Welcome to Watson Sails, manufacturers of high performance sails for racing and cruising. Watson sails is managed and owned by Philip Watson who has over thirty five 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 nearly all these award-winning, German designed and manufactured craft.
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Recent Announcements
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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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First 31.7 Nationals (at last!)
After several years where boats with Watson sails won most of the races, but failed narrowly to win the main event, we are delighted to (at last) be able to report that the O'Gallagher brothers won the 2009 Nationals on "Flying machine" with a full suit of Watson sails.
Posted Oct 2, 2009 1:11 AM by Philip Watson
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New Service for Yachtsmen
Are you in the frame and winning Races? Are you safe and comfortable when Cruising? Is buying a new yacht the only answer? If the answer to any of these questions is NO – READ ON...
PHILIP WATSON is Ireland's most experienced sailmaker, and has now launched a new boat optimization service. A lifetime in performance sailing has made him an acknowledged expert in squeezing that bit of extra performance out of every boat he steps on. This expertise is available to you if you need to get your boat sailing more quickly and more efficiently, whether on the race course, or cruising to a distant destination. A lot of the fun in racing is winning, and making a fast ...
Posted Oct 1, 2009 8:47 AM by Philip Watson
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