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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…
LOFT NEWS
Oscar Mead joins UK Sailmakers as sales and service agent in the UK
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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…
TECHNIQUE
Lesson Learned: how to trim a trysail
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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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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!”…
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…
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…
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…
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