Danielle Burridge, Author at Doyle Sails

Two days of close racing at the Doyle Sails Northland Cherub Championships

Last weekend the Kerikeri Cruising Club hosted the Cherub Northland Champs which saw 7 Cherubs line up for two days of mixed racing. With America’s Cup winners, Whitbread sailors and New Zealand Sailors of the Year winners as the race committee, the racing was well planned and included windward-leewards, triangle and coastal courses plus the […]

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Stay ahead of the fleet with new generation Doyle Moth sails.

Grand Prix, One Design, Technology

May 5th, 2021 Doyle Sails are the light at the end of the tunnel for the international Moth class. An international class that is home to some of the best foiling sailors in the world – these sailors know that when yachts are the same, sails are an opportunity to gain a performance advantage. Further

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On board sailing yacht CeFeA with owner Marc Giorgetti

Superyacht

27 JANUARY 2021 BY CECILE GAUERT FOR BOAT INTERNATIONAL His father founded the family construction business but also passed on a love of boats and water. Cecile Gauert meets the Luxembourger-Italian now building his very own super-stylish sailing yachts Marc “Gio” Giorgetti grew up in landlocked Luxembourg, but the Mediterranean is never far from his mind. For

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GREAT BRITAIN CROWNED BERMUDA SAIL GRAND PRIX CHAMPION ON DRAMATIC FINAL DAY

Grand Prix, SailGP

Ben Ainslie’s team won just a single fleet race across the two-day event, but put in the perfect performance when it mattered in the Final to beat Tom Slingsby’s Aussies and claim top spot in the Season 2 leaderboard after the opening event. Great Britain and Australia were joined by France in the Final, with

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AUSTRALIA DOMINATES BERMUDA SAIL GRAND PRIX WITH CLEAN SWEEP OF DAY ONE WINS

Grand Prix, SailGP

The Australia SailGP Team started its defense of the SailGP Championship in perfect fashion by ending the first day of the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess top of the leaderboard with a clean sweep of three wins from three. A stunning late overtake of France propelled the Aussies to victory in race

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Dean Barker wins Harken Young 88 Nationals onboard Doyle powered Dangerzone

One Design, Racing

This weekend’s Harken Young 88 National Champs saw a “slight” change of pace for one of NZ’s best known cup sailors. They are amongst the high calibre fleet of fifteen one design keel boats. The newest crew to join the fleet are “Team Barker” as the new owners of Dangerzone taking over from “Team Marsh”

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WE ARE DOYLE – Brand story

Cruising, Grand Prix, Loft Network, One Design, Racing, SailGP, Superyacht, Technology

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SAILGP ‘BLOODY SCARY’ BUT ‘A HELL OF A LOAD OF FUN’

Grand Prix, SailGP

If you have ever travelled in a car, that most typical of daily tasks, the chances are you will know what moving at 60 miles per hour feels like. But do you have any idea how it feels to be out on the waves on one of SailGP’s cutting-edge F50 catamarans, hitting nearly 60 mph

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65 years on, Zephyr nationals still attracting big fleet

One Design

The nationals, which runs from April 9-12, will be the 65th edition for the class and competing this weekend will be several former national and world champions, round the world sailors, Olympians and ‘retired’ America’s Cup sailors. Greg Wright, who has won two of the last three nationals, will be back to defend the title he

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A delivery aboard Rio 100

Grand Prix

A college student skips school for a once-in-a-lifetime offshore delivery aboard a supermaxi racing yacht. It was 0300, and I was on the helm of one of the fastest monohull racing yachts on Earth; the Bakewell-White-designed supermaxi racing yacht Rio 100. With a reef in the main, a small jib set and a large reaching

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