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Regatta wins, championship reports and podium finishes from boats flying UK Sailmakers sails.

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Silver stainless steel piston hank for a hanked-on jib, on a white background

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Bye Bye Roller Furling…Back to Hanks

View fullsize Doublehanded racing has been growing in popularity for over a decade. With the interruption to big boat racing caused by the worldwide pandemic, doublehanded racing has taken…

January 30, 2021

Collage of eight boats: spinnaker runs, a cruiser at a red boathouse, IRL 3260 and CINNARRON under sail, a sunset cockpit

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WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER

Congratulations to the winners in our Christmas time raffle. For the 12 days of Christmas, we raffled off three UK Sailmakers duffel bags and nine UK Sailmakers caps. The winners were a…

January 29, 2021

Cruising sloop with a Swedish courtesy flag sailing past a rocky coastline

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UK Sailmakers 12 Gifts for Christmas Giveaway for 12 Lucky Winners!

Congratulations to the 12 lucky winners: davideccles… palmer781… olleape… dbjleath… frankdesmond… bay… fgl… originally… karlolofedl… jginn… tdaley12… gbla… All the winners will be contacted…

December 26, 2020

J/70 GER 717 at Kiel Week 2015 flying a white asymmetric spinnaker, white mainsail with J/70 insignia, spinnakers around

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WIDER HEAD MAINSAILS: A NEW TREND

View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Small fathead mainsails, where the roach of the sail is increased due to a considerably wider head of the sail are becoming a new trend on the race…

December 22, 2020

Cruising sloop with a Swedish courtesy flag sailing past a rocky coastline

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CODE ZERO CRUISING AND DAYSAILING

By Adam Loory General Manager of UK Sailmakers International In mid November, I got to enjoy the warm fall day with a late season daysail on New York’s Long Island Sound. While the code…

December 6, 2020

J/109 WHISKEY JACK running under a magenta asymmetric spinnaker with yellow stripes and HKG sail number, others astern

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UPDATING THE VENERABLE J/109

View fullsize The J/109 WHISKEY JACK sailing fast and deep with her A2, which is slightly bigger than the class’s one-design asymmetrical spinnaker. All photos by Guy Nowell. The J/109…

December 5, 2020

J/125 JACK KNIFE heeled hard in grey squally seas with crew on the rail at the IRC Regatta, Pwllheli

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ALL SQUALLS PASS

View fullsize Andy Green's entry in the 2019 Mirabaud Yacht Racing photo contest. About the image he wrote, "This was a cool shot of the J/125 JACK KNIFE from the IRC Regatta in Pwlhrli…

November 17, 2020

Racing fleet running downwind at the China Coast Regatta, led by a hot-pink spinnaker with yellow stripes

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RECENT RACE RESULTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

St. James's Place China Coast Regatta : Nick Southward’s J/109 WHISKEY JACK won IRC Class 3 with four firsts and two seconds. Her upwind sails are Titanium. Guy Nowell photo. View fullsize…

October 13, 2020

King 40 CHECKMATE running wing-on-wing in big seas, grey No. 4 genoa poled out and a reefed black mainsail

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HEAVY AIR RACING — PRACTICE MADE IT PERFECT

View fullsize Geoff Bishop’s King 40 CHECKMATE sailing wing-on-wing with her No. 4 genoa and reefed main. Photos by Lindsay Preece, Ironbark Photos. Racing is just starting up again in…

October 9, 2020

Platu 25 heeled hard upwind under grey UK Sailmakers sails, crew in blue hiking as spray flies

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UK SAILS TAKE FIRST AND THIRD AT PLATU 25 UKRAINIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Rodin Luka’s Platu 25 BLACK SEA PIRATES. ODESSA, Ukraine, Sept 24-27. The Ukrainian National Championship for the Platu 25 one-design class drew 21 boats to the Odessa Racing Yacht Club on…

September 29, 2020

SOULMATES under black upwind sails flying a red-and-white asymmetric spinnaker, two crew aboard

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THE VINEYARD RACE – STEPPING UP OUR DOUBLEHANDED PROGRAM

View fullsize SOULMATES shortly after the start of the 2020 Vineyard Race. Photoboat.com photo. As told by Gerard Girstl Over the years, my racing experience has largely been on fully…

