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1) How do you use your boat? -- select -- Cruising Racing Cruising and some Racing Racing and some Cruising
2) Performance vs. Longevity -- select -- Highest Performance Performance and Longevity Longevity
3) Select your type of sail -- select -- Main Genoa Symmetrical Spinnaker A-Symmetrical Spinnaker Storm Sails Code Zero
4) Select your boat size -- select -- <30 30-36 >37
Hanko, Norway – The 2011 ORCi European Championship, hosted by the Royal Norwegian YC (KNS), was won by Peter Schmidt and his German team sailing the Evento 42 SILVA HISPANIOLA, which was powered by UK Sailmakers Sails. Winning Division 1 and the overall title by 9.5 boats was the result of the six-year-old boat’s superior boatspeed and crew work. The German team never finished worse than fourth in the eight-race series, and never worse than 3rd in the six inshore races. Second and third went to two
Pictured above is the new UK Sailmakers Code 00 spinnaker. This chute is designed specifically for jib reaching situations on boats rigged with non-overlapping jibs. Jibs used on boats with this sail configuration are intended for windward performance. They are typically very high aspect sails, which means they develop tons of twist the minute the sheet is eased. In a word, they are not good reaching sails; thus, boatspeed suffers the minute the wind gets too high or too close for a regular Code 0.
Pictured above is the 30-meter (98-foot) HISPANIA, which was built for the King of Spain, HM King Alfonso XIII, in 1909. She has recently finished an extensive rebuild, is getting ready to race again with UK Sailmakers Spain’s Andy Longarela as the skipper.
Steve Cain, owner and skipper of the Beneteau 36.7 SHOOTING STAR, writes about winning Division 7 in the 2011 Around Long Island Race. This is a 190-mile race that is a near circumnavigation of New York’s Long Island. The race starts off the southwest corner of Brooklyn and finishes at the northwest corner of the Island off Sea Cliff Yacht Club. SHOOTING STAR beat the second place boat, another Beneteau 36.7 by over 45 minutes:
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The Valmadre Cup was the final race of the four heat Fremantle winter series; 45 boats came out to race in a gusty 25-knot northeaster on Gage Roads off of Fremantle. In Division Zero, Trevor Taylor’s Marten 49 OPTIMUS PRIME staged an overdue charge in the tough conditions to take the triple crown of line honours, first in IRC and first in YAH handicap.
Almost every sailmaker designs sails on a computer, but the trick is building a sail that will keep its intended shape. UK Sailmakers can offer the option of building sails with the patented Tape-Drive® con-struction system as well as with the standard radial and crosscut layouts. This flexibility ensures that you get a durable sail that is custom-designed and built.You have probably noticed that there is considerable variation in how panels are arranged in modern sails. These variations result from the fact that sailcloth is most resistant to stretch when the yarns are in line with the loads in the sail. Because the loads change direction from place to place within a sail, sailmakers arrange the panels to keep the stronger threadline aligned with the loads, particularly in the leech area where the greatest loading occurs. With smaller, less heavily loaded sails, fabrics can be selected which are adequately strong in all directions, tending to eliminate the need for the more complex and costly panel layouts.
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