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A NEWSLETTER FROM HAARSTICK SAILMAKERS

1461 Hudson Ave. Rochester , NY 14621

(800) 342-5033              (585) 342-5200

email:  info@haarsticksailmakers.com 

Web site:  www.haarsticksailmakers.com  

   

September 2, 2005

 

In this issue:

 

-  Fall Discounts Start Now – see terms of discounts

 

-  Testimonials - We’ll let our customers speak for us in this newsletter

 

-  More Great Results

 

 

DISCOUNTS ARE HERE, UP TO 23% OFF

 

FALL DISCOUNT PROGRAM: RACING, CRUISING, FREEDOM SAILS: 9/6/2005 - 11/15/2005:

 

15% DISCOUNT FOR ONE SAIL, 20% FOR TWO OR MORE SAILS
ADDITIONAL 3% DISCOUNT FOR CARBON RACING SAILS

REDUCE DISCOUNT  2% WHEN USING A CREDIT CARD FOR PAYMENT

DEPOSIT OF 50% AND BALANCE DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF INVOICE (FREE STORAGE)

ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BUILD THE SAIL MUST BE AVAILABLE TO US BY 11/15/2005

FREIGHT AND NYS TAX EXTRA WHERE APPLICABLE

 

 

FALL DISCOUNT PROGRAM: ONE DESIGN SAILS: 9/6/2005 - 11/15/2005

 

10% DISCOUNT FOR ONE SAIL, 15% FOR TWO OR MORE SAILS

REDUCE DISCOUNT  2% WHEN USING A CREDIT CARD FOR PAYMENT

DEPOSIT OF 50% AND BALANCE DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF INVOICE (FREE STORAGE)

ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BUILD THE SAIL MUST BE AVAILABLE TO US BY 11/15/2005

FREIGHT AND NYS TAX EXTRA WHERE APPLICABLE

 

 

FALL DISCOUNT PROGRAM: REPAIRS: 10/1/2005 - 11/15/2005

 

15% DISCOUNT ON ALL REPAIRS RECEIVED IN OUR LOFT BETWEEN THE ABOVE DATES

BALANCE DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF INVOICE (FREE STORAGE)

ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED TO REPAIR THE SAIL MUST BE AVAILABLE TO US BY 11/15/2005

FREIGHT AND NYS TAX EXTRA WHERE APPLICABLE

 

 

Recent Testimonials

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BENETEAU 40.7   

 

This past weekend the One Design Open was held at RYC which included the Northeast Championship for Beneteau 40.7's. Our 40.7 fleet has been very close all season long and it's made up of seven very strong competitors.

It was a picture perfect weekend of sailing with steady winds from 12-19 knots and very close racing. After 3 races on Saturday our team finished 3-1-1 and had a slim lead in the series. With the pressure on for Sunday we managed a 2 and 1 which resulted in a very gratifying win for the regatta! Again, we found our upwind speed and pointing ability to be excellent and our team was totally "in the zone." The tactics and crew work were superb!

The Northeast Champs from the Out Of The Blue team (in alphabetical order):

PICTURE OF CREW
Eric Bettinger
JGD
Dean Granchelli
Brian Graves
Scott Ikle
Wally Kowalik
Eric Martin
Paul Maxwell
Cory Murfin
John Murfin
John Muscarella
Steve Pulver

These were the guys on the boat but everyone from the "extended" crew deserves credit for this. We have continued to improve as a team because the amount of time we've been able to spend on the water and the quality of the competition we sail against. It has been a cumulative effect that everyone on the OOTB team should feel proud of.


John G. Doyle, Jr.
Doyle Security Systems, Inc.
Rochester , New York
www.GoDoyle.com

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C&C 115

 

Customers comments on his new C&C 115 suit of sails delivered two weeks ago to Detroit

  

“Steve,

trial one today. we went upwind  tws=5.5  boatspeed=6.5. main, 108.
compliments from all aboard. ...  

one word: sweet...”

 

Steve Haarstick will be going to Detroit to check out the full inventory and will have a report for us in the next Loft Lines.

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8-METER WORLDS:   

Kiki Voss Werner, finishing 4th in a 15 boat fleet at the 8 World’s against two brand new boats from Europe, said after the regatta: PICTURE OF GOLDEN FEATHER

 

“Steve:
I think the best testimony supporting the durability of Haarstick sails is Golden Feather's performance at the 8metre worlds!!  Our newest sails were nine years old.  We had several chuckles about the "Computer Cut"  label  - (computers were new then I guess).  

Thanks so much for your help and the advice you gave to Kirk Reynolds.   Hope to see you soon.  

Kiki”

 

Editors footnote: ”By the way (Kiki), we started computer cutting sails in 1973! That's right, 32 years ago, I setup a company in Annapolis to cut Laser sails for World wide distribution to finishing sailmakers. We started cutting offshore spinnakers the next spring in 1974, after setting up a CAD program to nest and tool path the panels. We brought the machine to Rochester in 1985, and developed a CAD program to cut all our upwind sails. By 1987, we were no longer cutting any sails by hand, all were machine cut. If you ever have some time, come on down to the loft and I'll show you our machine- 32 years old and still chugging along. I'll even buy you lunch!!!”