September 9, 2020

CELERITAS, sail number 3340, sailing at sunset under tan vintage UK Sailmakers sails, crew on the rail

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TWO GUYS, A BOAT, AND A SLEW OF VINTAGE UK SAILS

Mike McLaughlin and Will Beery are a pair of Connecticut sailors who sailed with each other for years. Importantly, as you chat with them, you quickly learn that in addition to being…

September 9, 2020

Diagram: luff head to wind mid-line and the bow points to the favoured end of the starting line

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THE TALE OF TWO STARTS

View fullsize There’s old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Basically, it means you should have situational awareness. In a recent Thursday night beer can…

July 15, 2020

Five cruiser-racers crossing a start line in light air under grey skies, sails barely filled

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LESSON LEARNED: STAY IN THE WIND

View fullsize When racing in light winds, make sure to stay in the wind. Last Thursday, we took the lead in a race by taking a few extra tacks sailing beyond the layline in order to stay in…

June 18, 2020

Large cruising yacht beating to windward under grey X-Drive® main and genoa, sail number 7529, off a rocky coast

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X-DRIVE DELIVERS IT ALL: PERFORMANCE, DURABILITY, VALUE

The Oyster 575 Lisanne with X-Drive double taffeta sails. She is currently cruising around the world and this picture was taken at the Oyster Regatta in Spain, where she won her class. UK…

June 18, 2020

J/22 with white main and jib, sail number USA 24, three crew aboard on flat water under a blue sky

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UK SAILMAKERS SAILS DOMINATE IN TEXAS

View fullsize Kevin Dirksmeyer photo Congratulations to Doug Weakly and Ken Horn for winning big at last weekend’s Surfings’ Safari Regatta at Corpus Christi Yacht Club. Weakly dominated…

June 18, 2020

Andrew Weiss and Lawrence Cutler's J/88 One Too Many under black sails, number 17, sailing before the start

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ONE TOO MANY TAKES FIRST IN FLEET IN SOCIAL DISTANCING DISTANCE RACE

View fullsize Andrew Weiss and Lawrence Cutler’sJ/88 ONE TOO MANY sailing before the start. Click on any image to enlarge. View fullsize With organized racing on New York’s Long Island…

May 29, 2020

Three masked volunteers holding up a UK Sailmakers box of colourful sailcloth PPE outside a brick building

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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…

May 8, 2020

Cruising sloop with a Swedish courtesy flag sailing past a rocky coastline

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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…

February 21, 2020

Cruising sloop with a Swedish courtesy flag sailing past a rocky coastline

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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…

January 30, 2020

Bow of the schooner AMERICA 2.0 with UK Sailmakers logos on her white sails, a crewman aboard, Statue of Liberty astern

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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…

January 30, 2020

TRIPLE LINDY's No. 4 jib poled out to windward dead downwind, mast display showing 12.4 knots of boatspeed

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DON'T FORGET YOUR SPINNAKER POLE

View fullsize Joe Mele’s Swan 44 TRIPLE LINDY sailing dead downwind in the 2017 Middle Sea Race. The instruments are reading: Heading: 152° Boatspeed: 12.4 knots Apparent Wind Angle: 169°…

January 30, 2020

Karen Lewis dozing on KENAI's rail, the yellow hood of her grey foul-weather jacket pulled over her face, grey seas behind

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SURVIVAL MODE OR DISTANCE RACE ZONE OUT

View fullsize View fullsize You’re on a distance race. The mark is somewhere over the horizon and hours of sailing away. The wind strength and direction are steady so the sails don’t need…

December 17, 2019

One-Tonner LOVE MACHINE burying her bow in a wall of spray, sail number 14445, crew in orange gear on the foredeck

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J/44 KENAI BASHES BEST TO NASSAU

View fullsize Tom Leutwiler’s famous 1976 photo of the 38-foot One-Tonner LOVE MACHINE in the Miami-Nassau Race. Congratulations to Chris and Karen Lewis and the crew of their J/44 KENAI…

November 26, 2019

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