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UK Sailmakers Customers Finish First in Four of Eight Classes
View fullsize UK Sailmakers customers stood out at the 2019 Sovereigns Cup sailed out of Kinsale Yacht Club in southern Ireland. Of the eight classes, UK customers finished first in four. •…
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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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WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
You win some, you lose some, but when the right opportunity knocks, you have to be ready to pull the trigger and go! Here’s a couple of minutes of video shot by Stuart Lindow from Texas'…
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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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MAST ABEAM — A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Sitting around the UK Sailmakers water cooler (technically a scuttlebutt) the other day, a bunch of us got talking about the Racing Rules of Sailing and some of the rules that were deleted…
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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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HAPPY HOLIDAY WEEKEND: ENJOY IT WITH A FEW GOOD "HOW TO" TIPS
View fullsize To all sailors in the United States, Happy Memorial Day Weekend from the sailors getting ready to set out of on the Pacific Circuit Rally, which will take them from New…
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STAY IN YOUR BOX - By Buttons Padin
In 2013, I was fortunate enough to be on the crew of Larchmont Yacht Club’s entry in the New York Yacht Club’s Invitational Cup. We were the “young” team (OK, my age was the outlier);…
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TOP 10 REASONS TO GO WEEKNIGHT RACING
View fullsize Top-10 Reasons To Do Weeknight Racing 10 – You can practice your tactics and maneuvers in a low-pressure environment. 9 – You can bring along and train your B Team so they are…
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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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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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FASTER FINISHES of ASYMMETRICAL GYBES
This video shows two sprit boats gybing their asymmetrical spinnakers and is a good compare and contrast exercise to learn about the best way to gybe an asymmetrical spinnaker. Watch the…
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HOW TO RECOVER FROM THREE SPINNAKER FAILURES
View fullsize Before heading to Australia in December 2017 for their first Sydney-to-Hobart Race, the crew of Andrew Weiss’ CHRISTOPHER DRAGON had a briefing session with renowned ocean…
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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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MULTIHULL SAILMAKING SMARTS
Anyone who has been on the water in past years has seen the growth of the cruising (and racing) catamaran market. With many checking in at 50’+, these dual and triple hull boats have…
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BIGGER IS BETTER! NOT SO FAST...
Here are two photos from the start of the 2019 Patos Island Classic race in Sydney, BC, on the east side of Vancouver Island. The winds were in the high-teens. On the left is a C&C 35 with…
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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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PATOS ISLAND CLASSIC: A TALE OF THREE BOATS
View fullsize The Santa Cruz 70 WESTERLY coming off the starting line flying her Uni-Titanium No. 3 and X-Drive mainsail. The trimaran DRAGON is just to leeward. These two boats had a great…
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THE FINE ART OF MAKING TREES
View fullsize Tim Wright/Photoaction.com images View fullsize View fullsize Ensign Padin? BY Buttons Padin While in the Navy, we junior officers of the deck would monitor approaching ships…
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SAFER, FASTER AND EASIER BOTTOM SANDING
Sanding bottom paint is one of the least enjoyable elements of our sport, but it is a necessary evil for boats that are not dry sailed. With a lot of people about to go into the boat yard…
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