SINCE 1972 DICK BATT HAS BEEN MAKING WINNING SAILS
AND SAILING WINNNG BOATS.

Dick graduated from Southampton University in 1972 and was immediately recruited into the sailmaking industry by Bruce Banks, where he relished the challenge of involvement in the pioneering years of computer-aided sail design and manufacture.

He remains one of the UK's foremost sails designers.

Dick has represented both Britain and New Zealand at World Championship level. Personal championship successes span singlehanders, two-man dinghies and one-design keelboats.

Demand for his sailmaking and design talents took Dick from Southampton to prominent lofts in the West Country, and Auckland, New Zealand, before establishing Batt Sails at Maidenhead in 1980, expanding to new premises in High Wycombe in 1991 and more recently relocating to Bosham.

He has twice won the International OK Dinghy and twice the National Squib championships as well as several National match racing championships. In 1989 he also won the National Merlin Rocket Championships. Championship success started as winning crew in the UK GP14 National Championships in 1972. He also has a successful track record skippering small offshore Micro-Multihulls.

Dick has enjoyed owning and racing many classes of boat, including:Albacore, B14, British Moth, Contender, Dragonfly, Enterprise, Flying Fifteen, Gull, International Fourteen, Merlin Rocket, OK Dinghy, Solo, Squib.