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Hyde Sails 2024 - One Design

Hyde Sails' new B1 designs win F15 UK Inland Championship 2025

by Hyde Sails 9 Apr 08:00 BST 5-6 April 2025
Hyde winning at the Flying Fifteen Southern Area Championship 2024 © Phil Jackson / Digital Sailing

A close fought battle with Hyde's One Design Sales Manager, Ben McGrane, winning crewed by Scott Dawson. Conditions were varied for the weekend with strong winds on Saturday and a more moderate Sunday. Another great result for the new B1 designs!

Congratulations also go to Bill Chard and Josh Preater who finished 5th overall with a full suit of Hyde sails.

Our design team ran a focused development on the F15 sails over the winter of 2023, the objectives were to improve the downwind performance with a more user friendly full radial spinnaker design and a mainsail which maintains its depth in the top half of the sail when sailing off the wind. We also wanted a more user friendly upwind package that performed more consistently across the wind range. Since their launch the B1 designs have achieved great results in a variety of conditions.

Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen mailsail - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen mailsail - photo © Hyde Sails

  • 1st UK Inlands Championships 2025
  • 1st UK Southern Championships 2024 (highest attended event of 2024 season with 52 teams racing)
  • 2nd UK Inland Championship 2024
  • 3rd UK National Championship 2024

"Following our win at the 2023 National Championships and Richard Lovering's 3rd at the 2022 European Championships we had identified key areas in which we felt the sails could be improved, much of this has been refining the designs to create new B1 suit from which it is easier to extract the maximum performance across the full wind range. To our customers we now recommend the B1 mainsail and jib for teams above 160kg, below this weight the B1 main can be combined with our flat jib design to great effect." Ben McGrane, Hyde One Design Manager

Alongside our sail development we have also refined our covers and continue to work with suppliers to ensure we use the highest quality and best suited material in each application. F15 sails, covers and accessories can be ordered online here.

Want more information on any of our one-design products, contact us at

Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen upwind trim - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen upwind trim - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen downwind trim - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen downwind trim - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen top cover - photo © Hyde Sails
Hyde Sails Flying Fifteen top cover - photo © Hyde Sails

Overall Results:

PosSail NoHelmCrewClubR1R2R3R4R5R6Pts
1st4002Ben McGraneScott DawsonNetley SC1‑431229
2nd3760Jeremy DavyMartin HuettDraycote Water321‑111310
3rd4142Ian PinnellIan CadwaladerNSC/HISC412‑63111
4th4135Dave LucasHarry LucasGWSC23434‑616
5th4069Bill ChardJosh PreaterChew Valley SC5575‑151032
6th4065David MckeeMal HartlandDovestone SC86928‑1233
7th4114Richard WhitworthTrefor JonesPYC712(DNC)45836
8th4092Niall O BrienRonan O BriainFFC‑1578861342
9th4130Adrian TattersallJohn MathieParkstone10156‑1610546
10th4091Jeremy ArnoldRichard HopeRYA‑18912139447
11th3808Steve CooperGreg IrishDraycote Water1281377(DNC)47
12th4094John HansonHelen SeldenRya91411913‑1556
13th4113Simon KnellerAshley PainterGWSC131110‑14111156
14th3903Gary StuartJohn WaylingNorthampton111014‑19121461
15th4044Simon PattersonKevin HolidayDraycote water161316‑2018770
16th4086Nigel Davenport Draycote1716151016(BFD)74
17th4124Andy TunnicliffeIan HopwoodBassenthwaite sailing club6(DNC)512BFDDNC75
18th4100John TuckwellGraham TuckwellNorthampton sailing Club1417171517(BFD)80
19th4097Mathew ThompsonRaymond FlanaganDWSC1919(DNC)18141686
20th3751Peter WarneGraham WilsonNorthampton2018182120(DNC)97
21st4080Pete SlaterTim CaseDraycote Water(DNC)DNCDNC171917105
22nd4041Simon CooperAlastair CooperBewl Valley Sailing Club22202022(RET)DNC110
23rd3918Paul BusbyNeil BarfordNorthampton/HISC(DNC)OCSDNCOCSBFD9113
24th3862Pete BadhamPeter WhiteDraycote Water21(DNC)19DNCDNCDNC118
25th4005Andy McKeeRich JonesDovestone SC(DNC)DNCDNCDNCDNCDNC130

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