We think that this will be the most technically advanced and high tech rig yet seen on a cruising catamaran. The sail plan offers significant advantages as follows:

1. Carbon wing mast. The mast section was chosen after carefully balancing up the needs between a stiff mast section, practical surface (sail) area and light weight. The amount of rigging is reduced to a minimum for less aerodynamic drag and by being able to rotate the mast we can significantly power up the rig for reaching and running as well as creating other set up variations. Most racing multi hulls have this style of rig and the TAG 60 is one of the first to fully employ this technology on a production cruising cat.
   
   
2. Furling/park ave boom. Big roach mainsails place high loads on the top battens, so much so that a normal furling boom/luff groove configuration cannot carry these loads so you are restricted to a small roach mainsail or slab reefing. The TAG 60 has the best of both worlds. The top section of the mainsail runs on high load batten cars while the lower part of the mainsail runs in a special groove track. This way we can handle the high loads while still having a furling mainsail that you can effortlessly reef from the cockpit without crew or having to go up to the mast area.
   
   
3. Large roach mainsail design. In recent years development in battens, batten cars and auto response mast designs has allowed designers to design very efficient mainsail profiles. Normally a large roach mainsail can be a handful to handle; however the TAG 60 system offers the best of both worlds with its unique furling boom design that integrates with a batten car system allowing us to carry the optimum mainsail design.
   
   
4. Furling headsails. While we do offer a gennaker as a sail option, most cruising cats won’t need it thanks to the effort we have put into our bowsprit design and being able to carry highly loaded Code zero sails. The TAG 60 has an all purpose heavy duty self tacking headsail for most sailing situations, however and as most cat sailors know, when the wind drops below 10 knots and there is some left over chop, many cats struggle in these conditions as they are not fully powered up by the short foot working headsail. The TAG 60 has a purpose designed upwind headsail that is furled in the bowsprit for such conditions. The long foot length really powers the cat up and pushes the lee bow hard so the cat remains pointing high and footing fast. Some cats have so called similar sails, but very few (if any) are able to fully hoist and sheet such a sail for effective upwind sailing.
   
   
5. PBO rigging. To help reduce weight aloft and help reduce pitching, the TAG 60 joins only a very few manufactures in offering PBO rigging as standard. In addition all halyards and tails are vectran to further reduce stretch and weight.