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 C&C 35-3  

                                                                                                                               

“Tony, The results have been finalized. Restless won her Division and corrected to First in the Double Handed Fleet. The crew was Matt Richter and myself.

Our sail inventory is all Haarstick.  The mainsail that you worked on for me was the first sail I replaced on the boat in 1997 or 98. I wish I had taken a picture of it  when it was up. It still has a nice shape. The spinnaker is our 1/2 oz which was probably new in 2001 or 2002. The two pictures below were taken just after the start. The pole looks a little funky but we accelerated away from the fleet anyways.

Thanks,
Joe” 

 Joe Rosenfeld                                                                                                           ======================================================

C&C 29-1

 

“Steve,
I thought you might like an update on the two sails I
purchased in the Spring of 2004. They were a Carbon,
153%, Lt/AP,#1 Genoa and a 180%,.75 cloth, triradial
spinnaker. Whenever we used them in the 2004 season we
did well. This year the breeze has been light to
medium in just about all our races , consequently we
have used these sails in every race. They are both
still freakin' fast! I'm glad we don't have to race
against them.
Skip”

 

Skip Doyle

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Alberg 30

 

“Hi, guys,

Infinity (Alberg 30 #57) did it again, although this time the "chick" (me)
was driving.  Infinity found her get-up-and-go as usual, beating a
Catalina 27 scratch -- they rate 213 and we rate 225 :) -- in both 4-mile
races to take two bullets and win the PHRF C fleet in the Chesapeake Bay
Women's Challenge last weekend.

Cheers,
Melissa Currier”

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J/29

 

“Steve,

I can't thank you enough for getting that AirX Runner built so quickly
and at such a good price. Please pass the thanks along to your team for
their work. As far as the sail itself goes, just ask anyone in our
division at Saturdays Hospice Regatta about racing The Fish downwind. We
sometimes had some close racing on the first beat but always got to the
top mark first, then.GONE!  It is a well designed, and very powerful
kite. And I trust that cloth well into the twenties.
At the NA s we had two days big wind. Lots of planning and surfing. Lots
of multiple wave surfs, lots of speed. We passed a lot of boats down
wind over those couple days with my 5 year old AirX Runner!

I'm also happy with the Carbon AP 153% .  Concerned about the fullness
at first, I now feel it is the right sail for this pond. I notice the
acceleration out of tacks and the extra punch in the left-over slop and
I don't feel like we're paying for it with point.

So there you go, the first to bitch when things are less than perfect, I
want to make sure you know when I'm happy as well. I'm Happy!

Jay Tovey”

 

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F3 TALL RIG

 

To Steve Haarstick

“Steve

I want to thank you for having Eric Christensen sail with us over this past week-end at the Buffalo Yacht Club’s “Mayors Cup”. He really helped us out. We had a light weight crew for Saturday’s racing. This was help however, with winds in four to six knot range. We used our light #1 that is 6 years old. You really did a great job of recutting that Jib this past winter. That sail is really fast in that wind range. We used our 2 year runner down wind. That spinnaker never lets us down.

We were slow boat in the big boy’s fleet. I think that we kind of had them thinking. We were at both windward and leeward marks side by side. We had excellent boat speed upwind and down. Needless to say we won Saturday’s racing.

Sunday was little different. It was basically hard on the wind back to Buffalo from Point Abino with very little tacking and not much in the way of tactics. The big boys just used their water line to stretch out the distance. We still had fun. Its not often that we get to race in a nice breeze, 20-22 knots, and not big waves.

Thanks Bob Gradwell”

 

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A few more Regatta Results:

 

8 Meter Worlds  PICTURE OF GOLDEN FEATHER 

 – 4th overall – Kiki Voss Werner (testimonial above)

 

            Kiki decided to do this event one week before the first race. The boat was rigged as it was being towed across Lake Ontario , to Toronto . She got some crew together, threw their, 9-15 year old, sails in the boat, and took off.  She was racing against two brand new 8’s and was in third most of the regatta out of the 15 boats. She was actually the only boat to lead these two newer boats to one of the windward marks.  Congrats Kiki and crew.

 

Beneteau 40.7 North East Champion

 – 1st-- John Doyle and crew on “Out of the Blue”

 - 2nd- Harry Voss was 2nd on “Silver Bullet”

 

On 8/19-21 we had the OD Open at RYC and we had all 7 local 40.7's out there. There was the top North Pro, from Toronto on one of his 3 customers boats he has here and the top Doyle Pro, from Detroit , on another boat. I am happy to report that Haarstick boats finished 1st and 2nd overall with no Pro’s on board.  Haarstick boats finishing 1st, 4 of the 5 races. 

 

Rochester Race, Mid-Distance Regatta (35 boats)

 

            - 1st Place Overall – Dave Spang on his Custom 30

            - 2nd Place Overall – Harry Voss on his Beneteau 40.7

 

Lake Ontario 300

 

            -Restless (C&C 35-3) - 1st in Division and corrected to First in the Double Handed Fleet – Joe Rosenfeld

 

 

 

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