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Congratulations to Bill Lynn and the crew of the J/105 Shooting Star for winning the J/105 class in the 2011 Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD Regatta and being named the Overall Winner of the Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD Regatta, winning the event’s top prize, a trip to the British Virgin Islands. The Overall winners from each of the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regattas will complete in the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Championship Regatta in the British Virgin Islands in November, courtesy of Sunsail.

When Laurie Willard realized he was unable to skipper his J/105 Shooting Star for the Marblehead NOOD, he asked Bill Lynn to skipper. With Bill Lynn at the helm, the Shooting Star crew included Ben Willard (Laurie’s son), Matt Contorchick and his wife, Catherine Sullivan, Chris Hufstader, and Hannah Lynn (Bill’s daughter). After 6 races with one throw out, Shooting Star edged out Got Qi? by one
point to win the class and go on to be named the Overall Winner of the 2011 Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD. Shooting Star was powered by all Doyle sails.

A total of ten classes and 169 entrants competed in the Marblehead NOOD held July 28-31, 2011 by the Corinthian Yacht Club. Doyle customers dominated the regatta, winning eight classes. George Spiecker’s Airtha won the Alerion 28 class. Wade Edwards’ Riva won the Etchells class, with Ethan Doyle finishing 3rd. In the IOD fleet, Doyle customer Bruce Dyson’s Gypsy dominated the fleet to win by an 11-point margin. Ken Deyett’s Jeroboam won the J/30 class. Bill Lynn won the J/105 class. Doyle powered customers swept the Rhodes 19 fleet, with Pete Kaznoski and Evan Cooke’s Sundance, Chris Small’s Swing Room and Kim Pandapas’ Mo Hotta Mo Betta finishing 1-2-3. Doyle’s Tomas Hornos won the Sonar fleet, while Bart Snow’s NOLO won the Town Class.

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The final weekend of Larchmont Race Week may have been a bust for most with no wind on Sunday and one bizarre race on Saturday, but it worked out just fine for Paul Beaudin’s J/105 Team loulou. Beaudin sailed his throw out in Saturday’s race, when a 180 degree windshift turned the fleet topsy turvy. So loulou’s sixth place finish got bracketed, and Beaudin scored four bullets from the prior weekend. The tally not only gave him first in the J/105 class, but won the vote for Best Overall Performance at the 113th Larchmont Race Week.

Loulou uses a complete set of Doyle J/105 class racing sails. The Spinnaker, which has been very fast in running conditions, was even faster as a VMG. In the light conditions loulou was just faster, with speed to walk away from the fleet for big finishes. The Doyle J/105 spinnaker is proving to be perfect as the ‘do it all’ sail.

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Paul Beaudin and crew on Loulou won the J/105 class and "Best Performance in a One-Design" at the 2011 New Jersey Red Grant Regatta

Loulou using the latest Doyle J/105 PB (Premium Boatspeed) sails dominated the 8-boat J/105 class at the 2011 New Jersey Red Grant Regatta winning 6 of the 7 races, only taking a second by a nose in one race. Loulou’s performance was good enough for the over all title “Best Performance in a One-Design.”

The new Doyle PB Stratis Class Jib is extremely effective throughout the entire wind range and Loulou had dominating speed in every race. Trimmers on the boat commented “The new Doyle jib could be a game changer, this is the fastest sail to date. The sail looked beautiful right out of the bag and is very easy to trim”. Downwind the Doyle PB Class 89 Spinnaker was lower and faster in all conditions. New spectra rings and advance patching have reduced the over weight of the sail by 20%.

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Powered by 2010 Doyle sails, Fred deNapoli and crew took class honors in the 2010 Hanse Yachts PHRF New England Championship held in Marblehead, MA. Sailed in light to moderate winds, Allegro Semplicita bested the competitive 21 boat J/105 fleet over the course of six races in three days.

The Allegro Semplicita team included tactician Nick Burke, bowperson Kim Barrows, mid-bowman Steve Gleason, Anthony Warren at the mast, and Patrick Andersen trimming the jib.

Allegro Semplicita used a full inventory of new 2010 Doyle sails, including a cross cut main, a class jib and a full radial spinnaker. Looking back on this summer’s successes, deNapoli offers, “A big thanks to Doyle Sailmakers for making some pretty slippery sails.” Over the course of this season, deNapoli finished second in the Marblehead NOOD and won the Boston Yacht Club’s Summer Series as well.

Utilizing innovative 3D modeling and rigorous testing, the Doyle Design Team is actively developing fast, smooth and durable J/105 sails for all conditions. To learn more about Doyle J/105 sails call 800-94-DOYLE or click here.

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J/105 SEALARK WINS OVERALL VERVE CUP WITH 2010 DOYLE SAILS

Clark Pellett, owner of Sealark, not only won 1st place in the J/105 fleet at the Verve Cup Offshore Regatta, but he also won the prestigious Overall Verve Cup Trophy. The Overall Verve Cup trophy is awarded to the winner of the most competitive fleet in the Verve Cup Offshore Regatta, which was held at Chicago Yacht Club August 20-22, 2010. The Sealark team, including bowman Shane Montgomery, tactician Russ Radke, mid bowman John Schussler and headsail trimmer Ned Sher, was powered by 2010 Doyle sails and won the J/105 class with 33 points.

