Chicago Yacht Rigging is moving to a new location over the next couple weeks, and (phew) developing a new website.
The new CYR space is really exciting! I’ll be moving in with North Sails Chicago. The local North team has always been great to CYR as we share lots of the same clients, and starting in January 2012 CYR and North will be in the same place. This is good all around, as customers can get their rigging at the same place as new sails and service.
Our old Pilsen location was great, and got CYR going in the early years. I’m certainly going to miss the 115′ measuring space and local taco establishments, but in every other way the new shop is going to be superior (only about 30′/115′ had standing headroom…) One of the big improvements for CYR and it’s clients is the ease of visiting, as North sails has a great location with good parking. In addition we’ll have a dedicated corner of the loft for swaging (this is great for making multiple long assemblies at once) as well as a fancy new splicing bench, prestretcher and load testing rack in our smaller dedicated space. All this means that CYR can make products with greater speed, efficiency and precision, and the customers have a nicer place to pick up gear and meet with me.
Since I do my best work under pressure, I’m developing a new website for CYR at the same time (it’s like practice for Mac week, especially since it’s Holiday season as well, and we’re making an always surprising amount of Christmas gift rigging.) The new site has a new format which is going to be more blog friendly. I’m comfortable with this format, with our Shields blog, and the good news here is that new products, tricks and how-to’s can be shared quickly and easily. Additionally, this will make it easier to keep up to date pricing and availability online. The first posts will be detailing our new shop location, as well getting updated one design pages up for the T10′s, J105′s, Farr 40′s, 36.7′s and-naturally-Shields.
Stay tuned, and thanks for your business and helping CYR grow!
Kristian Martincic
Chicago Yacht Rigging Inc
1665 N Elston Ave
Chicago IL 60642
773 895 4324
kristian@chicagoyachtrigging.com