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’ Clear Lake Racing Association.…
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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. Her No. 1 genoa has no…
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 Townsend, Washington north to Ketchikan, Alaska, where the first-to-finish…
RACING IN A GALE, A FIRST HAND STORY
By Morten ChristensenThis 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 conditions as they were racing in a gale most…
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 when the rules got a major overhaul…