Andrew Wood

We’re looking for a new Sailmaker’s Apprentice

by | 16/06/2014 | Loft News | 3 Comments

Solo Sails are currently looking for two enthusiastic apprentices to join our small team of friendly sail makers. Sailmaking is a rewarding, practical job and is especially interesting for anyone who is already involved in the sport of sailing. It's particularly...
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Amazing Aerial Video Footage of Lizzy and Nikki’s Mini’s under sail

by | 20/05/2014 | Loft News, Racing News | 0 Comments

Mini 6.50 from LPB Aerial Imagery on Vimeo. A group of Mini 6.50 race from Hamble to La Trinite. Nikki Curwen and Lizzy Foreman sail solo. This is fantastic aerial video footage of Lizzy and Nikki sailing single-handed in the 2014 Solent 650 race.
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Lizzy Foreman Sets off on her 1000 mile non-stop Solo Qualifier …

by | 13/05/2014 | Racing News | 2 Comments

'Bon Voyage' to Lizzy Foreman who has just set off on her thousand mile, single-handed qualifying passage for the 2015 Mini Transat. For safety reasons, every mini sailor who wants to enter the main Mini Transat Event (a single-handed race across the Atlantic), must...
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Great first race results for Toby on his Solo Sails powered RG650

by | 06/05/2014 | Racing News | 0 Comments

Big congratulations to Toby Isles on finishing 2nd in his first race of the season aboard his new fully Solo Sails powered RG650 Mini Transat!! The 2014 'Solent 650' was a small fleet with three British entrants, one German and one French and was a great race to watch...
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Lizzy Foreman’s Solo Sails are now branded and looking great!

by | 05/05/2014 | Loft News, Racing News | 0 Comments

Lizzy Foreman's new Mini Transat campaign just upped a gear last week as she officially launched her Mini campaign on the Isle of Wight with fully branded Solo Sails and hull by Grapefruit Graphics under the name of Hudson Wight, her tittle Sponsor. After the official...
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Solo Sails Sponsor Lizzy Foreman’s Mini Transat Campaign

by | 21/04/2014 | Loft News, Racing News | 0 Comments

We're very proud to be helping young British solo sailor Lizzy Foreman power her solo racing project by providing sails during her two year Mini Transat campaign. In partnership with Dimension Polyant who will be supplying the highest quality performance sailcloth,...
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New Solent SKZ Sewing machine installed

by | 21/04/2014 | Loft News | 0 Comments

We are very excited indeed to have received and installed our new Solent Offshore SKZ sewing machine. The addition of this medium to heavy weight 'top of the range' sewing machine to our quiver of machines, enables us to take on another sailmaker, as well as speed up...
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Top Down Spinnaker Furlers

by | 26/02/2014 | Cruising News, Loft News, Racing News | 0 Comments

We are now supplying the full  range of Karver KSF Top Down Spinnaker furlers which make the deployment and retrieval of spinnakers, code zeros and cruising chutes pretty much child's play. Unlike traditional code sail furling, the spinnaker furler starts from the top...
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Twisted Flow CFD simulator software

by | 11/02/2014 | Loft News, Racing News | 0 Comments

We are very excited to announce the latest development of our In-House CFD R&D program in collaboration with ODS Engineering http://www.ods-engineering.com/ enabling us to recreate fully modifiable 'Twisted Flow' studies in our CFD analysis software. Wind tunnels...
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Spinnakers Are The Work Of The Devil!

by | 24/01/2014 | Loft News | 3 Comments

When I grew up in Penzance, my father used to get his sails made and repaired by the local sailmaker Albert Willoughby, a traditional sailmaker, who’s ‘lost in time’ loft was hidden away down a dark secret alley in the backstreet’s of Penzance. As a small boy, Albert...
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Dimension Polyant Introduces UVi Sailcloth Technology

by | 23/01/2014 | Loft News | 0 Comments

DIMENSION-POLYANT® has developed a new UVi® technology to improve the UV stability of their premium woven polyester sailcloth styles by up to 15%! Application of the UVi® technology in the finishing process increases the resistance to degradation from UV light by 10 –...
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