Team Sanya checks her VOR inventory into Doyle Sails in Auckland

Doyle’s Chris McMaster says that Team Sanya will be getting some new sails including a fractional Code Zero for the next leg. ‘We only started discussing the sail four days ago with Mike Sanderson, and now it is almost finished.’

The reason for rapid turnaround in the manufacture of the sail is explained next door where there is a full length panel lamination plant where the cloth used in the new sail can be laid up in one piece, before being finished.

‘Mike found that he was using the fractional Code Zero upwind more than he had initially thought, so the new sail has been designed around that use, and is a little flatter and more of an upwind sail,’ explains McMaster.