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Race results, technique, podcast episodes, and news from the lofts — performance, design, and the people behind both.

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Two young sailors hiking a Flying Ant dinghy hard, crew stretched out over the water, UK Sailmakers logo on the main

RESULTS

Flying Ants: Small Champions With A Big Win

View fullsize 0 0 1 341 1946 SIENN USA, LLC 16 4 2283 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Congratulations to Jeremy Kaputin and Isaac Pringle for winning the 2015/2016…

March 5, 2016

Oscar Mead on deck in a white top and black sailing salopettes, framed by rigging

LOFT NEWS

Oscar Mead joins UK Sailmakers as sales and service agent in the UK

View fullsize 0 0 1 306 1747 SIENN USA, LLC 14 4 2049 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE Oscar Mead, a well-known sailor on England’s south coast, has been appointed as the…

March 5, 2016

Luka 30 with Porsche Finance Group hull lettering sailing upwind under grey UK Sailmakers laminate sails

COMPANY

Luka 30: Sport Boat Speed with Cruising Comforts

View fullsize 0 0 1 280 1597 SIENN USA, LLC 13 3 1874 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE UK Sailmakers in the Ukraine, one of the group’s newest lofts, has made sails for an…

March 5, 2016

Orange-cornered storm trysail set on SOLUTION with the main furled on the boom, crew in red jackets on the rail

TECHNIQUE

Lesson Learned: how to trim a trysail

View fullsize PHOTO 1. Sheeting the trysail with sheets led to the spinnaker blocks on the after quarter. 0 0 1 214 1224 SIENN USA, LLC 10 2 1436 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA…

March 5, 2016

Yacht F347 running downwind under a grey mainsail and grey asymmetric spinnaker at Geographe Bay Race Week

RESULTS

UK Sailmakers Customs Stand Out at Club Marine’s Geographe Bay Race Week 2016

View fullsize The Beneteau First 34.7 DYNAMIC saying deep in heavy air with her UK Sailmakers A3. (BUSSELTON, WA Feb 14-19, 2016) Western Australia’s premier keel boat regatta was sailed on…

March 5, 2016

Smiling young sailor in a blue Spirit of Hungary jacket beside a furled sail at the dockside

RESULTS

Alone Around Powered by UK

View fullsize 0 0 1 593 3386 SIENN USA, LLC 28 7 3972 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Young New Zealand-American sailor Conrad Colman is out to be the first sailor to finish…

March 5, 2016

Yacht running under a red, white and blue spinnaker printed with the Antigua flag, crew on the foredeck

RESULTS

SLEEPER TAKES TOP PRIZE AT ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK

View fullsize Jonty Layfield’s CS40, SLEEPER/U-GO scored eight straight race wins to win CSA 8, the Best Antiguan and Caribbean Boat in Start Boat B and the prestigious Lord Nelson Trophy…

November 18, 2015

Close-up of a dark mainsail's leech telltale window and batten pockets, seen at an angle

COMPANY

Sailing to Telltales

No indicator has been developed that approaches the sensitivity and effectiveness of telltales along the luff of the jib. These yarns or “ticklers” monitor the flow of wind across the sail.…

November 13, 2015

CHRISTOPHER DRAGON heeled hard upwind under a black headsail, crew stacked on the rail and spray off the bow

RESULTS

STANDOUT SEASON FOR CHRISTOPHER DRAGON

View fullsize Andrew and Linda Weiss’s Sydney 43 CHRISTOPHER DRAGON has been having a standout 2015 season on the East Coast of the USA. She won two distance races, was first in her IRC…

March 8, 2015

Collage: PIKE's winning crew on the podium, a close-up of its Titanium jib, and PIKE pulling away from the fleet

RESULTS

UK SAILMAKERS HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

View fullsize UK Sailmakers’ customers have been having some wonderful results this spring around the world. In Europe, Claus Lehmann won the J/70 Class at the Primo Cup in France, Tom…

March 8, 2015

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

RESULTS

VIDEO RULES QUESTION

This video was shot by Sailing World at the 2015 NOOD Regatta and shows an incident at a windward mark involving two Beneteau First 40.7s. One boat is yelling, “No Room! Don’t go in there!”…

March 8, 2015

Arcona 380 sailing under grey laminate mainsail and genoa, Swedish flag at the stern, wooded shore behind

COMPANY

UK POWERS FIRST ZERO EMISSIONS YACHT

Arcona Yachts of Sweden, Oceanvolt Electric Engines of Finland, and UK Sailmakers have teamed up to create the first zero emissions cruising sailboat: the Arcona 380Z, where the “Z” stands…

February 18, 2015

Dark-hulled race yacht hard on the wind under black Uni-Titanium sails, crew hiking on the rail through a bow wave

COMPANY

UNI-TITANIUM UPDATE

Another impressive result came recently at the 2014 ORC World Championship, where Heinz-Peter Schmidt’s GP 42 NEO SILVA team earned a Bronze medal in the hard fought Class A. Schmidt and…

November 10, 2014

Crew in a red jacket reaches a pole and yellow line down to a swimmer in an orange survival suit alongside

COMPANY

SUCCESSFUL CREW OVERBOARD RECOVERIES REQUIRE PRACTICE, PRACTICE, AND PRACTICE

Lessons learned by Adam Loory, General Manager, UK Sailmakers International For more than 10 years I have been teaching sailors about how to rescue a man overboard. It was not until this…

November 10, 2014

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