AVOIDING UNFORCED ERRORS
Many races, both handicap and one-design, are won or lost by a handful of seconds. A good way to insure you’re not on the losing side is to avoid “Unforced Errors.” These are errors we make on our own…not when…
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HUGE TEST PLATFORM
The Santa Cruz 70 WESTERLY going upwind with her X-Drive main and Tape-Drive No. 2 genoa. A big boat makes a great test platform for sails. Stuart and Joy Dahlgren are the owners of UK Sailmakers Northwest as well as…
HUBO WINS DUTCH IRC CHAMPIONSHIP
View fullsize Congratulations to Erik Van Vurren and his crew on the bright yellow Waarschip 36 HUBO for winning Class 2 of the Dutch IRC Championship and for being crowned the overall Dutch IRC Champion. The regatta was sailed in…
Just Because It Has Three Corners Does Not Make It A Sail
View fullsize J/33 SIRIUS sailing with her new X-Drive Carbon main. Charles Taus bought an X-Drive genoa for his J/33 SIRIUS in 2017 from UK Sailmakers New York and noticed an immediate jump in performance. But during 2018 he noticed…
VICTORIES IN THE NORTH SEA
UK Sailmakers Norway’s customers won two of the three fully crewed divisions in the first half to the 2018 Pantanius Shetland Race. Leg one was 194-miles from Bergen, Norway, across the North Sea to Lerwick Harbour, in the Shetland Islands. …