Heavy Wire

[Bill]

Global BSI, which is a Danish firm that specializes in the engineering and
manufacture of premium rod rigging systems for large sailing vessels, has
announced that it has ordered the world's largest cold-heading press for
Superyacht rigging applications. The new press, scheduled to be ready by
November, is capable of heading larger than dash eleven hundred (-1100) rod.

For those that don't know what that means, which includes the Curmudgeon,
dash eleven hundred rod exceeds three inches in diameter and has a breaking
load of 1,100,000 pounds. While they don't say how heavy it is, you got to
think it is pretty heavy. Their website lists that dash 540 (-540), which is
two inches in diameter, weighs 10.73 pounds per foot. This is all pretty big
stuff, and opens are eyes a bit more to the world of superyachting.