Tom Pilkington: eSailing Champion
At eleven-years-old, Tom Pilkington has just become the latest eSailor to have success on the virtual sailing scene. Father, Guy Pilkington, is one of the New Zealand based Doyle Sails experts, and continues to support Tom on his sailing journey. Debra Douglas from Breeze Magazine, the official publication of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, […]
NIKKI: Kids Foiling is changing the game!
Check out Royal Yachting Association‘s review of the NIKKI, the newest member of the Skeeta Foiling Craft family and the first purpose-built junior foiling yacht, proudly powered by Doyle Sails. Nikki is a brand new dinghy designed and built by big kids, for kids and lighter sailors. A boat we wished we had when we were younger and […]
SAILGP ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF NEW ZEALAND TEAM, LED BY OLYMPIC AND AMERICA’S CUP CHAMPIONS PETER BURLING AND BLAIR TUKE
Announced today was the latest addition to the SailGP circuit, a New Zealand team, led by Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. Doyle Sails is the proud supplier to SailGP, and a supporter of Peter and Blair’s Live Ocean charity, so an exciting partnership we’re looking forward to seeing on the water next April. AUCKLAND, New […]
Unstoppable – the evolution of Doyle Sails Newport
Doyle Sails has become a global leader in sailmaking by working with some of the most successful sailors in the industry. So when CEO Mike Sanderson was deciding what the next phase might be with Doyle Sails’ US presence, he called Tony Rey. For most of his career, Tony had been “agnostic” about sailmaking brands, […]
Melges IC37 Jerome, making waves.
Father and son team, Fred and Ward Detwiler are causing a stir, not only in Detroit but throughout the Midwest in their new Melges IC37, Jerome. Jerome is an innovative one design yacht that is built to perform, but achieves the ultimate balance remaining as a class that continues to develop keen sailors seeking the opportunity to […]
Number One – The story of Ichi Ban
Published with permission by Seahorse Magazine. For more information, please visit seahorsemagazine.com Ichi Ban has a partial Doyle Sails inventory, with ongoing development in the Cableless and Structured Luff sails. If you race offshore in Australia there is one boat that you will (always) have to get past to have any chance of winning. Rob Kothe talks […]
The secret to Geoff Boettcher’s success is Secret Mens Business.
Geoff Boettcher is a legend, not only to those that know him personally but amongst the South Australian yachting community, dedicating a large part of his time to the sport he loves. He’s a Foundation Member, ex Commodore and Board member of the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia, with a sailing obsession spanning close […]
Doyle Sails Solent continues to strengthen
World-class sailors join the ranks at Doyle Sails Solent. Doyle Sails Solent is no stranger to legendary sailors joining their team and 2020 shows no sign of slowing down with Will Alloway and Nicholas ‘Nin’ O’Leary strengthening the UK based team. People are at the core of what makes Doyle Sails tick, and while Doyle […]
SEA EAGLE II STARTS MAIDEN VOYAGE
Sea Eagle II is a truly breathtaking contemporary three-masted schooner proudly powered by Doyle Sails. Designing and building sails to fulfill and exceed the requirements of a vessel of this calibre is an art form, one of which Richard Bouzaid and the Doyle Sails design team is proud to have mastered. Over the course of the […]
Stratis Extension and Pushing Boundaries
Doyle Sails International is excited to announce that after 12 months in development, the new extension to our state of the art Stratis facility in Auckland, New Zealand is now operational. Doyle Sails New Zealand opened in 1999 with the Stratis facility launching in 2001, to serve a growing demand for high-performance sails that were lighter, […]
The quest to save the Antipodean Albatross
To celebrate World Albatross Day on 19 June, Live Ocean collaborated with a very important team including Science Alive Mātauranga, Taylormade Media and a host of others to connect New Zealanders to the story of the incredible Antipodean albatross and the dangers it faces at sea. The Albatross is an iconic species of bird that has a strong […]
LOFT SPOTLIGHT: Doyle Sails Italy
The Italian city of Palermo on the island of Sicily has been the home to Doyle Sails Italy for over 20 years – a city steeped in culture and history offering one of the most picturesque sailing destinations on the Mediterranean Sea. With so many Superyachts, racers and cruisers calling the Mediterranean home, Salvo D’Amico, […]
2019/2020 Suncoast Boat of the Year results
The West Florida Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (WFPHRF) 2019 / 2020 Suncoast Boat of the Year (BOTY) series wrapped last month with two events being scrubbed due to Covid -19. The final big event of the season for local Tampa Bay sails was the Davis Island Yacht Club’s Not Ft. Myers Race on 23 May, with Doyle powered […]
DELTA CABLELESS onboard a Beale 33
For Brent Jeffries, the current owner of a Beale 33, and a Doyle Sails Cableless technology advocate, his lifetime of experience as a cruiser/racer and keen double-handed sailor has given him an appreciation for both innovation and affordability in a sail inventory. Brent has been sailing for more than four decades continuously in search of […]
Introducing the new Doyle Sails Newport team
Newport, Rhode Island is a global sailing city where many America’s Cup Challenges and world championships have contributed to the growth of yachting and the sport’s storied past. Given Newport’s picturesque landscape and maritime history, sailors are inevitably offered a charming experience. With a large number of significant regattas and yachts calling Newport home, coupled […]
A catch up with Stu Bannatyne
Originally published on 21st April 2020 Vitorlázás magazine Photo credit: Martin Keruzoré / Volvo Ocean Race Hungarian sailing magazine Vitorlázás caught up with Doyle Sails sailing legend Stu Bannatyne over lockdown to talk about his experiences of sailing for Hungarian race team Wild Joe and how sailing might evolve in a post Covid world. How are your days in […]
DSS goes Cableless
The creative talents of Infiniti Yachts and Doyle Sails – between them responsible for two of the biggest breakthroughs in modern performance yachting – have joined forces to produce something more than special. The Infiniti 52 is the first modern racing boat to be designed and engineered to take full advantage of Doyle Sails Cableless […]
Team Maverick: Pushing the boundaries.
Quentin Stewart, who, after sailing in the 2013 Rolex Sydney Hobart decided that he wanted a fast boat and rather than buying a TP52 or a Cookson 50 and adding modifications, Stewart was convinced that building a project from scratch would ensure that it performed exactly as designed without compromise. And just like that, Stewart […]
DOYLE SAILS: The new Conquistadors
Powering 100-foot supermaxis and giant superyachts, winning the Maxi72 worlds, equipping the Vendée Globe favourite and infiltrating the fastest giant French multihulls… Doyle Sails is on a mission to win everything. 2019 ended on a strong note for Doyle Sails with yachts carrying its inventory winning a hard-fought line honours and second place in the […]
LOFT SPOTLIGHT: Doyle Sails Solent
Just over a year ago, British sailing legends Peter Greenhalgh, Adrian Stead and Brian Thompson became part of the team at Doyle Sails Solent. As the home to one of the biggest sail lofts in the UK, the ultra-modern, 1000 sqm facility in Universal Marina on the River Hamble is about the size of four […]