Seahorse Magazine // News Around the World New Zealand’s premier offshore race, the annual 120-mile Coastal Classic from Auckland to the Bay of Islands, this year suffered the first fatality in its 41-year history, the death of 69-year-old Simon Smith, a well-loved schoolmaster and experienced sailor, casting a pall over the popular event. A lifelong […]
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Matt Pearce has been in the sailmaking industry for close to four decades working for lofts and professional racing teams, beginning his sailmaking career with Ian Short Sails in 1984, and moving through his apprenticeship and gaining the skill set to run the loft floor. Matt then continued to upskill taking his wealth of knowledge to One
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Published by the CYCA // 18th Dec 2023 Collectively, Bruce and his son Drew Taylor have spent the best part of a lifetime sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Sailing on Bruce Taylor’s Reichel/Pugh 40, Chutzpah, this year’s race will be their 30th together from a total of 72 starts between them. It will mark a
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SUNDAY 10 DEC 2023, DUBAI, UAE New Zealand has claimed victory on the Persian Gulf after the closest three-boat final of the season. With all three teams coming together at the final mark, a last-minute penalty denied Canada the win while New Zealand crossed the finish inches ahead of Australia. New Zealand has jumped from
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No company illustrates the power of unboxing like Apple. Opening the box of a new Apple product draws you in and creates a sensory experience. The box’s design and the process of unboxing speak to a deep level of human psychology, creating feelings of emotive attachment. Now there is the Doyle Experience. The size of
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Doyle Sails are a proud partner of Live Ocean Foundation, this great fundraising initiative from a group of young New Zealand sailors to support Live Ocean is pretty impressive, read all about their challenge below. Six ambitious young kiwi sailors from Queen Charlotte Yacht Club in Marlborough are planning to attempt a Cook Strait crossing
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Republished from TIDE MAGAZINE Baltic Yachts created quite a stir when it launched its 68 Café Racer, Pink Gin Verde. Now hull number two, Open Season, is on the water and the devil is in the difference. Every now and again a yacht comes along that makes waves: case in point – the 68’ Café Racer. Hull
Seahorse Magazine // written by Ivor Wilkins. Dec 2023 The value of the Doyle Sails expert goes far beyond the role of sailmaker Success, according to the prolific 19th century American inventor Thomas Edison, is 10 per cent inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration. It is also a formula Justin Ferris applies to grand prix
Published by Transat Jacques Vabre – November 22nd, 2023 France’s Clarisse Crémer and British co-skipper Alan Roberts completed the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre this morning at 06:20:00 hrs local time (1020 hrs UTC) off Fort de France, taking ninth place in the IMOCA class on the two handed race from Le Havre to Martinique
Clarisse Crémer and Alan Roberts (L’Occitane en Provence) finish 9th in IMOCA Read More »
At 78m, M5 is the world’s largest single-masted sailing yacht, with its mast reaching 86m in height. It is a sailing yacht owned by an aviator with a need for speed and a project that combines pragmatism and ambition in perfect measure. The yacht recently took delivery of a new Doyle Sails inventory featuring a
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