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Records, voyages, profiles and sea stories — the longer reads from the UK Sailmakers world.
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CUSTOMER PROFILE: SAILING SCRIBE CHISTIAN WILLIAMS
View fullsize Christian Williams is an author and journalist living in Southern California. His current boat, THELONIUS is an Ericson 381, which he has sailed to Hawaii and back --…
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COVID CRUISING, TRY THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
View fullsize By Brendan Huffman With so much of the world off limits to cruising this year, many cruisers can find adventure here among Southern California’s Channel Islands. To be sure,…
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CRUISER PROFILE: Conner Family Aboard SILVER HEELS
View fullsize By Oliver McCann View fullsize Following the 2018 Baja Haha cruiser rally, George, Ann and Brett Conner of Ventura cruised their Norseman 447, SILVER HEELS, even further to…
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IT IS HARD TO KEEP A GOOD SAILMAKER DOWN
View fullsize View fullsize Shown above are two pictures taken recently of Charles "Butch" Ulmer -- the "U" in UK Sailmakers -- still at work even though he celebrated his 80th birthday…
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SAILING PANDA'S NORTHER ADVENTURE: DOWNEAST MAINE
View fullsize Amanda Seltzer keeping a lookout as the Amel 39 PANDA goes through a notorious Maine fog bank. We thought the saying was to sail south until the butter melts and then turn…
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THE MEXICAN — KIWI STYLE
View fullsize On April 9, UK Sailmakers on our website posted an instructional How-To article about how to execute a Mexican spinnaker takedown. Click HERE . As an aside at the end of that…
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SV PANDA CHANGE OF COURSE
View fullsize Here's a post from Sailing SV Panda, a 39-foot Amel Sharki that is on an around the world voyage. Check out their Facebook page and YouTube site, which is Sailing SV Panda. We…
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PAYING IT BACK — NOT FORWARD
View fullsize By Buttons Padin, Co-chair of the Robie Pierce Regattas and UK Sailmakers’ marketing advisor We like to think that volunteers who organize and run regattas for sailors with…
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SOUTH PACIFIC BOUND
View fullsize We are Darren and Amanda on Sailing Panda. We’re a couple of new liveaboard sailors who saved our pennies and left a comfortable life on land to explore this great world by…
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SWAN RIVER PSYCHO SAILING
We all know that fast is fun. Here's a video of sailors having a ton of fun on the Swan River off Perth, Western Australia. Photographer Lindsay Preece captured this great downwind action…
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REACHING THROUGH LIFE AT 10 KNOTS
Shown here is my custom designed 40-foot racer/cruiser Soulmates. To get your frozen blood flowing in the midst of the northern hemisphere winter, here are a few clips of Soulmates jib…
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MEETING THE DEMANDS FOR DURABILITY
View fullsize Sail durability is on the minds of most cruisers and club racers. They use their boats 3-4 times a month and their sails last 6-10 years and UK Sailmakers more than satisfies…
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HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY BUTCH ULMER
View fullsize The top-10 things you need to know about Charles “Butch” Ulmer. Butch Ulmer turned 80 today. Along with that major birthday comes the realization that his legacy of sailing…
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ON-THE-WATER HOME COMING
View fullsize Jacksonville University leading a tight pack of J/109s in the 2019 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta. Stephen R. Cloutier photo All of us at UK Sailmakers work to help grow the…
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THE JOYS OF OCEAN RACING
View fullsize The Waarschip 36 HUBO power reaching in the 2019 Fastnet Race. Below are two articles about this fast, innovative…
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A PIECE OF 2019 HISTORY IS FOR SALE
View fullsize When racing in Europe this year it is impossible not to have come across Erik van Vuuren’s winning yellow monster Waarschip 36 HUBO. As of day one, Team UK Sailmakers was part…
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THE CIRCLE OF LIFE -- NOT THE LION KING -- SAILING
View fullsize Ken Horne’s J/105 FINAL FINAL racing upwind with her UK Titanium class jib and dacron class main. There is a circle of life for sailing that we’ve all unconsciously…
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FASTNET FLEET APPROACHING FINISH
View fullsize Perhaps it is because people are becoming increasingly time-poor, or because it neatly side-steps the problem of keeping a large crew together, but one area of offshore racing…
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JIM LINCOLN CROSSES HIS LAST FINISH LINE IN FIRST
View fullsize Jim Lincoln, UK Sailmakers’ representative in Long Beach, California, passed away in his sleep at the age of 61 in Hawaii after finishing the 2019 Transpac race first in class…
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ISLAND GIRL FAMILY STORY
View fullsize ISLAND GIRL before her refit that included new topsides. If the family that sails together stays together, the Burkhart family are clearly staying together. When Frank…
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I WENT TO A REGATTA AND A VACATION BROKE OUT
View fullsize Adam Loory’s custom 40-footer SOULMATES. All photos by photoboat.com In late June I returned from sailing my ninth Block Island Race Week; this year turned out to be a totally…
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TOP 10 REASONS TO GO WEEKNIGHT RACING
View fullsize Top-10 Reasons To Do Weeknight Racing 10 – You can practice your tactics and maneuvers in a low-pressure environment. 9 – You can bring along and train your B Team so they are…
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NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S RACE
View fullsize When you first learn about the Race to Alaska (R2AK), you quickly learn this really is not your grandfather’s yacht race. As the regatta’s website states: “No motor, no…
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THE BEST USE OF WOOD SINCE…THE CIGAR BOX!
View fullsize This drop-dead gorgeous wood and epoxy Waarschip 1012 is named DE SIGARENKIST, which translates to CIGARBOX for obvious reasons. Wood can be gorgeous, strong and light The…
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