Morning Folks, I hope you are all well. Good news on many fronts this morning. First up, Royal Mail have told us that we can now ship overseas without too much delay. If you are ordering from an international location we will ship your order in good timie but cannot be held responsible for the onward timescale. We can, of course, send you the tracking details so that you can keep an eye on where your shipment is up to, however RM suggest that there may be less tracking updates that usual. When we have tracked some of your parcels we have seen a long delay in the item leaving the UK, then often nothing until the item has reached the local delivery office.

We have paid for batten material. it should be with us imminently, probably tomorrow, and as soon as we have it in hand we will open up sail orders once again. Apologies for the delay, it’s something that was out of our hands but we will aim to fulfil new orders quickly as we have done in the past.

We’ve had an update from Royal Mail regarding International shipments. Their advice is for us still not to try and ship parcels to any International destinations. Full statement from RM please click here.

Batten material is still not available from our supplier and it seems that they now don’t have a delivery date. It’s a situation that is ever so frustrating and I need to take action on now as we haven’t been able to take sail orders since November 2022. I’m investigating alternatives which might turn out to be quicker than waiting for a supply through the usual channels. Watch this space.

I would hope that we can start taking sail orders once again early next week. As soon as we have the materials to fulfill sail orders with our usual speedy lead times we’ll have them back on the online shop.

Meantime there are some transmitter covers available and a few DF95 rig bags in stock along with our range of sticker sets and other accessories. Check out the online shop by clicking here.

Morning Folks, hope you’re all well and are enjoying whatever January has in store for you. We are continuing to fight the good fight and are getting through what we need to. We do, however, have an issue with shipping items overseas. It seems that Royal Mail suffered a ransomeware attack nearly two weeks ago and they have encountered serious issues to the point where there have been unable to process any parcels for export that have been in the system for that period.

The current advice is to not put anything else into the system as it is already overloaded, so we are currently holding all our overseas parcels until RM send us an update that they are able to cope once again.

Apologies for this, not much we can do currently. Shipping to UK locations is unaffected and we are working on a couple of days lead time currently.

Batten material should be with us next week all being well, we’ll keep you posted and as soon as we can get sails out again they will appear on the webshop to order.

We are back in the workshop today (9th Jan) for the first time and will be working through all the festive period orders. I would imagine that all shop orders placed over the period will be ready to ship either today or tomorrow at the latest.

Batten material update – we have made enquiry this morning with our supplier and they are reckoning that they should have the material before the end of this month which should see us back to sail production. As soon as we have further confirmation we’ll let you know.

Other than that we still have some tx covers and all our other sticker sets, numbers etc available on the shop.

Here’s to a slightly drier 2023!

So, we had a great week away seeing family and friends, travelled home on Friday and walked into a bit of a disaster movie. As you can see from the photo the dining room ceiling made an appearance on the dining room floor. A burst pipe has cost us Christmas at home and it looks like we’ll be out of the house for a good few months whilst the repairs take place.

Still no batten material so no sails just yet but we might have a couple of rig bags and tx covers to keep you entertained.

Looking at the mountain of work to do at home and with Royal Mail on strike once again this week I have decided to suspend any further shipping until the new year. I have shipped all but one order this morning with all UK orders on a guaranteed before 1pm service which should ensure that they are with you as quickly as possible.

I’ll let you know how things are going early in the new year when I’ve got a bit of straighter edge at home.

For now though please enjoy a peaceful and restful Christmas and New Year. Thanks again for all your support over 2022.

So, we had a great week away seeing family and friends, travelled home on Friday and walked into a bit of a disaster movie. As you can see from the photo the dining room ceiling made an appearance on the dining room floor. A burst pipe has cost us Christmas at home and it looks like we’ll be out of the house for a good few months whilst the repairs take place.

Still no batten material so no sails just yet but we might have a couple of rig bags and tx covers to keep you entertained.

Looking at the mountain of work to do at home and with Royal Mail on strike once again this week I have decided to suspend any further shipping until the new year. I have shipped all but one order this morning with all UK orders on a guaranteed before 1pm service which should ensure that they are with you as quickly as possible.

I’ll let you know how things are going early in the new year when I’ve got a bit of straighter edge at home.

For now though please enjoy a peaceful and restful Christmas and New Year. Thanks again for all your support over 2022.

As is now tradition at this time of year I am taking a little time off to go and see family and friends back in Yorkshire. The workshop is now closed and will remain closed until the 19th December when we will try to fulfill as many orders as we can before the Christmas break.

The shop will be open to take your order for any item other than sails as we are still awaiting batten material.

Cheers

Tim

It’s not often over the last few years that we’ve had to stop production of our sails and I’m not a big fan of it. However we’ve hit on an issue that means we will have to stop production of all our sail offerings for the time being. Our batten supplier has run out of batten material which means we can’t produce any sails at all.

Rather than allow you guys to keep ordering sails from us with no idea of a manufacturing date doesn’t seem quite right to me so I have removed all the sails from our shop for the time being. Not ideal timing with Christmas looming but there isn’t much I can do. I am trying to find alternatives that will keep the quality right up there but this is taking a little time too.

As soon as the issue is solved I’ll put the sails back on the shop. In the meantime please check out the shop for all your other little stocking fillers. We have limited stock of transmitter covers.

Apologies for this but the issue is out of our hands.

Another Postal strike is happening over the next two days here in the UK. No point in posting stuff into s system that is broken so we’ll let it sort itself out and we’ll resume shipping on Monday.

Hello again, hope you’re all well and looking forward to the festive period which is just around the corner. Here at Soch Sails we have been beetling along and are not far off being up to date with all our orders which is great news.

It seems that the Post Office are striking again here in the UK over the 24th and 25th November so our only posting this week was yesterday (22nd). No point in piling stuff into an overcrowded system. Our next post will be on Monday.

I have decided that I’m only working four days a week through the winter months which will allow me a little more time for home stuff and family time. I’m confident that I can cope with the reduced hours, and having worked seven days a week all summer it seems sensible to strike some sort of work / life balance.

Coming up to the Christmas period I’m taking a little time off too beforehand to go over the Yorkshire and see family that I haven’t had time to see this year, the workshop will be closed from the 8th December until maybe the 15th. So, if you want Soch Sails Christmas goodies under your tree then best order sooner rather than later.

Cut off date for overseas posting is around the 10th December. If it isn’t out the door before I go away it won’t be with you before Christmas I’m afraid.

Not much to report on the sailing front, I did the UK RC Laser Nationals which was fun, fourth spot finish, should have done better but didn’t! Other than that I’ve not sailed at all since. It’s the MYA AGM on Saturday so I’ll have a day trip to that which will be fun I’m sure.

Nothing more to report really, orders come in, things get manufactured and things get shipped out. it seems to work well enough.