So that’s it, Soch Sails is now closed until the New Year. We’ve done our last post just now and are off to the pub for a well earned pint.

Thanks for all your support once again this year through what has sometimes been a little bit of a strange year. The Soch Sails brand continues to be represented on a worldwide stage by many skippers both returning customers and new and we thank you all for your support both professionally and also some of the personal messages I received earlier in the year.

May we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a new year full of exciting sailing opportunities.

We will reopen the workshop on the 4th January when any orders placed from today onwards will be manufactured and shipped. For any last minute bits our other business RC Yachts are continuing to ship orders until Friday 19th.

Cheers, Tim & Simon

As we approach Christmas we thought it would be a good idea to let you know what our hours will be over the festive period.

We’ll do our last post on Wednesday 17th December when we will close the workshop until the new year.

Any order placed after this date will not be shipped until at least the first week of January. We will be available via email during this period but will not be routinely checking it every day so please don’t be alarmed if it takes some time for us to get back to you. We will also be turning the phones off over Christmas for some well earned peace and quiet.

Thanks for your support again over the 2025 season. an interesting year in many respects but hey I’m still here so it can’t have been too bad in the end. We’ll hopefully find ourselves out and about by the side of some ponds over the 2026 season and perhaps we’ll see you for a beer…or two.

Have a splendidly festive period.

So as you may know we are taking over the running of RC Yachts, As part of this we will be heading off to Kent early on Monday morning to collect all the stock that they hold and bring it back to North Wales.

I imagine this will take a few days and as such there will be some delays in getting Soch Sails orders out of the door. If you place an order between 1400 (UK time) Friday 31st October it may not be shipped until the 10th November. It might be shipped a little earlier but we don’t know quite what we will be faced with in terms of getting the RC Yachts business integrated into our daily lives!

Thanks for your understanding and we’ll keep you updated as we go along.

Morning folks, good news. At long last our delivery of RC Laser spares and sails has arrived. We now have stock of everything you might need apart from an actual boat. Bit of a pain that there are no boats available for several months but we’ll deal with what’s in front of us and get you supplied with what we have. If you need anything RC Laser (apart from a boat) then please head over to the online shop to snag your goodies. Click here to go straight there!

Any orders placed between now and Monday will be picked or manufactured but not shipped until Monday as I’m having a few days off before a really busy couple of weeks relocating RC Yachts from Kent to N Wales!

Our phone number is changing. To make life a little easier as we integrate RC Yachts and Soch Sails into a busy life Tim has decided to get a new line which will serve both RC Yachts from November and Soch Sails from now. If you need to get hold of Soch Sails for RC Laser spares or DF sails and accessories please call this number – 07826 561061 and you should get Tim’s chirpy voice one way or another. Thanks.

We’re having a bit of a clear out of one of our workshops and will have some additions to our clearance section. As ever we’ll post stuff that’s probably worth having but it’ll be going cheap….like a budgie. Check back regularly over the next few weeks and you’ll find some interesting bits and bobs that we just don’t need. There’s sailmaking materials that we don’t use, some sails that we don’t need and even a boat or two coming up.

Check out the Clearance Clarence page by clicking here.

Afternoon Folks, hope you’re all well. We are getting along just fine and are heading into our big boatyard winter period which is a nice time of year for us. Healthwise Tim is good and in fine form, he is having some immunotherapy to compliment his kidney removal and currently that isn’t causing him too many issues.

Soch Sails wise we are as busy as ever, supplying sails, sticker sets and all of our other goodies to all corners of the globe. The USA seems to have sorted itself out postage wise, the duty is applied at the checkout and varies depending on the country of origin of the goodies you’re purchasing. Most of our goodies are manufactured in the UK so only attract a 10% duty charge.

We have had a trip out to the DF95 Nationals where, unfortunately Tim’s eyes let him down and there wasn’t a lot of racing for him to do. Always good to see a number of skippers using our sails, stickers and accessories at events, and this one was no exception with skippers up and down the fleet flying the Soch flag.

We have had word that there has been a delivery of RC Laser boats and parts with our supplier and we will be confirming our latest order early next week with them. I would imagine this will see a delivery sometime before the end of this month which is somewhat of a relief as we are nearly out of most items now.

In other news we are in the final weeks of an acquisition of a new to us business. It’s been a long time in the making but at the beginning of November we will be taking over RC Yachts, the best and most well stocked suppliers globally of the very successful DF65 and DF95 yachts spares and accessories. We have a container order in progress with Joysway which should find us in late November to restock the items we are purchasing from Mike. Not much will change in terms of the running of the business other than that there will be a short shutdown period to facilitate the change of location from Kent to North Wales. This will be well documented on the RC Yachts socials.

Soch Sails will continue as a separate entity with the webshop operating as usual and orders being fulfilled in our usual timely fashion. Again, outwardly nothing will change and we look forward to continuing to supply you with all your sail and accessory needs for radio sailing. We may need to scale down production of our time consuming IOM sails for a period of time but the rest of the catalogue should remain unchanged.

As ever the shop remains open to take your order www.sochsails.online

Meantime here are some of the sails we have made recently.

For all our lovely US customers we can now take orders for our products through the website once again. Our shop providers have added functionality to add a new market to the shop which is USA specific. Products with a country of origin of the UK will have a 10% duty attached to them so on a 20 buck set of stickers you’ll be charged 22 bucks. In reality this means that 99% of our products will be charged at this rate. If you buy a DF rig kit from us the duty will jump to nearly 50% so it might be worth searching out home soil stock that hasn’t been subjected to this duty yet. I would assume US retailers will have to amend prices when they next have a delivery.

There is a possibility that this will actually speed up US deliveries a little as they will be shipped duty paid and shouldn’t (all being well) get hung up in customs halls. We are also investigating the option of shipping to some European countries in the same manner which will streamline shipping to these countries too. This may take a week to figure out!

Meantime, USA customers, please feel free to order from us as usual.

Check out the online shop by clicking here.

As per all our UK sailmaking colleagues we have had to suspend shipping to the USA currently due to the confusion and lack of information on how to best sort out the addition of tariff and duty to your USA orders. We are currently working hard with our online shop partners and our delivery partners to resolve this to a best case scenario.

It might take a few days to get it sorted but it may also be beneficial to our European customers too as our delivery partners are now offering Delivery Duty Paid (DDP) services which will streamline deliveries to other locations.

Please bear with us whilst we sort this out.

After the last delay with the container it seems there are now further delays with RC Laser products reaching us.

Apparently there are now no boats in stock as well as bags and A sails which, after such a period, is a little disappointing. Whilst we love the RC Laser, and all that it is, it does seem that supply is perhaps not as reliable as it used to be which is a shame as there is some renewed enthusiasm for the class here in the UK.

We’ll keep you posted and let you know when we can expect stock.