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THE MEXICAN — KIWI STYLE

View fullsize On April 9, UK Sailmakers on our website posted an instructional How-To article about how to execute a Mexican spinnaker takedown. Click HERE. As an aside at the end of that article, we recounted the popular lore that…

SV PANDA CHANGE OF COURSE

View fullsize Here’s a post from Sailing SV Panda, a 39-foot Amel Sharki that is on an around the world voyage. Check out their Facebook page and YouTube site, which is Sailing SV Panda. We have heard the old saying,…

PAYING IT BACK — NOT FORWARD

View fullsize By Buttons Padin, Co-chair of the Robie Pierce Regattas and UK Sailmakers’ marketing advisor We like to think that volunteers who organize and run regattas for sailors with disabilities are “paying it forward,” meaning that if it were…

NEW ANIMATED RULES QUIZ POSTED

UK Sailmakers just posted an animated rules quiz that deal with rules 18.3, 17, 16.1 and 13. This quiz is an example of how UK Sailmakers will be reviving our popular Rules Program that was sold in the past for…