Innovation
We innovate on the water.
Doyle Sails has spent four decades asking why a sail has to be built the way it has always been built. The answers are the technologies our customers race and cruise on today, and they came from sailors who had to sail their own answer.
Where it began
STRATIS changed how a sail is made.
Before STRATIS, a sail was cloth cut into panels and stitched back together. Its strength ran along the seams, not along the load, so it began stretching away from its designed shape the first time it was properly loaded up.
We took the panels out. Continuous load bearing filaments are laid unbroken along the paths your rig actually loads, and the sail is built in one piece. It holds its shape at sizes no panelled sail could manage.
Everything we have developed since sits on that principle. Put the fibre where the load goes, and nowhere it does not.
Learn moreDoyle CFD
We model the boat before we build the sail.
Doyle CFD was founded in 2011 to develop the computational tools and techniques that came out of Stanford University, NASA and Doyle Sails. High resolution simulation gives our designers the data a wind tunnel and a tow tank would, and a good deal more besides.
Fluid dynamics tells us how air and water move around your boat and where the pressure sits. Finite element analysis tells us how the sails, battens, mast and rigging respond to it. Run the two together and we can predict the flying shape itself, then read the strain map and lay extra fibre exactly where the sail asks for it.
We were early to this kind of study, and it now shapes every Superyacht sail we build, including work on two of the largest sailing yachts in the world.
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What came of it
On the water right now.
Each one began as a problem found on the water by our own crews, and none of them left the racecourse until it had earned it.
What it is for
Innovation you can actually buy.
None of this is research for its own sake. Every technology on this page is in the product range now, specified on real boats, from a club racer under thirty feet to a Superyacht crossing an ocean.
See the technologiesSail the answer.
Tell us about your yacht and the season ahead. We will specify the technology around it, and you will speak to the people who developed it.
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