STEALTH
A chance phone call to Dave Hackford in early January 2014 unleashed the news that Roger Tushingham was in the midst of a covert mission to the Isle of Wight to check over the finishing touches to their new sail line ‘The Bolt’. I’d already heard a few rumours that they were working on a major secret project, but armed with this latest intel, I jumped in my car and headed straight for Ken Black’s sail loft to check out the evidence first hand. Hidden off the beaten track on a road known to the locals as ‘The Undercliff’, Ken’s house is the perfect stealth HQ to carry out the last tweaks and changes to their new range away from the public eye. As I pull up the drive, Roger and Ken already have several of the very latest prototypes unrolled in the garden and are meticulously checking every detail before the new models can be put into full-scale production.