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…
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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. …
MENZNER ON GETTING GOOD STARTS
The online sailing magazine NO FRILLS SAILING ran a terrific interview with Martin Menzner on successful starting strategies last March. Menzner brings up a lot of good points about how to get safe starts and top starts. I have always…