People

Chris McMaster

Managing Director
 
Chris comes from a family of sailors stretching back for nearly a century. Founded by Chris's grandfather in the 1920's, Boyd & McMaster Sailmakers was later taken over by his father and subsequently by Chris in 1985.

Chris, a qualified sailmaker and upholsterer, now focuses on managing an increasingly complex and technology driven business with satellite operations around New Zealand and Australia.

Chris has raced in most offshore events from NZ as well as many international regattas over the years. His wealth of worldwide cruising and racing experience has benefited many sailors over the years and Chris continues to offer the benefits of his knowledge to any customer - be it the youth dinghy sailor to the largest superyacht owner.

chris@doylesails.co.nz

Richard Bouzaid

Doyle Sails - Head of Design, Director Doyle Sails NZ 

The Bouzaid name is well known throughout the world's sailing fraternity. Richard's grandfather, Leo Bouzaid also started a sailmaking company in the early 1920's and his father Chris learned the trade and continued with the company merging with an international group in the 1970's.

Richard has been involved with America's Cup, Volvo 60 and Grand Prix campaigns as well as most One Design classes. As head designer at Doyle NZ and Doyle International, Richard's wealth of experience offers significant advantages for Doyle customers. As one of the world's leading sail designers, Richard's technical knowledge and his experience with winning designs extends through both the local keelboat and international racing arenas.

Richard also has thousands of miles of offshore cruising experience under his belt so is equally equipped to be able to help all sailors.

richard@doylesails.co.nz

Mike Sanderson

Director of Sales 

The name Mike Sanderson will be familiar to anyone with an interest in yacht racing. Mike is a two time Volvo Ocean Race winner, veteran of three America's Cup campaigns and was ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year in 2006. Mike also has extensive superyacht experience including taking the transatlantic monohull record on Mari Cha IV.

Mike brings with him to Doyle a wealth of experience having been involved in the technical side of sail programmes and as part of the design and build teams of both team ABN AMBRO boats as well as skippering ABN AMBRO ONE to one of the most convincing victories in the race's history.

As Director of Sales, Mike will be overseeing the sales teams in New Zealand and Australia and using his particular skills and experience to increase Doyle Sails NZ's profile in the Grand Prix sailboat market.

mikes@doylesails.co.nz

Phil Houghton

Local Sales, Asia Sales, Superyacht/Grand Prix worldwide Service 

Phil learned to sail as a boy in Nelson, coming to Auckland to do his apprenticeship in 1983. 

Phil has a huge amount of experience, sailing in both local and international regattas, including the Whitbread Round the World event as sailmaker for Yamaha.

Phil's vast knowledge of sail construction and sail shape makes Doyle NZ the leading choice for the local service of all classes and cruising yachts. Phil is one of the leading local personalities both in local club races and offshore events.

phizzle@doylesails.co.nz

Matt Bridge

Superyacht Sail Coordinator 

Matt started his professional sailing career as bosun on a 132' square rigged brigantine in Hong Kong at the tender age of 18. After this apprenticeship he progressed to more modern yachts, gradually working his way up to Captain with a MCA Class IV qualification. Matt sailed countless offshore miles on a variety of sailing vessels up to 34 metres before moving ashore, joining a rival sailmaking company and then moving on to join Doyle NZ as a superyacht specialist.

Matt's experience at sea gives him the background knowledge to talk with boat builders, spar makers, designers and systems engineers allowing him to make a useful contribution to any superyacht project.

Matt still regularly travels the globe supporting customers at the various superyacht regattas through the year, and when time allows he likes to race locally.

mattb@doylesails.co.nz

Ross Dibley

One Design Manager

What Ross doesn't know about one design classes isn't worth knowing! Ross has been instrumental in Doyle's recent success in the Optimist and P classes. His attention to detail, and ability to develop fast sails across a range of classes has brought him to prominence in New Zealand and internationally.

ross@doylesails.co.nz

Andy Pilcher

Local, Pacific and Asia Sales
  
Andrew started sailmaking with Chris McMaster and progressed through part owning and managing a satellite operation shortly after. While sailmaking in Auckland he completed the RNZYS youth scheme and during this time raced virtually every major sailing regatta and class championship on the local market, at some stage or another winning most.

Andrew then moved offshore, sailing on some of the most prestigious race yachts, then took up the position as sales manager for a very large Asian-based sailmaking company. During this time he competed as crew and occasionally skippering various yachts representing NZ in the Kenwood Cup, 3 China Sea Cups, 3 Japan Cups, the Seven Feet Cup match racing regatta in Russia and many other offshore and international regattas.

Andrew's experience and relationship base extends heavily throughout Asia and the international sailing market.

andyp@doylesails.co.nz

Richard Hulston 

Doyle Rigging
 
Richard runs Doyle's rigging department.








richardh@doylerigging.com

Robert Eades

Marine Trimming Manager 

Robert began work in the Marine industry over 15 years ago, training as a marine trimmer in the Auckland area. Rob has previously run his own businesses both locally and in the UK. During this time he specialised in high finish exterior marine trimming and as part of this business he specialised in the recovering of antique upholstery.

Over the years Rob has worked on many top superyachts and offshore based projects. The skills learned have played a major part in landing some of the top contracts in NZ.

Rob can offer expert advice on all cover work - whether it be an all-over powerboat cover or a 150' superyacht interior.

rob@doylesails.co.nz

Roger Hall

Local and Northland Sales 
  
Roger started sailmaking so long ago no-one can remember, and during his time as a sailmaker, Roger has sailed virtually every class of boat and made specialist one design sails for almost every international New Zealand sailor.

Roger managed the Lidgard North Shore loft for many years before leaving to pursue a more international career, managing several America's cup lofts and shore bases. Over the past four years Roger has worked for Doyle NZ in various capacities, before being called on to manage production. This challenging role calls for his skills in management as well as sail design. Roger is responsible for almost all aspects of the production of the sail once the order is underway.

Roger is actively involved in most dinghy classes locally and can be found taking part in regattas most weekends, his particular expertise lies with Finns, OKs, Jolly Boats and TS16s, all of which he has won championships in. 
 
rogerh@doylesails.co.nz

Logan Devoy

Service Manager
 
Logan has been sailing keelboats since childhood, heading offshore in the 1990's to pursue international sailing opportunities. While overseas, Logan ran a large international sailmaking loft in Hong Kong for many years before returning to NZ to raise a family in 2000.

Logan has successfully crewed at Grand Prix level in numerous international regattas around the globe including Kenwood Cups, Commodores Cup (Cowes), SORC Miami, and won most of the premier Asian keelboat regattas including Kings Cups in Thailand, China Sea races, China Coast Cups, and more.

Logan's sailing experience coupled with his strong background in business management and customer relationships make him perfectly suited to his highly customer-focused role of running the service loft.

logand@doylesails.co.nz