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

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Tight pack of J/109s running under blue, white and red spinnakers at the 2019 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta

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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…

November 26, 2019

J/105 FINAL FINAL, 396, upwind with black mainsail and white jib, five crew on the rail, another J/105 astern

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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…

October 31, 2019

Helmsman in an AMBUSH crew shirt at the wheel as a wave breaks over the bow, grey mainsail and jib overhead

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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,…

October 31, 2019

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

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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…

October 31, 2019

Seven-frame sequence of a 2006 Manhasset Fall Series gybe broach under a red, white and blue spinnaker, boom flying over

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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…

October 31, 2019

Waves sweeping across HUBO's cockpit under a stormy sky, black mainsail with Hubo script overhead, Marlow and Harken stickers

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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…

September 30, 2019

Two match-racing keelboats with BMW logos on their mainsails duelling close together off a rocky shore lined with spectators

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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…

September 30, 2019

Yellow-hulled HUBO reaching under black mainsail and jib with Hubo script logo, two crew sailing doublehanded

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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…

September 17, 2019

Women's match-racing crew in black hiking on a white keelboat with a BERGQVIST boom banner and yellow flag off a rocky shore

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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…

August 28, 2019

Grey-hulled yacht driving through choppy seas under black mainsail and jib, spray flying, in the 2019 Fastnet Race

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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…

August 28, 2019

Swan 36 FINOLA, GBR 23806, and cream-sailed S&S 41 WINSOME, NED 118, among yachts on the 2019 RORC Channel Race start line

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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…

August 2, 2019

Jim Lincoln smiling in a navy ABYC visor and dark sunglasses aboard a boat in a marina

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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…

August 2, 2019

Santa Cruz 52 SIN DUDA!, USA 28252, ghosting under the Mackinac Bridge with dark grey mainsail and jib

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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…

July 29, 2019

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

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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…

July 13, 2019

HIRO MARU beating upwind under grey laminate mainsail and genoa, crew in red jackets hiked on the rail

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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…

July 13, 2019

Adam Loory's custom 40-footer SOULMATES pounding upwind bow-on into a wave, spray flying, dark grey sails

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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…

July 12, 2019

X-302 DUX beating upwind under grey X-Drive® mainsail and No. 1 genoa, two crew in the cockpit, blue-striped hull

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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.…

June 21, 2019

Trimaran under black UK Titanium mainsail and jib flying a Canadian flag along a cliff-lined shore in the Race to Alaska

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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…

June 20, 2019

Video still from BETTY BOOP's cockpit in a gale, crew in yellow and red gear with a headsail flogging overhead

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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…

June 20, 2019

Alden 50 ELENA driving upwind under grey X-Drive® genoa with crew on the rail and a bow wave flying

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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…

May 28, 2019

Alden 50 ELENA sailing under a new grey X-Drive® genoa and white mainsail, crew gathered under the dodger

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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…

May 23, 2019

Four yachts running downwind under red, blue, magenta and white spinnakers on flat water with an autumn shoreline

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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…

May 15, 2019

Salona 44 ANGER MANAGEMENT heeled in rough seas under a reefed mainsail and No. 4 genoa below the Organ Pipes

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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…

May 1, 2019

Five sailors in fancy dress, including a Mario costume and a red-wigged mermaid, posing on a dock before their boat

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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…

April 26, 2019

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