View fullsize Ken Horne’s J/105 FINAL FINAL racing upwind with her UK Titanium class jib and dacron class main. There is a circle of life for sailing that we’ve all unconsciously experienced in our own way. It starts when you’re…
View fullsize Perhaps it is because people are becoming increasingly time-poor, or because it neatly side-steps the problem of keeping a large crew together, but one area of offshore racing undeniably gaining popularity is shorthanded racing. In fact, World Sailing…
View fullsize The Swan 36 FINOLA (GBR 23806) and the S&S 41 WINSOME (NED 118) on the starting line of the 2019 RORC Channel Race. By Graham Curran, UK Sailmakers IrelandWalking through the Arrivals gates at Dublin Airport after the…
By Buttons PadinIn baseball, players get traded today and are starting with a new team the next day. At first you wonder how they can integrate that quickly into a new team; however, if you’re a second baseman, you know…
View fullsize Jim Lincoln, UK Sailmakers’ representative in Long Beach, California, passed away in his sleep at the age of 61 in Hawaii after finishing the 2019 Transpac race first in class on the classic wooden ketch CHUBASCO. Jim was…