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The swedish brand Sail Racing, the marine clothing brand with a focus on advanced racing gear for 'sailing athletes', has launched its new technical collection 'REFERENCE'.

The collection is designed in Sail Racing Design Lab to cover the sailor's needs in high performance racing, with garments made in GORE-TEX® Stretch, lightweight WINDSTOPPER and All-Way Stretch Quickdry.

”The Reference collection is the focus of all the knowledge we acquired, working in close corporation with ORACLE TEAM USA in their campaign to defend the 35th America’s Cup. The design of the Reference products follows the caharacteristics and aesthetic of our true DNA. We have put our heart and soul into creating this collection” says Henric Vikestam, Head of Sail Racing Design & Production.

The products in the Reference Collection are made in three color settings and are now available at Sail Racing Club House and online at sailracing.com for shipping worldwide.

On July 7, 1977, the Sail Racing brand was officially registered and was re-launched 1999. Today, Sail Racing International AB is a highly specialised company based in Sweden. All Sail Racing products are available globally online here

Published in Marine Clothing

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago