A Happy New Year everyone from all of us here in North Sails Ireland!
Fingers crossed that the next few months will see a brighter future for us all and our sport that we love. Here at North Sails we are working assiduously and responsibly behind the scenes to help make this a reality.
We took the liberty of personally delivering some new sails to customers who were unable to collect them due to the 5km restriction. Fully masked and sanitised, we dropped some Water Wag sails to Rathmines and two sets of Puppeteer sails to Howth.
It was a delight to unroll Sarah Robertson's new GN-1B genoa in her garden yesterday. Her GN-1B is manufactured in premium RSQ 5.55 hard finish "Polykote" racing polyester manufactured by Contender. The finishing detailing on the sail is superb - congratulations to our wonderful sailmakers on the loft floor and our lead designer in our one-design group, Ruairidh Scott.
Sarah is the daughter of PRO doyen David Lovegrove and her Puppeteer "Snowgoose" has been in the family for many years. I may have team-raced against Sarah in the 90's - that's all a bit hazy but I look forward to a race with Sarah and her team in 2021 - if they'll have me!
North Sails have been involved in the P22 class in Howth since 2009 and I have had the pleasure of competing in some fantastic races there whilst helping teams get their Pups up to speed.
2019 Puppeteer Nationals winner "Yellow Peril", skippered by former ISA President Neil Murphy. Yellow Peril is flying her North Sails PM-1 spinnaker manufactured in A GRADE Contender Superkote and her PM3 mainsail manufactured in Contender RSQ Polykote 6.05 polyester. Photo: WM Nixon
Scorie Walls and Declan Browne's Gold Dust finishing 2nd overall in the 2017 Nationals - powered by North Sails
Keep in touch everyone and best wishes from us here at North Sails Ireland.
