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X-DRIVE: SOLVING THE SPEED, DURABILITY AND PRICE EQUATION
View fullsize X-Drive Carbon Black main and genoa. Carbon reinforcing yarns run continuously between the corners of the sails and the cross cut laminate panels are made with black aramid…
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X-YACHTS 46-FOOTER AND X-DRIVE CRUISING SAILS
Shown above is a video of a new X4.6, a 46-footer by X-Yachts with a new set roller/furling X-Drive Carbon cruising sails. X-Drive® performance cruising sails are perfect for cruising…
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EASY FURL CODE D CRUISING SPINNAKER
One of the biggest challenges cruising sailors face is how best to sail downwind with only your white up-wind sails set. The jib bangs against the mast and gets beat up and doesn’t provide…
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X-DRIVE RACING SAILS IN ACTION
If you ever wanted to see X-Drive sails in action, check out this video. It shows the X302 XEBEC with with X-Drive Carbon sails sailing out of Howth Yacht Club in Dublin, Ireland. The both…
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NOT JUST MEETING EXPECTATIONS...EXCEEDING THEM!
Steve Gordon’s Alden 50 ELENA needed a new headsail but he was asking for a lot — He asked for a good light-weight reaching genoa that would power the boat in this summer’s Marion to…
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SAIL ENVY
View fullsize Texan Mark Belanger sails his Hunter 430 out of Houston’s Lakewood Yacht Club on Galveston Bay. Mark is a cruiser who single-hands his boat regularly and has been sailing for…
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X-DRIVE POWERS POGO 12.5 OCEAN RACING ACADEMY
Ocean Racers’ Pogo 12.5 HERMES racing at the St. Marten Heineken Cup. Laurens Morel/saltycolours.com The Pogo 12.5 HERMES is a performance sailboat used for teaching offshore racing and…
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PARTIAL TAFFETA PROTECTION OPTION
To help protect today’s laminate sails and extend their peak performance lives, UK Sailmakers has the option to build laminate sails with one or both sides of the laminate is fully covered…
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UNI-TITANIUM: VALUE FOR MONEY
By Adam Loory, General Manager of UK Sailmakers International The English car designer Sir Frederick Henry Royce who, with Charles Rolls, founded the Rolls-Royce, once said, "The quality…
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Prolong Sail Life with Partial Taffeta
View fullsize MILKY WAY, a Dufour 40E, uses her X-Drive carbon sails for offshore races. To make the sails bullet proof, the leeches of the sails have a taffeta layer. The leeches of sails…
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LOTUS, a Vismara 50 with Uni-Titanium Liteskin sails from UK Sailmakers
LOTUS, a Vismara 50, is a high tech, high performance cruiser racer built in Italy with a lifting keel and teak decks. Shown here she is racing for a good cause in the San Francisco…
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Just Because It Has Three Corners Does Not Make It A Sail
View fullsize J/33 SIRIUS sailing with her new X-Drive Carbon main. Charles Taus bought an X-Drive genoa for his J/33 SIRIUS in 2017 from UK Sailmakers New York and noticed an immediate…
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DEPENDABLE AND AFFORDABLE: X-DRIVE®
View fullsize Carbon X-Drive on a polyester/mlyar base laminate that has a taffeta layer (light-weight finely-woven polyester cloth) on the side opposite the carbon tapes. This mainsail has…
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CARBON FIBER: THE HIGHEST PERFORMING YARN
View fullsize The Reichel/Pugh Southern Cross 52 BANDIDO with Uni-Titanium sails made with 100% carbon fiber. Normal.dotm 0 0 1 308 1760 UK-Halsey International 14 3 2161 12.0 0 false 18 pt…
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IMPROVE YOUR RESULTS BY KNOWING THE RULES
Click the image to see the features of the Rules Quiz program. UK Sailmakers' rules guru Butch always says that a good working knowledge of the rules will earn you places at major regattas.…
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RESULTS TRAINING
View fullsize Normal.dotm 0 0 1 131 748 UK-Halsey International 6 1 918 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Sometimes you race; sometimes you prefer to cruise. With UK…
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RULES TRAINING
Click image to play video To help sailors learn the racing rules of sailing, which are not necessarily that easy to learn by simply reading the rule book, UK Sailmakers has created an…
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SAFETY AT SEA VIDEO LIBRARY ON SALE
View fullsize Normal.dotm 0 0 1 165 943 UK-Halsey International 7 1 1158 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Available for the first time for all sailors, this 10-video library…
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UK's NEW J/105 TITANIUM JIB FASHION FORWARD?
View fullsize Who knew that Titanium LiteSkin sails could be a fashion accessory. Wendy Oakes posted this picture on her FB pages saying, "The new jib matches my toe nails; we can keep it."…
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UK SAILMAKERS ANIMATED RULES PROGRAM HAS BEEN UPDATED
View fullsize This image shows three different teaching tools that can be applied to the animated quizzes: Overlap lines, the zone and a grid where the lines are one boat length apart. Each…
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HYDRANT RADIAL PERFORMING ON 60-FOOT CAT
0 0 1 13 80 SIENN USA, LLC 1 1 92 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The new Dubois 60-foot catamaran with Radial HydraNet sails built by UK Sailmakers Turkey. The loft posted…
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UNI-TITANIUM UPDATE
Another impressive result came recently at the 2014 ORC World Championship, where Heinz-Peter Schmidt’s GP 42 NEO SILVA team earned a Bronze medal in the hard fought Class A. Schmidt and…
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