Stunning Café Racer offers ease of use, style and sustainability
Press Release from Baltic Yachts / Finland / June 2021 : BALTIC 68 CAFÉ RACER The first Baltic 68 Café Racer was launched on schedule last week when her super-stylish looks were revealed, her ease of use demonstrated and a new era of low carbon footprint yacht building unveiled With her flax-reinforced hull, eco-electric propulsion, […]
SAILGP INSIDER: BURPEES, BREATHING AND BIG RISKS – THE INCREDIBLE CHALLENGE OF F50 SAFETY TRAINING
Published by SailGP 1 June 2021 Given the incredible speeds the F50 hits while racing, it’s no surprise SailGP’s number one priority is safety. During the first event of Season 2, the Great Britain SailGP Team clocked a remarkable top speed of 94.8 km/h (51.2 knots/58.9 mph) – setting a new SailGP record – in […]
Callisto Racing wins first leg of California Offshore Race Week and The Spinnaker Cup
The 2021 California Offshore Race Week is a highlight in North American sailing calendars, and this year even more so. With the San Diego Yacht Club and Santa Barbara Yacht Club co-hosting their signature offshore races of the summer, beginning with The Spinnaker Cup (from San Francisco to Monterey), followed by the Coastal Cup (from […]
Kawau Island Tree Planting & Restoration Project
Our vision is that kiwi and other native birdlife will return to the RNZYS site on Kawau Island. To achieve this the current invasive tree species need to be removed from the site. This will cost up to $150,000 in year one and will kick start the project effectively. The initial priority is to cut […]
The New England Beetle Cat celebrates 100 years of sailing
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 […]
Will Alloway is taking the 5.5m class to a new level with Doyle Sails
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 […]
Top Four at Mexican J70 National Championship
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 […]
Doyle Sails success at the 68th ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay Race
“The 68th ORCV Melbourne to Apollo Bay race was off after a delayed start of 10 mins on a chilly morning in 10-12 knots of breeze from the North, with 40 boats and some 280 crew onboard about to commence what turned out to be a glorious days sailing” commented the Race Director. Out of those […]
Aon Class of the Month – Cherub association
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 […]
All in a day’s work
Article courtesy of Seahorse Magazine Sails for an 81-metre Panamax three-masted schooner, total sail area 3,500sqm… that won’t be a problem, sir Main picture: Doyle designed and built the sails for the 81m world cruising schooner Sea Eagle II, which sets 3,500sqm of canvas on a three-masted Rondal rig with carbon composite rigging. Easy sail handling was […]
SailGP makes an impact with purpose-driven projects in Bermuda
by SailGP 15 May With the high-speed pace being set by the annual, global championship’s Season 2 opening event in Bermuda, SailGP’s purpose-driven mantle to Race for the Future as an international leader in sustainable sport and entertainment wasted no time making its mark – setting the stage for subsequent events – pushing forward to […]
New Zealand sailmaker and Grand Prix sailor Justin Ferris brings knowledge and experience to Doyle Sails.
Justin began his sail-making career in the Bay of Island New Zealand in 1991 under the guidance of Simon Willis, and completed his sailmaking apprenticeship before heading off to work in the US. On his return in 1999 Justin started what has led to a long relationship with Doyle Sails working as service manager before heading off […]
Breaking boundaries with the environmentally focused Baltic 68 Café Racer and Doyle Sails
Designed to deliver an electrifying performance in more ways than one, this easy to handle day sail yacht is boosted by green power. The un-plug and go electric propulsion and generation system is super eco-friendly and finished to a luxurious standard on deck and below. Doyle Sails and Baltic Yachts have seen many successful collaborations […]
First and second for Doyle Sails at the 2021 J/70 North American Championships
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 […]
Matador sweeps TP52 Gold Cup Act II
The Sydney TP52 scene’s most recent addition, Matador, has claimed both the IRC and TPR handicaps at the TP52 Gold Cup Act II regatta held during the first weekend of May 2021. The grand prix racer owned by David Doherty was competing in just its second official regatta after posting a promising fourth on IRC and […]
Screaming performer… and 100 per cent reality
Published by Seahorse Magazine – May 2021 in conjunction with Infiniti Yachts Main picture: Infiniti Yachtsʼ vision is to raise the bar, not inch by inch but in leaps and bounds. The new Infiniti 52 currently in build is the latest step in that journey. The deck plan is designed for a much smaller crew than […]
Hugely desirable (and completely outrageous)
Published by Seahorse Magazine – May 2021 Main picture: the big reveal… Baltic Yachts’ 68ft (21m) Café Racer is de-moulded at Pietarsaari in Finland. A groundbreaking boat in many ways, the new Café Racer is built using natural flax fibre for about half of the hull structure in place of the usual carbon fibre, significantly reducing […]
Stu Bannatyne – King of the Southern Ocean
Article courtesy of Michael Brown, Yachting New Zealand – Dated 28th June 2018. Stu Bannatyne is known as a few things, including king of the Southern Ocean, but can now add the title as the most successful sailor in Volvo Ocean Race history. Not that he’s likely to go around crowing about that because he’s one […]
Jud Smith | Unlocking the J/70’s Go-Fast Setup
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 […]
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 […]