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Time was when John Clauser bought a bodacious old Farr boat to race on San Francisco Bay. And that bodacious old boat came with some very old sails. So John began adding some bodacious new Pineapple Sails that sped up that bodacious old boat.
Time was when John wed the bodacious Bobbi Tosse and the wedding present from crew and friends. loads of friends, was a bodacious new Pineapple #3 jib.
With a bodacious Pineapple main, #3 jib and spinnaker, all they lacked was a truly fast #1 genoa. So late this past summer, John and Bobbi ordered a new Pineapple #1.
Their bodacious boat, Bodacious, finished the 1999 season second in her division in HDA and went on to win the Yankee Cup, the champion of champions race.
The following week, Bobbi drove Bodacious to victory in Berkeley Yacht Club’s Women’s Skipper’s Race.
And they couldn’t have done it without a loyal crew, double chocolate cookies and that bodacious new #1.
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Colin Moore’s Wylie Wabbit is Kwazy. And Colin is crazy about racing his Wabbit.
In last month's Jazz Cup, Kwazy scored big. Starting in the main Bay at the starting line set by South Beach Yacht Club and finishing just off Benicia Yacht Club, Kwazy beat 78 competitors over 24 ½ miles of fluky winds and adverse current.
Wabbit sails are the key to boat speed on such a sensitive, adjustable rig. And Kwazy's Pineapple main adjusts from full for power to flat to depower; her Pineapple spinnaker is designed to sail high on a reach, yet stand wide for a run.
At Pineapple Sails we take the time to make the sails that match your boat and your sailing needs. On that note, we'd like to suggest you give us a call to talk about the sails to jazz up your boat: Pineapple Sails.
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Saga is the 65-foot steel hulled, teak decked home of the Stone family, Mat, Molly, and young Hayden, Caleb and Adelaide. Saga is also a classroom, where history, culture, social skills and communication, a bit of mandatory math – and sailing – are taught daily. The lessons come from the journey. And the plan is to enjoy every passage and every destination.
The Stones left California last October, heading south for Mexico and Central America. Mat voiced their delight in reaching along at 9 knots toward Costa Rica. Next year: the South Pacific.
The Spectra main we built Saga is unusual. Full hoist it is too wide to clear the backstay. Reaching and running, the sail is large and powerful. On those rare occasions when the boat must tack to weather, the sail is simply reefed and becomes the size of the original main. Tom Wylie, the boat’s designer, describes it as our “passage making mainsail.”
We look forward to the “saga” of Saga. And expect all her Pineapple Sails to cover miles of ocean and years of service.
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In a tale from Greek mythology, the gods allow Orpheus to rescue his love Eurydice from the underworld, provided he leads her out without looking back. He fails -- and the message is clear: don’t look back.
Ken and Robin O’Donnell plan to go cruising some day; to head out the Gate and not look back. In the meantime they are racing their Catalina 30, Eurydice, placing first in the spring half of ODCA’s 1999 season.
It’s no myth that racing has sharpened their sailing skills. And it’s no myth that they race to win. So when the need for speed became clear, they turned to Pineapple Sails for the fastest sails and unequaled support.
Call us at Pineapple Sails for sails and service that a are truly legendary.
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Michael Katz has a new love. Ahava, which means love, is Michael’s new WylieCat 48. And the catboat in its elegant simplicity is easy to love.
Ahava’s 70-foot unstayed carbon mast is truly elegant. But for the sailmaker, the design of the sail is anything but simple. It requires an acute understanding of the catboat’s special characteristics and a sensitivity to the behavior of a free-standing mast. This is Michael’s third catboat and each has been powered by a carefully designed and meticulously crafted Pineapple sail.
Pineapple Sails’ specialty is special sails for special boats.
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Mudshark, Dave Fullerton and Beki Thomson’s Express 37, placed first in the “prestigious” Enchilada Division of Latitude 38’s Baha Haha down to Cabo San Lucas.
