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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

Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.