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News - Spring
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Recap of Block Island Race Awards
Tribe Sweeps the Podium |
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> Tribe's finish time of 14 hrs, 22mi,
31sec is established as the official Block Island Race
record for fastest to finish by a multihull
> Tribe finished 2nd over the line behind Comanche's
11hhrs, 25 min finish time
> Tribe finished 1st in the multihull class
> Tribe corrected 1st for overall fleet performance
beating Comanche by 3hrs, 7 min
> Tribe was awarded the Commodore's Grail Trophy for
best corrected time
Go Tribe..... Go Doyle!
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News -
September 18-19, 2010 |
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Doyle Ploch sails
excel in light air lake sailing!
'dain bramage' prevails in C22 'Gone with the Wind'
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2004 Catalina 22 National Champion, Mike Glover
with Kelly Winter on 'dain bramage'
(formerly Free James Brown Again), won the 'Gone With the
Wind Regatta' held near Atlanta. 45 boats from 9 states
(AL, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, OH, SC, TN) gathered on Lake Lanier
in the Catalina 22, but it was a Doyle Ploch
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News - Summer
2010 |
Another win
for the Wings team! The J 122 National Championships
held during the NYYC one design regatta in Newport Ri.
Wings had a
convincing win with 5 firsts and a second! Great job!!
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NEWS
- Summer 2010 |
Congratulations to Jim Shaughnessy and crew on
Arbella for a terrific Class win and 3rd
overall
in the 2010 Bermuda Race!!
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NEWS
- Spring/Summer 2010 |
Sandy Weil and Andy Giglia
crushed the double handed fleet
at the 2010!
Sandy Weil &
Andy Giglia on "Patriot took home four trophies
with, 1st in the PHRF double handed division,
1st in overall PHRF elapsed, 1st in
overall PHRF corrected, and most important the
coveted "Edlu Trophy" for 1st in fleet in
overall corrected time
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- Spring/Summer 2010 |
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NEWS
- Spring/Summer 2010 |
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CHECK THIS OUT!
OH Rodgers new cat with
feathered mast!!
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NEWS
- Fall/Winter 2009-2010 |
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The
new loft floor fills up quickly with a CNB 90 mainsail! |
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NEWS
- Winter 2007/2008 |
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Red Dragon |
These sails mark a milestone for Stratis and by far the largest
inlaid fiber sails produced by anyone. The total Stratis
membranes on board this boat account for over 27,000 sq ft of
sail area – with the reacher alone coming in at over 8000 sq ft,
that is impressive by any measure! |
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NEWS
- Fall 2007 |
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LONG BEACH - “We plan to keep sailing consistently. That is how
we win regattas.” The father/son team Brian and Stephen
Tedeschi, sailing their boat Tastes Like Chicken, Newport,
R.I., won the second annual J/109 North American
Championships last weekend in the waters off Long Beach.
With crew Tony Tedeschi, Mark Ploch, Mark “Gonzo” Gonzales, Alex
Millet, Melody Schleusner, and Peter Hamm, they won through
consistency, being the only team to collect only top five
scores. Complete reports from all three days are here:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/07/1028/ |
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NEWS
- Fall 2007 |
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Hylas 70 - Sea Trials
Hylas 70 #2 flies through her sea trails off Fort Lauderdale in
a wide range of conditions. Hydra-Net radial cloth is used
throughout the inventory and reacts very much like a laminate
but more rugged and a much softer hand with little chance of
mildew.
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NEWS
- Summer 2007 |
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 Congratulations!
TASTES LIKE CHICKEN YET AGAIN!!
In sailboat racing there are two degrees of quickness:
there's fast and then there's blazing fast. Ask Stephen
Tedeschi where his J/109 team fell in that range at this
weekend's Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta in Larchmont and I
guarantee he have no qualms confessing that his Tastes Like
Chicken is plenty fast: fast enough, that is, to earn the
regatta's overall trophy and a trip to the British Virgin
Islands for the Caribbean NOOD Championship in November.
Eighty-one boats competed in eight classes. Also
Congratulations to Dominic and Missy Porco winning IRC in
there X-35 and Bill Purdy taking a 2nd place in the tuff
Beneteau 36.7 class!
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NEWS
- Summer 2007 |
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Congratulations!
TASTES LIKE CHICKEN AGAIN!!
Block Island race Week Rolex One Design Overall Champion
Steve Tedeschi topped a very
competitive J 109 fleet to win the One Design Rolex watch
trophy!
Steve was not the only one to bring home some Silver: Andrew
Weiss won 2nd in his IRC division & Mike Perry and Bill
Purdy picked up 3rd place
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NEWS
- Summer 2007 |
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June 29, 2007 - Day 68
Wind SE 5-10 knots, Course SSE, Speed 3.5-4 knots
It's the sails that move us and thanks to Doyle sails we are on
our way.
Paul Beaudin of Doyle sail company has been taking care the 1000
Day mission for seven years now. We were a little slow getting
started, but Paul kept believing in the project. We fly all
Doyle sails and though they are no longer new, they are holding
up very well. Sailing a traditional schooner on long voyages can
be a lot of wear and tear on the sails. I must admit, I am not
the perfect sailor and I make mistakes. I try to take care of
the sails as well as I can, but sometimes they still get
damaged. I've torn reefing grommets and chafed seams that have
opened up. Now that I'm at sea, I fix everything myself. My do
it on the spot heavy handed needle is not always proper and
neat, but over the years it holds and I'm not slow to go back
and repair again if necessary. While constantly making repairs
around the schooner, I've had the clumsiness of loosing some
tools overboard, so I'm very careful not to bring my whole spool
of sail sewing thread outdoors, just pieces of it for each job.
I have plenty of needles and sail material, and so long as I
have thread, I'll keep these sails going for the duration of the
voyage.
Reid Stowe - 1000 Days Voyage |
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NEWS
- Spring 2007 |
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THREE HARKOMS, winner of Non Spinnaker Class 1 at the BVI Race
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NEWS
- Summer 2006 |
Doyle Sweeps LIS PHRF Championships
Congratulations to Rich Gold and crew on the NY 36
Turning Point for delivering a dominating performance using
Doyle Stratis Sails to take top honors in the Long island Sound
PHRF Championships hosted by Riverside Yacht Club in Greenwich
Connecticut.
Special thanks to Allen Clark of Photoboat.com for
letting us use this photo. |
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NEWS
- Summer 2006 |
Hot News form Doyle Sails Early Summer 2006 - Spring Triple
Crown
Doyle sweeps American Spring Series taking all top fleet wins
Christopher Dragon Andrew Weiss’ J-130 was overall
IRC victor using a combination of Stratis molded sails and TRT
radial paneled sails, all with Carbon. Downwind, the 3 season
old Contender .5 Superlight VMG spinnaker has been unbeatable.
Paul Beaudin noted “after being very worried about the ability
to compete under the IRC rule, just keeping the sail inventory
versitile and up to date has the boat performing extremely well.
Big gains off the wind by adding a smaller more specific light
air VMG spinnaker has been fantastic. Many Asymmetrics are just
too big to support deep angles in light air and the molded shape
is critical to keep flow attached while pressing the boat as
deep as possible.”
Turning Point, the NY 36 skippered by Rich Gold was
top in the PHRF Fleet using again Stratis and traditional Aramid
radials. Rich says “the sails are holding up so well I am afraid
I not the best customer. The older sails are still getting the
job done”
Damian Emery’s Eclipse won the competitive J-105 class
using our new Stratis class legal Twaron Jib to take top
One-Design honors.
Block Island Race - Slow Road
Christopher Dragon and crew stuck out the very light
condition to finish first in class in the Block Island Race. Of
the 103 boats that started only 15 finished. Dragon won the
class with the most finishers (4). beating the 2 rival ( and
faster) J-133s boat for boat after a neck and neck battle the
last day. Paul was on board and his only comment “the picture
says it all”.
Newport- Bermuda 2006
Christopher Dragon and crew again topped the podium
with a victory in IRC for class in the 100th running of this
fantastic race. Paul was on board and comments “ the decision to
take a western route was a tough call with all the top
navigators and the routing software pointing to a wide eastern
course. It was a choice I was glad not to have to make and must
commend our navigator Larry Fox and skipper Andrew Weiss in
having the where with all to go with their gut feelings. The
standard forecast called for decent westerly winds for the
beginning and the they held for us right into the stream where
we went on a beautiful blast reach for 14 hours making around 11
knots through the water and 15 over the ground. The .75 reaching
spinnaker was like a rock and enjoyed the very tight angles
without a lot of fuss. For the first 2 days we were the closest
boat to Bermuda with the big boats stuck in the east. On the
second morning we were 75 miles ahead of Maximus( also a Doyle
customer), go figure. Of coarse at 3am on the last morning, I
was standing on the bow with a telltale on the end of a batten
wondering what happened to all the smokers when you need them.”
Dragon also was part of the winning Onion Patch Team from Indian
Harbor yacht club, which included Crescendo and Brown
Eyed Girl.
