{"id":15043,"date":"2025-06-24T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollytasker.com\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:24:24","slug":"around-the-world-with-nehaj-and-susanne-huber-curphey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rollytasker.com\/en\/news\/around-the-world-with-nehaj-and-susanne-huber-curphey\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Susanne Huber-Curphey Trusts Rolly Tasker Sails After 163,000 Miles at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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One of the world\u2019s most experienced and accomplished ocean cruising sailors, Susanne Huber-Curphey, recently took delivery of a suit of new Rolly Tasker Sails. These sails were made to our highest Ocean Specification<\/strong> and also include some of her own ideas<\/strong> for details that we will take a look at below.<\/p>

For 10 years now, Susanne has been voyaging the world\u2019s oceans single-handed<\/strong> on her purpose-built aluminum cutter<\/strong>, which is named after the castle ‘Nehaj’<\/strong> in Croatia, translating to ‘feel safe here’ or ‘have no fear’. To this day, Susanne and her boat have logged 163.403 nautical miles<\/strong> with 1.272 days at sea<\/strong>. She has been honoured<\/strong> with many medals and awards, by the Trans-Ocean sailing club<\/a>, by the Cruising Club of America<\/a> and by the Ocean Cruising Club<\/a> to which she has also been invited as an honorary member.<\/p>

The most notable of her numerous awards are possibly the CCA Rod Stephens Award<\/strong> and the OCC Barton Cup<\/strong>, as well as the prestigious recognition from Trans-Ocean (TO-Preis)<\/strong> that she received three times in 2011, 2017 and again in 2020.<\/p>

Why Choose Rolly Tasker Sails<\/h2>

This is what Susanne said about choosing Rolly Tasker Sails:<\/p>

\u201cIn her ten years, Nehaj spent a high percentage of her miles in the high latitudes of the North and in the Southern Ocean<\/strong>, though she had crossed the equator seven times<\/strong> in between. It included Spitsbergen at Latitude 80\u00ba North and rounding Cape Hoorn offshore twice. For this demanding kind of sailing, I need to have the best possible sail quality.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>

Ocean-Going Sail Wardrobe on Nehaj<\/h2>

On Nehaj, Susanne carries an extensive sail wardrobe:
Two mainsails<\/a>, two staysails<\/a>, two light weather\/downwind<\/a> staysails, two Genoas<\/a>, two high-cut Yankees, plus one storm jib<\/a>, one trysail<\/a>, and an asymmetrical spinnaker<\/a> that she rarely uses.<\/p>

The new RTS sails are made from top quality Contender Warp Tech fabric<\/a>, designed in Tri-Radial cut<\/a>, and made with extra strong finishing.<\/p>

The new sails are:<\/strong><\/p>