Will Alloway wins with new Doyle Sails Structured luff 5.5m sails at the Yacht Club Spiez in Switzerland Will Alloway from Doyle Sails Solent has been working closely with Richard Bouzaid, head of design for Doyle Sails, to produce world class 5.5m Strutrued Luff sails along with new downwind sails designed by Andrew Lechte. Straight …
While still in high school in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Lindsay Smith started her sail making career, pounding snaps, cutting numbers, and sweeping floors at the Doyle Curtis loft in Marblehead. Fast forward 15 years, and Lindsay Smith is now the Loft Manager of Doyle Sailmakers Partners in Salem, MA. Lindsay works closely with her father, the …
Lindsay Smith, the face behind the Doyle Sails One Design powerhouse. Read More »
Ben Saxton Olympic sailor with a wealth of experience across so many disciplines. To date, Ben’s expertise lies at the top end of One Design sailing, holding many European and World titles, and since coming on board with Doyle Sails, he has been able to pass some of this experience to UK sailors across the board. …
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Doyle Sails Russia in good hands with the announcement that One Design sailor Alexander Zybin will be coming onboard and joining the already star studded line up of One Design experts. With 25 years of racing experience under his belt Alexander Zybin has a wealth of knowledge to offer to Doyle Sails customers, and it …
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The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Beetle Cat sailboat. This will make the “Beetle Cat” the oldest one design that has been continuously produced out of wood and continues to be competitively raced for the past 100 years. The boat is a big part of New England history, sailing, wooden boats, and …
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Northern Italy in the spring, and in particular Lake Garda, is famous for attracting sailors from all over the world to sail in Italy’s largest lake where the breeze is steady, and the climate is mild. This spring, it has provided picturesque training grounds for Doyle Sails Solent expert and high-performance sailor Will Alloway and …
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The Mexican J70 National Championship wrapped up this past weekend, held over three days and hosted by Vallarta Yacht Club, Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit for the second year. Doyle Sails customers placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th overall and 1st Corinthian, with the new Structured Luff jibs proving their place on the podium again. Black Mamba …
Published by Yachting New Zealand – May 19 2021 What started for Mike Sanderson as a way to “rip around the harbour” with his son to try to keep him in the sport has seen the revival of the Cherub class in this country. It’s got to the point where production of the 12-foot long planing dinghy …
Fifty-nine teams battled each other and the elements at the 2021 J/70 North American Championship hosted by Annapolis Yacht Club (Maryland USA). Congratulations to all sailors especially Peter Duncan and his crew on Relative Obscurity and Ryan McKillen onboard Surge. Despite breezy conditions during the registration days, mother nature then turned off the winds, allowing …
First and second for Doyle Sails at the 2021 J/70 North American Championships Read More »
Written by Jud Smith for Sailing World The J/70 is a bit narrower than some of the other racing boats out there, so it’s a little tricky upwind because it’s more tender—it goes from being a boat that’s pretty underpowered in light air to a boat that needs to start depowering once the wind gets around …
