View fullsize Oscar Mead, a well-known sailor on England’s south coast, has been appointed as the Sales and Service agent for UK Sailmakers in the United Kingdom. Oscar is probably best known as the youngest-ever finisher in the legendary OSTAR…
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 for best performance in the regatta. Layfield said, “I…
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.
Telltales are used for fine tuning your genoa sheet trim and to fine-tune the course you are steering. Telltales are only an aid when the sail has wind flow across both sides, i.e., when sailing angles between beating and beam reaching. When sailing lower than a beam reach, the sail is catching wind instead of working like an airfoil.
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 class at the New York Yacht…
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 Durcan won the 1720 Irish National Championship. The A35…