Pinnell & Bax | Blog

03/06/2015
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The Best Youth Events?

The P&B kids, those are the children of Dave Wade and Tom Stewart and their wives, have just enjoyed another superb Junior Bourne End Week leading many of us here to wonder which the best Junior sailing events are. The P&B kids, those are the children of Dave Wade and Tom Stewart and their wives, have just enjoyed another superb Junior Bourne End Week leading many of us here to wonder which the best Junior sailing events are. Junior Bourne End Week, is actually only three days long but is packed with... Read More

28/01/2015
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International, national and local success

What a wonderful couple of weeks it has been both here in the UK and Internationally and with success a plenty, where to start is the question?Sailing achievement of the year is a possibility; Mike Holt, P&B powered 505 World Champion, winner of this Yachts and Yachting award who then promptly followed this award with a podium placing at the 2015 Bloody Mary. More on this later. What a wonderful couple of weeks it has been both here in the UK and Internationally and with success aplenty, where to start... Read More

08/01/2015
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New year, new boats and new opportunities at P&B.

After a hugely successful 2014 both on and off the water Pinnell & Bax enter 2015 full of the joys of spring despite the dark days of winter.The brighter climes of Australia is where we start this week, with the teams warming up for the I14 World championships. 69 teams have entered and P&B’s charge is being headed up by Ben Mcgrane and James (Uzi) Hughes. At the time of writing a lack of breeze has led to a slow start with no significant racing as of yet. Remaining on the sunny isle,... Read More

04/12/2014
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The SK2 arrives and the 2015 Winner team is announced.

Introducing the SK2Swing keel sailing comes to the global sports boat market. In partnership with Sk2, Pinnell & Bax are proud to announce the SK2.Following on from a number of months testing and developing the rig and layout in partnership with Sk2 and Selden, the team at P&B have finalised the sails and Ovington boats are busy building the hulls.This 5.6 metre sports boat is launched from a trolley just like a dinghy and gives sailing for either 2 or 3 crew. The SK2 features a swing keel (or canting keel)... Read More

P&B supporting sailors and the new generation.

As we roll towards the end of another year it is easy to see the years as separate entities, however at P&B we aim to see the longer term picture.Although we started out as a UK based sail maker we have refined to become, we believe, the country’s only one stop shop for the dinghy market, providing many classes and sailors with support here in the Uk and around the globe. As we roll towards the end of another year it is easy to see the years as separate entities,... Read More

19 is the number…

As the ups and downs of the championship season draws to a close only a few events are outstanding and 19 is the number for P&B as it stands. 19 national, european and world championships titles that have been won this season using P&B sails with the last couple of weeks seeing some significant additions to the figure as we push ever closer to 20. . These aforementioned significant additions come in the form of world championship success in the high powered and monster class of the 505 and were... Read More

Junior sailors take their turn in the spot light

We start today with the wonderfully named Little Britches showing the way, claiming the title of Uk Mirror national champion. Congratulations go to Emma Grayson and Gemma Francis Burnett with four race wins out of nine races sailed they showed great speed after a slightly slow start to the week. This P&B race team pairing were pursued by David and Ed Coady again using a full set of P&B sails claiming the second overall. So a successful week in the Uk Mirror championships hopefully leading onto a successful Europeans… Latest... Read More

P&B across the Globe…

International,national and in-house P&B have it covered. We start this week on the international scene and with some of the more ‘usual’ names missing from the Fireball world championships, including the official P&B Zhik Race team the question has been posed as too how fast actually are the P&B sails? The current state of affairs in Thailand as the pre-worlds nears its end we think gives the answer. From across the globe, P&B sails are proving successful. Current results show a clean sweep of the podium a (1st 2nd and... Read More

As one season ends another starts…

The season starts here… Apparently! A quick but informative blog this week as we are all hands on deck here with final preparations for the Dinghy show at Ally’s place (or Palace!) this weekend. According to some this is the official start to the season however for us here at P&B I think the phrase is:- “As one season ends another starts” And as cold starts and dark mornings are (apparently) no longer in vogue it must mean it’s also time to conclude/bid farewell to the premier winter season handicap... Read More

Ally pally treasure awaits…

We start this week’s blog by making no apologies for borrowing someone else words… There are just three more days until the start of the RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show 2014, when Alexandra Palace, London becomes the centre of all things dinghy sailing. And it comes as no surprise that P&B will be there joining in this festival of all things dinghy sailing after all the dinghy show is the only show dedicated to all things dinghy in the world. However before we move onto this we would like to send... Read More