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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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J/105 ONE-DESIGN DOMINANCE
Ken Horn’s J/105 FINAL FINAL dominated the 10-boat J/105 class at J-Fest Southwest sailed Oct. 26-28 out of Lake Wood Yacht Club on Galveston Bay. Horn’s team crushed the fleet by 10 points…
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GOOD MORNING VIETNAM
Congrats to Joachim Isler and Drew Taylor for winning IRC Class 1 in the 673-mile Hong Kong to Vietnam Race, an epic downwind ride from Hong Kong to the Asian paradise of Nha Trang,…
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MINIMIZE PROBLEMS WHEN THE WHEELS FALL OFF
As aviation crash investigators know, airplane crashes are seldom the result of one mistake; they are usually the result of a cascade of events. When the wheels start to fall off, you need…
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A WELL DOCUMENTED GYBE BROACH
View fullsize By Adam Loory Facebook sent me a reminder of this sequence of photos from a post many years ago. It was back in the day that I sailed my Express 37 in a very competitive PHRF…
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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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LEVERAGE ON THE COURSE -- USE IT OR LOSE IT
View fullsize Think of “leverage” and its fleeting nature this way: you buy a stock at a low price and it goes up. Rather than selling it for a comfortable profit, you hold it in the hope…
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HUBO DOMINATED 2019 IRC DOUBLEHANDED NATIONALS
View fullsize Sailed on the English Channel and the Solent, the RORC IRC Doublehanded Nationals was sailed over the first two weekends of September. The Dutch W36 HUBO dominated the IRC…
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Womens’ World Match Racing
View fullsize The Women’s Match Racing World Championship was sailed in Lysekil, Sweden this August in Fareast 28Rs equipped with UK Sailmakers sails. Shown above is one of the Swedish…
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PASSING LANE IN THE 2019 FASTNET RACE
View fullsize The MC 34 AZAWAKH sailing with her Titanium main and No. 3 jib. View fullsize The 620-mile Fastnet Race is one of yachting’s most challenging competitions. With most of the…
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BIG = GOOD ... SMALL=BAD. NOT NECESSARILY WHEN IT COMES TO SAIL SELECTION
View fullsize The Swan 36 FINOLA (GBR 23806) and the S&S 41 WINSOME (NED 118) on the starting line of the 2019 RORC Channel Race. By Graham Curran, UK Sailmakers Ireland Walking through the…
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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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DETAILS ON SIN DUDA!’s MAC RACE VICTORY
UK Sailmakers interviewed Lindsey Duda (Chicago Yacht Club) who skippered her Santa Cruz 52 SIN DUDA! to victory in Section 2 of the Chicago-Mackinac race. For Lindsey and her crew, this…
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Reefing Downwind in 30 Knots
Here’s a great video taken in this year’s Race to Alaska that shows the crew of SHUT-UP AND DRIVE reefing their main while blasting down waves. The boat is a Figaro 2, which is a 33-foot…
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COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN IN TRANSATLANTIC RACE
View fullsize The S&S 49 HIRO MARU at the start of the 2018 Newport to Bermuda Race flying the same X-Drive No. 1 genoa she used in the Transatlantic race. Notice the partial black taffeta…
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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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ANOTHER CLASS WIN AND OVERALL TITLE TAKEN BY X-DRIVE
View fullsize DUX’s X-Drive mainsail has a lightweight 5X5 Liteskin for extra durability on both sides of the sail since her mainsail is used in winds from next to nothing to over 30 knots.…
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RACE TO ALASKA – UK TITANIUM HELPED PUT TWO ON THE PODIUM
Team Pear Shaped Racing’s trimaran DRAGON. UK Sailmakers helped put the second and third place finishers on the podium in the 2019 Race to Alaska. The 750-mile course runs from Port…
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RACING IN A GALE, A FIRST HAND STORY
By Morten Christensen This year’s Skagen Race, a 110-mile run south from Oslo, Norway to the town of Skagen at the northern-most point on the mainland of Denmark was sailed in horrific…
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FIRST CLASS, FIRST IN FLEET, BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE
On May 25, we posted a story about Steve Gordon’s Alden 50 ELENA and how a new all-purpose headsail from UK Sailmakers had exceeded Steve’s expectations during the 2019 Edlu Race. Steve and…
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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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MAKING GAINS DOWNWIND: Your Instruments Aren’t Your Only Instruments
Last Thursday night during our evening racing series, I got pushed over the line early and had to restart. There were only three boats in our class—it’s still early in the season—but it was…
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SYDNEY HOBART RACE -- MAKING THE MOST WITH A RAW OFFSHORE CREW ON “ANGER MANAGEMENT”
View fullsize The Salona 44 ANGER MANAGEMENT rounding the Organ Pipes off Tasmania’s Cape Raoul. Storm Bay is living up to its name with the wind blowing 35 knots forcing ANGER MANAGEMENT…
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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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