SOLAR POWERED SAIL-MAKING
Doyle Sails Barbados, the major sail manufacturer in the Caribbean exporting to the world, currently produces more electricity from the photovoltaic array on its buildings than it consumes from making sails and operating the loft.
Doyle success at RPAYC Annual Pittwater Regatta
Doyle Sydney customers see success on and off the water at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s annual Pittwater Regatta 2024“Our customers and staff had the best weekend on the water, racing in the Pittwater Regatta” says a very chuffed Shane Guanaria of Doyle Sails Sydney “Our apprentice Garth provided fantastic overnight sail service to […]
52 SUPERSERIES SAILOR VICTOR MARINO JOINS DOYLE SAILS
Doyle Sails welcomes Grand Prix Spanish sailor Victor Marino to the team of ever-expanding experts, where he is set to join the world-class sales and project management team. Marino’s vast knowledge and experience in the sailing industry make him an excellent addition to the Doyle Sails International team, where he will share his passion and […]
Doyle SAils ONE DESIGN SUCCESS
Doyle Sails are showing dominance in Doyle One Design mid-winter events in the United States, while teams get in the extra miles ahead of the busy summer season. FIRST AND SECOND AT J70 MIDWINTERSDavis Island Winter Series 3 saw Doyle success for two teams over the past weekend on Hillsborough Bay, Brian Keane on Savasana […]
THREE NEW VENUES FOR 44CUP: 2024 SEASON ANNOUNCED
Doyle-powered 44Cup teams look set for some new venues for the 2024 Season, Doyle expert Will Alloway will be at each event. Take a look at the full report out of the 44Cup for the new venues. It’s all change for the 44Cup’s 16th season in 2024. While the circuit for the high performance owner-driver one […]
Doyle-Powered WInNERS for Bay of Islands Race week
Bay of Islands Race Week boasts to be New Zealand’s best big boat regatta, and this week it certainly was, with Doyle Sails New Zealand customers taking out podium places across the big boat divisions. The regatta is situated in the stunning Bay of Islands in Northland, in some of the most picturesque sailing waters, […]
Warrior Won wins Transatlantic Race
PAC52 Warrior Won (USA), owned and skippered by Chris Sheehan, has claimed the overall title for the 10th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race. Warrior Won’s corrected time under IRC after they completed the 3000 nm race on January 18 in an elapsed time of 11 days 5 hrs 18 mins and 28 secs. Warrior […]
WENDY’S HOUSE : ELFJE
Sometimes the joy is almost as much in the journey when creating a beautiful boat. Here, we find out the unique path that American philanthropist Wendy Schmidt’s primary Superyacht took into being Wendy Schmidt’s first sailing experience did little to foreshadow the role that boats would later come to play in her life. In fact, […]
A GREEN REVOLUTION: GELLICEAUX
TIDE MAGAZINE – EDITION 7 WORDS SAMUEL JEFFERSON IMAGES SOUTHERN WIND With Gelliceaux, Southern Wind has successfully created a boat that is almost as sustainable as it is stylish. Here we explore how The green revolution within the boat-building industry continues apace with the launch of Southern Wind’s Smart Custom 108. This is hull number one in this […]
Seahorse News Around the World
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 […]
Sydney Loft add talented sailmaker Matt Pearce to the mix
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 […]
ALIVE confirmed as overall IRC winners IN ROLEX SYDNEY TO HOBART
Article below courtesy of Suellen Hurling // Live Sail Die. Doyle-powered Alive, skippered by Duncan Hine, has been declared the overall winner of the 78th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, securing the Tasmanian boat its second victory in five years. The win is also Tasmania’s fifth in the 628 nautical mile Cruising Yacht Club of […]
72 Race starts for father and Son duo on Boxing Day
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 […]
NEW ZEALAND CLAIMS VICTORY IN CLOSEST FINAL IN SAILGP HISTORY
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 […]
the Doyle experience
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 […]
Next generation of ocean champions
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 […]
TAKE TWO
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 […]
Case proved
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 […]
Clarisse Crémer and Alan Roberts (L’Occitane en Provence) finish 9th in IMOCA
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 […]
DOYLE-POWERED M5 Commissions new sails
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 […]