Dave began racing on a 24’ Islander Bahama. When the crew complained that the sails behaved like paper towels -- soft and absorbent -- a 20-year association with Pineapple Sails began. He then raced for years on his Ranger 26 and ultimately he and Beki decided on an Express 37. They wanted to go cruising. Competitively, of course.
They added “the world’s most perfect” main, two jibs, and, to facilitate use of the twelve-year-old Pineapple spinnaker that came with the boat, a spinnaker sock, all from Pineapple Sails. According to Dave, the sock is as valuable as their autopilot! Because it is reliable and well-engineered, they soon learned they could do all their downwind sailing with their spinnaker. Their sets, gybes and dowses would always be under control. No more motoring for them!
Mudshark’s performance is a testimony to Pineapple Sails’ commitment to quality and service – and our commitment to long term customer relationships.
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Thirty-one (that’s 31!) Express 27’s entered this season’s Berkeley-Metropolitan midwinters. And Buzz Blackett on New Wave out did his thirty competitors to win the four race series.
With several well sailed Expresses vying for first place honors, winning required exceptional boat speed. New Wave is powered by Pineapple Sails and has that exceptional speed. And when the smoke cleared after the finish of the last race, Buzz had won the series.
Order some Pineapple Sails for your boat and make some waves of your own! Race or cruise, your improved performance is our primary concern.
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Ever since Rich Holden bought his new asymmetric spinnaker and furling jib, he’s been catching a lot of fish.
Last spring, he towed Seabird his F-27 folding trimaran to sail in Pensa-cola, Florida, then to Miami to sail on to the Bahamas and to fish. And he caught a lot of fish. As it turns out, you just have to be going about 6 knots to catch fish. And with the new spinnaker, that only required about 4 knots of wind!
In August, Rich hauled the boat to Whiskeytown Lake near Redding, California, then up to the San Juans and Canada to relax and to sail -- impossible in the light air without the new spinnaker.
And then in October, Rich joined in the Latitude 38’s Baja HaHa Rally to Cabo San Lucas, finishing first in his division, all the while catching more fish.
“You haven’t lived until you’ve caught a 125-pound marlin with the spinnaker up.”
So it’s not the lure. It’s not the bait. It’s Pineapple Sails. Just ask Rich!
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Pearson Ariel #191 was already racing when Pineapple Sails began making sails twenty-five years ago. But somewhere between the early seventies and the mid eighties, the boat stopped racing. And then she stopped sailing. Three years ago, Hugh Davis bought the boat at a lien sale and after months of scraping crusty old bottom paint, and replacing standing and running rigging, and put-ting together a determined crew, she was back in racing shape.
But she still wasn't winning races.
So at the end of the 1997 season, Hugh ordered a new set of Pineapple class sails. Unveiled only at the first race of the 1998 season (we were sworn to months of secrecy), the speed of the new sails surprised crew and competition alike. And Parranda finished the season in first place.
Still in the lead in a midseason Berkeley Circle race, after Hugh had completed a 720 to avoid a protest, one skipper hailed: "Do another 720, so you are still within sight when you finish!"
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Whether it's highly competitive one-design racing or crossing the Bay with his family, Steve Wonner enjoys sailing - pure and simple. And Uno, his cat rigged Wyliecat 30, is just that.
In last month's NOOD regatta, with only one sail to trim, and none to change, Steve and his crew focused on boat speed and the tactics. And their expert trim and tactics paid off. Uno became the first Wyliecat class champion, in tight competition in the newly formed seven-boat fleet.
Cat boats rigs and unstayed masts make for a simple sailplan. But while the rig is simple, the mainsail is not. The freestanding carbon mast tapers toward the top, bending and spilling the wind as the breeze builds, effec-tively depowering the sail -- a sail shaped to respond to those changes in the mast.
Uno's Pineapple Sail is just one more example of our commitment to sail development: designing and building the right sail for the job. The simple cat rig dictates a complex mainsail.
And as Steve points out, "with only one sail, it had better be the right one!"
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