Finally a Fast one - 2006 Around Long Island Race
Christopher Dragon again stepped up to the plate to
take top honors in PHRF and were runners up in IRC behind the
record breaker 77' turbo -sled Alchemy. Christopher Dragon
was holding even with the boats in the next faster division
sailing with a Jib top and staysail combo. Owner Andrew said ‘
we finally decided to try going with the APR-80 reaching
spinnaker and proceeded to pass the next faster division to be
the second boat around Montauk Light. The Reacher is fantastic,
stable and easy to fly. Everyone else were wiping out around us,
we just sailed by. 15.5 knots of boat speed in 20 knots true
wind on a 43 foot cruiser racer is pretty nice. The reacher now
replaces the VMG as our favorite sail.' |
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RACING
NEWS
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Johnny Roberts Farr 39 wins the
Dauphin Island RaceJohnny Roberts first time out in
his newly acquired and totally refinished Farr 39 took the
Dauphin Island races in very windy conditions. Check out his
new Carbon fiber main.
Photo courtesy of David Jefcoat - STARFISH PHOTOS
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RACING
NEWS
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Winning Ways - 2006!
St. Maarten Heineken - 1st in class
Rolex St. Thomas - 1st in class
BVI Spring Regatta - 3rd in class, 1st every race
by at least 5 min corrected, but a dsq one race.
Culebra International - 2nd, beat by a Soveral
27, 4 knots average wind speed
Three Harkoms, the modified Beneteau Oceanis
440 that was managed by Doyle BVI, finished Antigua Sailing Week
first in Performance Cruiser 2 and first in the Performance
Cruiser fleet, adding a second Rolex this year to a rather
considerable list of firsts. Conditions were variable with races
peaking at six knots one day, eighteen the next, with ten being
the average. Three Harkoms had enough speed in all
conditions, thanks to a very special Caribbean inventory
prepared by Doyle Ploch Sails in Florida, to stay in the top
three in all races, finishing with three firsts and two thirds
in class and 1,2,3,6,10 in fleet.
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RACING
NEWS
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Northern Winds, a new Farr 56 owned by Bob DeMattia
has won Cruising Class A in the 2005 ARC. Bob and his crew, Kim
Flora, Bob DeClercq, Jason Breckenridge and Jeff Taylor were the
6th boat to cross the finish line finishing ahead of all the
racing class's. Their elapsed time was 16d 5h 44m. For more
details go to arc.worldcruising.com. Congratulations Bob and
team!
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RACING
NEWS
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Winning in the Beneteau 36.7
Mark Ploch
DOYLE PLOCH SAILS
A winning campaign is always a product of preparation! With the
Beneteau 36.7 that starts with the bottom. Be sure that all the
through-hulls are faired into the hull to be as smooth as
possible. The keel comes in pretty good condition from the
factory, but it also will need some smoothing and sanding before
it is truly race-ready. As always, some keels start off better
than others, and on mine all I needed was a thick barrier coat
and some good wet-sanding.
Now that the bottom is a smooth as possible with the orange
peel in the bottom paint sanded out, it's time to look at the
deck layout. It is very important to be able to control the
sails and make changes to optimize the sail shapes for changing
conditions. We took the main traveler purchase blocks off the
traveler and moved them to the jib tracks--this increased the
purchase on the jib car, and made a nicer place for main trimmer
to sit! The main traveler controls were changes to bullet blocks
bolted along side the traveler; I did not move the cleats to the
side of the boat from the car, but I think if I step on the
traveler line and uncleat it one more time I would! The other
important control to bring closer is the backstay. This should
be led so that it can be easily adjusted by the main trimmer.
Sailing the Beneteau 36.7 fast is not as easy as you may
think. It is very important to get up to full speed out of the
tack as quickly as possible, and this usually means have the jib
and main only trimmed to about 85%. Once you increase close to
the target you can trim to 100% or whatever is appropriate for
the wind and sea conditions to maintain your target speed. In
very light air and lumpy water you rarely trim more than 85%-- I
found very quickly that sailing above the target speed upwind is
a NO-gainer! In fact, in smooth water the biggest gains are to
sail pinched! Keeping the main with all telltales flowing is
also very fast, a tight leech -- especially in big puffy breeze
-- is very slow and hard to steer straight. Plenty of backstay,
a flat main, and not too high up on the traveler is good. The
genoa is not sheeted to a very close angle and therefore it is
not so important to bring the main much over center.
We also keep our weight very packed together on the rail,
with one person hiking in front of the shrouds. This crew
location also works very well downwind -- until you get winds
over 20 knots, when you'll want to slide aft! We did not change
down to the #3 until the wind was a solid 18 knots. You can get
by with the genoa in 20 knots of breeze, but it is very hard on
the main. You will be just as fast and maybe higher if you go
with the #3 and keep the main trimmed, instead of flogging, most
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