Welcome to Watson Sails, manufacturers of high performance sails for racing and cruising. Watson sails is managed and owned by Philip Watson who has forty years experience in sail making and repairing. Philip is only too happy to advise you on your sail selection for cruising or high performance racing.
Watson Yachting are also Irish agents for Hanse Yachts and Philip has sailed and sold many of these award-winning, German designed and manufactured craft.
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Recent Announcements
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TWIN JIBS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 2011
Transcript of
e-mail received immediately after 2011 ARC from Norwegian sailor Ingvar Solem
in his Hanse 370 Fri Flyt
"Hello Philip!
We had a fantastic
crossing and I want to thank you for convincing me to buy those Yankees! Except for the first night, and the last
three days, we had perfect downwind sailing, and we beat a lot of larger
boats in to St. Lucia.
Today a Hanse 370 owner
from Sydney came to my boat. He was a crew member on a Beneteau 46’ and was
really impressed by the speed of my boat (we parked them completely!).
The boat was overloaded
so it was pretty tricky to get a real surf, but we managed to reach ...
Posted Dec 13, 2011, 8:49 AM by Philip Watson
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Directions to our Loft
We've just learned that an enterprising firm in Crosshaven (Loc8ioncode) has "invented" a type of postcode similar to the UK. If you click on ours, it will show you the exact location of our loft entrance. So far they have done a deal with Garmin to allow you use their code to guide you directly to an address, and more such deals (such as Apple i-phone) are apparently in the pipeline.We wish them every success.Try this link www.loc8code.com/NL9-06-V03
Posted Aug 12, 2010, 4:00 AM by Philip Watson
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Asymmetrics/Cruising Chutes
Our running asymmetric spinnakers are an excellent example of how knowledge, acquired in serious one-design racing, filters down to the cruising community. Having had a 1720 fleet on our doorstep in Howth for over ten years, a fleet that only raced windward-leeward courses, we just had to find a way to make our spinnakers fly lower than the opposition. We'd be the first to admit that our earliest designs were little better than "coloured genoas", collapsing too early when you tried to sail really low. But when we "cracked it" (in 1996) we came up with a design that still outperforms any other we've seen, or tested against since. This running mould is winning races on ...
Posted Dec 16, 2009, 4:57 AM by Philip Watson
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SKYPE
If anybody out there (and especially those a long way away) want to call me on Skype, I'm on line nearly all day and many evenings after dark, so try making contact with "WattyYachtie1"
Posted Nov 30, 2009, 7:52 AM by Philip Watson
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Posted Jan 18, 2012, 2:36 AM by Philip Watson
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