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We've been busy lately adding Milanes Foils to our website for many classes.  So if your looking for a new Rudder, Centreboard for your Boat, Milanes foils are the way to go!.  Heres a bit about Milanes

Milanes Foils have been manufacturing centreboards and rudders since 1975, helping dinghy sailors achieve top results in Olympic and National classes. Our foils have, for example, won Olympic silver (Finn and FD) and Gold (Finn) as well as World Championships in 420, 505, Contender, OK, Enterprise, Cadet, to name but a few, classes. We have also achieved National Championship wins in over 20 other well known Dinghy and keelboat Classes. We also manufacture and supply rudderstocks in various materials, including wood, foam, glass, and carbon.We have templates for most of the National and International classes and within specific rule limitations we endeavour to produce the most efficient shaped foils taking into account minimum drag and maximum lift characteristics.

View our Range of Milanes foils

Our quick release buckle takes the hassle out of packing up your boat - simply push the specially moulded connector fittings together to ‘click’ home. Easy!

Now for sale in 20mm or 25mm via our website www.speedsails.co.uk

A light northerly shifting breeze made for tough sailing for handicap racing sponsored by Speed Sails, 2 races were sailed with the fleet split into Fast and Slow fleet starts.

In the first race the 3 Merlin Rockets and the Phantom of Mike Tustin romped ahead leaving the Slow Fleet trailing far behind as the breeze died. Matt Biggs crewed by Ben Hollis in his Merlin established a 3 minute lead over Andy and Richie Adams whilst Richard Dee and Chris duelled with Mike Tustin in his Phantom. The Albacore of Neville Herbert finished 4th on handicap.

The slow fleet had a closer tussle between the Bartley Streaker of Debbie Degge leading the Solo’s of Brian Stammers and Graham Robinson over the line.

The second race started in a reasonable breeze and Matt Biggs tussled with Andy enjoyed another Merlin benefit with a very close finish and Richard Dee followed in 3rd place. The Albacore again came through on handicap in 4th place.

The slow fleet slide further back as the wind faded after Fast Fleet leaders finished their race. This led to more mixed results in the fleet with Solo’s leading the way on handicap with Dave Brand winning race 2 from Trevor Thomas but Debbie Degge scraped in to win overall from Brian Stammers and Graham Robinson.

Mike Biggs won overall with 2 first places after a very good display of light weather sailing.

The Junior Fleet was led home by Crispin Beaumont and Nick Wilson sailing a Feva whose race included 2 Feva’s starting on an advantageous port tack on a busy start line in the first race and nearly succeeding in clearing the fleet in a slower boat. Crispin and Nick finished a creditable 8th overall.

Overall Results:

Slow Fleet

Fast Fleet

Speed Lark sails have been consistently at the front of the fleet winning Nationals races and open meetings. The biggest event in recent years, the 2007 Inlands at Grafham, saw over 70 boats competing and 3 of the top 6 using Speed Sails. 

The Speed Lark sails have seen extensive development work in recent times and this has paid off with excellent performances at all levels. The sails have seen further improvements with the development of a radial main sail head for a smoother shape and greater shape holding ability. The latest rig settings for the Speed Lark sails can now be found in our updated tuning guide helping you get the most from your sails.

SAILS:            

Mainsail: 180 HTP+ Dimension Polyant One Design; Comes complete with battens, sailbags, sail numbers. 

Jib: 180 HTP+ Dimension Polyant One Design; Comes complete with stuff luff & sail bag. 

Spinnaker: AirX 700; Seams are glued & sewn for to provide extra durability for chute systems. Sail comes complete with sail bag & sail numbers. 

Lark tuning guide

SPARS: 

Our workshop has a large stock of Proctor C masts ready to dispatch either as bare sections or fully rigged. We also keep a large supply of booms & spinnaker poles and manufacture replacement shrouds, halyards, cascade kickers etc. for delivery by our mail order department. 

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For more Sails Visit us online at www.speedsails.co.uk

Speed Sails have put together this tuning guide to help you set your boat up close to its ideal settings. These settings should be regarded as a starting point for fine tuning as individual boats and crews may need to alter them slightly for best performance. When you have your boat set up, remember to mark everything so that the settings can be reproduced quickly.

Speedsails Lark Tuning Guide

The 2nd hand boat list on the www.speedsails.co.uk for sale has now been updated including 2 week old GP14s, a Championship winning Fireball and a brand new Fireball. There should also be a new Lark and the Nationals winning Scorpion available soon so don't forget to check for updates over the coming weeks!

Already the traditional summer holiday championship season is fast approaching so if you are looking for that extra bit of performance on the race course time is running out to get a new set of championship winning sails before the big event for your class. To help make sure you get the new sails you need in time we are also now offering FREE delivery to various championships around the country.

Not sure on whether to trust brand new sails? At Speed Sails we appreciate that some people like to test new sails a couple of times before a major event and, with this in mind, may also be able to arrange delivery to a local open meeting free of charge. However, we also have such confidence that all our new sails will be on the pace straight away that Speed Sails staff used previously unused sails at 3 National Championships and 1 World Championship in 2007. Overall victory in all 4 events emphasises the performance advantage available and the lack of ‘wearing in’ time required to get the boat up to speed. In fact, 2 of the Nationals titles were achieved in Speed Sails boats which had never been on the water before either!

All of our sails come ready to sail with the numbers, battens, tell tales and sail licences all attached wherever appropriate. Also included is a tuning guide to make sure your rig is set up to the optimum settings and for many classes we can even arrange to have the sails measured before they leave the loft meaning all you have to do is pull the sails up and go!

Standard delivery time on new sails is currently 3 weeks but with staff attending events throughout the summer this can grow very quickly; make sure you don’t leave it too late to get your order in by contacting us today on 0845 50 40 600. Alternatively, sails for all our major classes can be purchased online at www.speedsails.co.uk. If you need your sails by a particular date please remember to let us know either directly or by filling in the special instructions box during the online check out process. For those sailors not planning on attending open meeting events this summer all of our sails can be delivered to your door using a well known next day courier service.

Events with free delivery to the Championships available:

Enterprise Nationals –                Tenby                           August 9th – August 15th 
Fireball Europeans –                  Belgium                        July 5th – July 11th
Fireball Nationals –                    Mounts Bay                  August 16th – August 22nd
GP14 Worlds –                          Abersoch                     August 2nd – August 8th
Lark Nationals –                        Bridlington                    July 26th – August 1st
Merlin Rocket Salcombe Week –   Salcombe                     July 5th – July 11th
Merlin Rocket Nationals –            Looe                            August 16th – August 22nd
Scorpion Nationals –                  Abersoch                     July 26th – August 1st
Solo Nationals –                        Torbay                         July 19th – July 25th 

Delivery to an open meeting will depend on which events staff are attending, please contact us to see if we can arrange free delivery to your next event.