Until now, the reels that first appeared in the 1980s were so far ahead of their time that the intervening years brought only minimal changes

The DNG brand has been through a few changes over those years, but today this is in the hands of the Slippurinn shipyard, which is where the new DNG reels have been developed – a process that the yard’s Hilmar Guðmundsson explained was already in hand, but which was given added urgency during the Covid pandemic when gaps appeared in the usual lines of supply and some essential components could no longer be sourced.