCTION 3 strand high tenacity polyester. FACILITATES MOORING HANDLING IN HARBOURS WITH CHAIN MOORING. SOFT, COMFORTABLE HANDLING. FULL LENGTH LEADED CHAIN CORE. EASY TO COIL AND STORE. THE DOUBLE BRAID AND THE PRE-SPICED LOOP MAKES IT THE MOST RELIABLE MOORING LINE ON THE MARKET. USE Anchoring with light weight anchors matching...

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VERY SOFT, GOOD STRETCH CAPACITY AND HIGH RESISTANCE. VERY GOOD SHOCK ABSORBTION. EASY TO SPLICE ON A CHAIN, DOES NOT TWIST, DOES NOT KINK. EASY HANDLING. SINGLE BRAID MOORING LINE, VERY RESISTANT, LONG LIFE TIME, VERY EASY TO HANDLE AND SPLICE. USE Mooring lines, anchor lines... USE High end mooring lines. Ideal as anchor line. Works well on windlasses. CONSTRUCTION 12 strand polyamide, polyurethane impregnation. CONSTRUCTION 8 strand polyamide. * Available in larger diameters

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VERY SOFT, FLOATING, VISIBLE ON THE WATER. VERY SOFT, COMPACT, EASY TO SPLICE. USE Mooring lines, anchor lines, lashing, protective extra cover. USE Tow line for small boats (dinghies), rescue line, life buoys. CONSTRUCTION 24 plait high tenacity polyester. CONSTRUCTION 16 plait multilament polypropylene.

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USE High-end halyards and sheets for every demanding sailor. CONSTRUCTION 24 plait polyester cover. Intermediate cover. Dyneema® core. LIGHT AND FREE RUNNING, THIS HALYARD SHOWS AN EXCELLENT RESISTANCE TO ABRASION WITH LOW EXTENSION. THE INTERMEDIATE COVER BETWEEN CORE AND COVER BRINGS EXCEPTIONNAL STABILITY AND LONGEVITY. The extreme robustness of the cover brings benets when looking for a quality rope with good longevity. Yvan Bourgnon, skipper

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HALYARD WITH A HIGH RESISTANCE CLOSE TO STEEL. VERY SOFT. VERY STABLE UNDER LOAD. EASY AND QUICK TO SPLICE. EXCELLENT RESISTANCE TO WEAR, FLEXING AND ABRASION. USE Heavy load handling, soft shackles, spinnaker sheets, halyards. Extra cover is easy to t and recommended on surfaces working on clutches, winches... CONSTRUCTION 12 plait Dyneema® SK75 or SK78 braid with PU coating for wear protection. Available in a Dyneema® SK90 version. A must have rope on modern boats… Tanguy de Lamotte, skipper

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PARENT PRODUCT OF OUR DYNALINE. WITHOUT INTERMEDIATE COVER, THE CORE IS PU COATED FOR EASY TAPERING. PERFECTLY STABLE, IT IS A HIGH PERFORMANCE HALYARD. HIGH RESISTANCE TO HEAT AND CHAFE THANKS TO THE USE OF THE REVOLUTIONNARY PBO FIBRE. USE Ultra performing race boat halyards and sheets. Easy tapering and splicing. USE Racing halyards and sheets. CONSTRUCTION Dynalight PU coated core with a 24 plait PBO cover. CONSTRUCTION Dynalight PU coated core with a 24 plait cover. Comfortable in hands, a rope like this is so nice to handle that it gives you the wish to constantly tune! Luce Molinier, skipper...

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LIGHTWEIGHT, THIS HYDROPHOBIC ROPE HELPS ACHIEVE MANOEUVRES WITH EASE. A VERY UNIQUE ROPE WITH EXCEPTIONNAL HANDLING. USE Mainsheet, jibs, spinnaker sheets for dinghies, sport catamarans, day-boats. USE Mainsheet, jibs, spinnaker sheets for dinghies, sport catamarans, day-boats. Perfectly suitable for light boats and catamarans. CONSTRUCTION 16 plait braided cover. Dyneema® and coloured Polyester blend core. CONSTRUCTION 16 plait multilament polypropylene cover. Dyneema® braided core. A simple line, easy to use everywhere. I appreciate very much its light weight. Yvan Bourgnon, skipper

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THE USE OF ARAMIDE FIBER IN THE CORE BRINGS RELIABILITY, STABILLITY AND HIGH PERFORMANCE TO THIS ROPE. AN ORIGINAL VARIATION OF THE ARAMSTAR WITH HIGH RESISTANCE TO UV AND EASY TAPERING. USE This is the rope for offshore races and records as well as blue ocean racing (mainly on boats requiring purchases on main halyards, such as on multihulls...). USE Racing halyards and sheets where easy tapering and splicing is required. CONSTRUCTION Polyester braided cover. PU coated black Technora® core. CONSTRUCTION 24 plait polyester braided cover. Technora® core. Aramst Black ar Energy

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