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The Lake Norman Yacht Club in Mooresville, NC held its Mid Winter Keelboat Regatta March 20 - 21. In a 14 boat San Juan 21 one design fleet, Doyle Sailmakers supplied the sails for the first 6 places. Hans Lassen, current North American Champion, with crew Randy Eakes made off with 1st place by an eight point margin in a weather shortened 3 race series. An opening race 3rd place followed by 2 bullets sealed the deal.

To learn more about Doyle San Juan 21 sails, click here.

Doyle sails dominated the Viper 640 North Americans held in Miami, finishing 1-2-3. Lee Shuckerow, Brad Boston and Eric Vigrass won their second straight North American title. While 2nd place finisher Somers Kempe and 3rd place finisher Barry Parkin also used Doyle's latest sails. In the 19-boat fleet, Doyle sails won 8 of 9 races. New Doyle customer Charles Goodrich sailed to a 9th place finish to give Doyle 4 of the top 10!

Doyle has worked very hard over the past 15 months to build and design the easiest, fastest sails in the fleet. Brad Boston has been the leader in this regard and has closely worked with both our customers and our in house design team.

Next up for the Doyle Viper program is Charleston Race Week. This is a great event in April that will have a great attendance and more Doyle Viper Sails on the water there. Look for both Brad and Tac Boston to be there sailing there in the Viper.

For more information on Doyle Viper sails, click here or contact Brad Boston at 519-344-5236 or brad@doyleboston.com.

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by John Hearne

Congratulations to Geoff Boettcher and crew on SMB3.5 (Secret Men's Business 3.5) who have just won the Audi Victoria week.

The IRC GP fleet had 27 of the best boats and crews in Australia. Geoff has had a difficult couple of years of sailing so it is great to see him back on top.

At Hamilton Island Race Week a couple of years back the old SMB2 (RP47) was the unfortunate meat in the sandwich in a collision on the first start line of the regatta. Unfortunately, the boat was written off and unable to compete during the rest of the week.

Then while getting trucked back to the shed, the mast was broken. The decision was made to save some parts of the old boat and build a new hull and deck (SMB3 RP48). With the designs from Reichel Pugh office getting a little extreme, the new boat unfortunately performed a little under expectations.

So back to the shed again... With a new hull SMB 3.5 (RP51) was back in the water. With some recut sails from the old boat (budget was getting a bit tight) and some new Doyle Stratis sails, the RP guys look like they have got it right and the boat is obviously performing well.

Well done boys after a frustrating couple of years!

At the same regatta Surprise won Division 3 in both IRC & AMS with all Doyle sails, Stratis Main, J1, J2, J3 and 2 Spinnakers. Also Swordfish Trombone, who won AMS Division 2, had Doyle Stratis J1, J2 panel J3 and new masthead Spinnaker.

Geoff Boettcher and crew on SMB3.5 also just won the Lincoln Week regatta in South Australia.