Hood Sails Australia chosen for Round Australia durability

7:53 PM Sun 10 Apr 2011 GMT

'Rolex Sydney to Hobart 2010 start - Jim Cooney&rsquo;&rsquo;s Brindabella' Andrea Francolini &copy

Hood Sails Australia's Ian Broad received a call just seven days prior to the 2010 Sydney to Hobart start from CYCA immediate past Commodore Mat Allen. Mat and his crew had been on their pre-Hobart shakedown sail just a few hours before and had discovered the moulded composite Hobart mainsail on his IRC optimised Volvo 70 Ichi Ban had begun to delaminate. You can imagine the conversation, we will leave the preamble to you, but the nitty gritty was ...'Need a mainsail, need it bulletproof, need it by Thursday night.' Broad (Broadie) explains. 'We undertook to deliver a Hood Dimension ...

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by Brendan Maxwell