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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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HYDRA NET® RADIAL: THE PREMIUM WOVEN CLOTH FOR CRUISING
With the boat show season upon us, now is the time to talk to your local UK Sailmakers loft about new sails for 2020. For owners of cruising multihulls and large cruising monohulls who…
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THE LIFESLING: THE SAFEST MOB RECOVERY METHOD
After multiple, well-reported incidents of failed man overboard recovery attempts, the thought leaders within the world of safety at sea are evolving their thinking regarding the best way…
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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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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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SECRETS OF THE LATE MAIN GYBE
The “Late Main Gybe” method is the key to the fastest possible asymmetrical spinnaker gybe. Delaying the boom’s crossing avoids the main blanketing the spinnaker as it is trying to re-fill.…
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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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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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A STARTING LINE TRICK
By Adam Loory Here is a recount of a good start I pulled off at the Governor’s Cup of Western Long Island Sound. The starting line was heavily skewed with the starboard end very favored.…
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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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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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TURNING A DOUBLE PLAY
By Buttons Padin In baseball, players get traded today and are starting with a new team the next day. At first you wonder how they can integrate that quickly into a new team; however, if…
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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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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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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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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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AVOID COSTLY GYBES BY SAILING WING-ON-WING
View fullsize Here’s a simple solution to a complex tactical leeward mark situation. We’ve all been there and done that: approaching a leeward mark but your line is too high to do a desired…
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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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