By Darren Seltzer who is sailing around the world with his wife Amanda on their Amel Sharki, a 39-foot ketch. For those seeking to venture further than the local marinas or mooring fields, anchoring will become a necessary and vital…
Asymmetrical spinnakers require more active trimming than symmetrical spinnakers when surfing in any kind of waves. The key is to trim the spinnaker sheet tighter as the bow goes down the face of the wave. As the boat slides down…
View fullsize Perhaps the most challenging race to Hawaii is the 2120-mile Singlehanded TransPac from San Francisco to Kauai. (UK Sailmakers is a longtime co-sponsor of this event). UK Sailmakers’ own Brendan Huffman recently completed his first solo sailing to…
The father and son team of Lars and John Kämpfe won the 650-mile Round Denmark Race 2021 in doublehanded division sailing their older 26-foot Dragonfly 800 trimaran named TRI. This was a race cursed by light air that got dubbed…
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