Pellett recognized the strong competition in the fleet, commenting “As we say in the J/105 fleet, there’s always someone waiting to steal your lunch. And they will.” Pellett from Chicago, commended the organizers of the regatta, saying “This is a great regatta, the Chicago Yacht Club and Race committee does such an outstanding job. We couldn’t be happier.”

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PROVIDENCE WINS 8-MILE BOUY TROPHY

The 8-Mile Buoy Trophy is the overall 2010 Verve Cup Offshore, which was awarded to Greg Miarecki’s Providence for winning Saturday’s Distance Race.
Providence carries a full inventory of Doyle Stratis upwind sails and Full Radial downwind sails.

In addition to winning both of the Overall Awards for Verve Cup, Doyle sails were also at the front of the other classes. In the Farr-40 Class, Helmut Jahn’s Flash Gordon 4 took home 1st place. Flash had a new Doyle 1.5S for the regatta that they are extremely happy with, but they only used it sparingly as they are saving it for the upcoming Farr-40 North American Championships. Flash was followed by Phil Dowd’s Inferno in 2nd and Brian and Scott Jackman’s Pendragon in 3rd. Both Inferno and Pendragon used complete Doyle inventories.

In the J/109 Class, Peter Priede’s Full Tilt placed 3rd.

In the T-10 Class, Simon Beemstabor’s Silver Surfer tied for 4th only 3 points out of 2nd.

In the GL-70 Class Lance Smothermans Details finished 2nd.

The Beneteau 36.7 class was again dominated by Doyle sails, with Doyle sails used by 7 of the top 10 boats. Peter Wrights Maggie Mae took home 1st making it a clean sweep winning every one of the Buoy regattas in the 2010 Lake Michigan Championships. Charlie Wurtzbach and Mike Bird’s FOG placed 3rd, Sue Hogan and John Heaton’s As You Wish finished 4th, Steve Pelke’s Stingray came in 5th, and Mark Norris’s Split Decision was 6th.

Utilizing innovative 3D modeling and rigorous testing, the Doyle Design Team is actively developing fast, smooth and durable One Design sails for all conditions. To learn more about Doyle’s One Design sails call 800-94-DOYLE or visit doylesails.com/onedesign.

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Over 170 boats and over 1,000 sailors competed in the four-day-long Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD Regatta hosted by Boston Yacht Club July 22-25, 2010. After taking first place in the Sonar class, Russ Silvestri of San Francisco, California was named the overall winner of the Sperry Top-Sider Marblehead NOOD Regatta, winning the event’s top prize, a trip to the British Virgin Islands. The Overall winners from each of the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regattas will complete in the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Championship Regatta in the British Virgin Islands in November aboard Sunsail 39s.

There were 27-boat Sonar Class, Silvestri and crew John Collins, Julie Papanek, and Holt Conbon on Black Tulip entered the final day of racing in 5th place, but a 1st place finish in the final race ended the series in a three-way tie with Larry Ehrhardt and Sam Altreuter, defending Marblehead NOOD Sonar Class Champion and 2009 Marblehead NOOD Overall Winner. With a 1st in the final race, the tiebreaker went to Silvestri. Ehrhardt and Altreuter rounded out the top three, respectively. Silvestri is new to the Sonar class, this being only his second regatta. Russ was powered by all new 2010 Doyle main and jib designs.

In the J/105 class, congratulations to Doyle customers Fred Denapoli for his 2nd place finish, Kevin Colcord’s 3rd place finish, and Jon Wales’ 5th.

Doyle customers took the top 10 slots in the Rhodes 19 class. Charlie Pendleton and Jim Raisides defended their NOOD title, while Kim and Christina Pandapas took 2nd, and Chris Small finished 3rd. The 2010 Rhodes 19 Class National Championships takes place on August 18, 19 and 20 in Marblehead at the Corinthian Yacht Club.

In the Star Class, full Doyle inventories powered the Jud Smith and Tomas Hornos, finishing 1,2 respectively. A Doyle jib powered 3rd place finisher Ken Woods.

In the J-30 fleet, congratulations to Doyle customer Luke Buxton, competing with a Doyle Genoa. 2nd place finisher Ken Deyett used a full inventory of Doyle sails. The 2010 J/30 North Americans will be held August 6th, 7th and 8th in Marblehead, hosted by the Boston Yacht Club.

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At the 2009 85th sailing of the Port Huron to Mackinac Race, Doyle powered boats won 12 classes (Beneteau 36.7, J/120, NA 40, ORR A, IRC B, IRC C, IRC E, IRC F, Cruising A, B, C and D) and won 54% of the flags awarded. For unsurpassed shape retention and performance, contact your local Doyle loft!

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