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| August 2, 2010 TWO RUNAWAY J/105 VICTORIES: DAMIAN EMERY WINS EAST COASTS AND PETER & DOUG MORGAN WIN MARBLEHEAD NOOD.  Peter and Doug Morgan’s STEEL AWAY III blasting away from a windward offset mark in the Marblehead NOOD.Tim Wilkes photo. Damian Emery, sailing ECLIPSE, dominated at the J/105 East Coast Championship that was sailed during the first part of the biennial New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport. Sailing in an extremely competitive 20-boat fleet, Emery beat the second place boat, KINC more | ||
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| August 2, 2010 UK-Halsey Wins Two Divisions of US IRC Nationals  Andrew Weis''s J/122 Christopher Dragon sailing up wind with her MatriX upwind sails. JH Peterson photo.The US IRC National Championship was sailed as part of the second half of the New York Yacht Club’s seventh biennial Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex and UK-Halsey customers won two of the five classes. Andrew Weiss’s CHRISTOPHER DRAGON (shown above) held onto her I more | ||
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| August 2, 2010 UK-HALSEY 1, 2, 3 IN THE DOUBLEHANDED DIVISION TO THE NEWPORT TO BERMUDA RACE  PALADIN sailing upwind with her MatriX No. 2 and five-year-old Tape-Drive mainsail. According to skipper Jason Richter, "I am very pleased with the performance of my UK-Halsey sails and their durability. They are definitely worth the investment. Daniel Forster/PPL photo.For the fifth race in a row, UK-Halsey customers have won the doublehanded division of the 630-mile Newport to Be more | ||
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| June 5, 2010 2010 Edlu Race  Tom Carroll’s J/133 crashing her way to a first-place finish in the 2010 Edlu Race in New York’s Long Island Sound. The first half of the race was sailed in light air run followed by a 30-35 knot beat home. Gusts to 45 knots were encountered by many boats and at least two boats finished with storm sails set.more | ||
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| June 5, 2010 J/80 WORLDS PREVIEW: NEW SAIL DESIGNS THAT HAVE BEEN REGATTA TESTED By UK-Halsey’s Kerry Klingler who is a past J/80 World Champion.  Competition in the J/80 class has heated up this year with new sailors joining the fleet with the upcoming North American and World Championships to be sailed in the northeast. All of a sudden, new racers and sail lofts have focused on the class and the sails. At UK-Halsey, we have not relaxed at all on our J/80 effort. In fact we are constantly striving to improve our sails by learning from our m more | ||
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| May 6, 2010 GETTING A NEW BOAT FOR THE COST OF A NEW SET OF SAILS  Cruising yachtsmen from around the world gather in George Town, Exumas in the Bahamas each winter for months of fun in the sun escaping the winter cold. Each year since 1980, for a week to ten days in February to March, they organize and hold the George Town Cruising Regatta where over 300 cruising boats fill Elizabeth Harbor. This year Tom and Sandy Stefan more | ||
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| May 6, 2010 AMERICAN YACHT CLUB’S SPRING SERIES: LONG ISLAND SOUND’S WAKE UP CALL  The 2010 big boat season officially started on Long Island Sound with the completion of the American Yacht Club’s Spring Series sailed the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May. Tom Carroll’s J/133 SIRENSONG dominated the nine-boat IRC 40 class with seven firsts in nine races. The boat was powered by a brand new MatriX Titanium genoa. Helmsman Bob Mor more | ||
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| March 30, 2010 LOCAL SAILING MAGAZINE WITH A NATIONAL SAILING MAGAZINE LOOK  The best way to see LI Sail is to browse the electronic magazine. In fact that is the only way to see LI Sail. You find LI Sail on the internet but it is no ordinary website. It is a new online flip book style magazine about sailing in Long Island waters. LI Sail is in its first year with eleven monthly issues published.LI Sail features stories on cruising, sailin more | ||
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| February 25, 2010 THE BEST WAY TO LEARN THE RACING RULES IS NOW EVEN BETTER  If you have been using the UK-Halsey animated rules quizzes on our web site, we now have more reasons for you to consider purchasing our Rules Quiz Program download. The newest addition to the program is our rules test, which is exclusive to the program. UK-Halsey’s chief rules guru, Charles “Butch” Ulmer, said, “We developed a multiple choice test designed to help sailors apply more | ||
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| December 18, 2009 GET MORE FOR YOUR CRUISING DOLLAR WITH PLATINUM-DRIVE  Sails can be expensive, so durability is key to getting your money’s worth. The corollary that cheap sails are not durable is just as true. Just ask Larry Rouen, the owner of the Dawn 41 NEPENTHE. He ordered sails in 1997, just before two of his teenagers were getting ready to go off to college. He said that he needed sails that would last eight years – the time it would take th more | ||
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| December 18, 2009 IRC SEASON CHAMPIONS  UK-Halsey was the exclusive sailmaker for the three boats that took the top IRC championship trophies on Long Island Sound. The biggest IRC fleet in the USA is on The Sound. Tom Carroll’s J/133 SIRENSONG won the Caper Trophy which is awarded by the Yacht Racing Association to the IRC season champion. Second and third were won by two Express 37s that use full UK-Halsey inventories: A more | ||
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| December 18, 2009 UK-HALSEY DOMINATES J/80S IN NORTH AMERICA  As you might already know, UK-Halsey has been a leader in J/80 sails in the USA. This year has been a banner year for UK-Halsey New York’s Kerry Klingler, who has been designing, making and racing J/80s for over 10 years. 2009 started off with John Storck winning Key West Race Week. John’s speed was second to none. He consistently sailed the same speed and higher than the competitio more | ||
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| October 28, 2009 LIFTED TAKES 2009 J/80 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP  (Lakewood YC, Seabrook, TX , Oct 23-25) This year’s 2009 North Americans did not lack for competition as the fleet includes four North American champions and three world champions in the 26-boat fleet. Past J/80 World Champion Kerry Klingler won the North Americans for third time in the last four years sailing LIFTED. His team included Doug Lynn, Bob Miller and Chris Fortin. This regatta was the e more | ||
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| October 28, 2009 COLLEGE OFFSHORE REGATTA SPECTACULAR  UK-Halsey was a proud sponsor of the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta run by the Storm Trysail Foundation and Larchmont Yacht Club in early October. This regatta has grown to become the largest college sailing event in the USA. Three hundred twenty seven college sailors from 31 schools raced on 40 boats that were divided into three one-design classes and two closely-rated IRC classes. The boats ra more | ||
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| September 16, 2009 STORM AND MOTHER NATURE BLOW THROUGH THE J/109 NORTH AMERICANS  Rick Lyall’s STORM dominated the 14-boat 2009 J1/09 North Americans, which were sailed as part of the Chicago Yacht Club’s Verve Cup Regatta. Boats came from California, Texas, Connecticut and Wisconsin to compete against local Chicago teams. STORM beat the second-place boat by 10 points and the third place boat by 23 points.Without getting a direct “no” from his wife when he first bro more | ||
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| September 16, 2009 J/80 SUCCESSES: GREAT RESULTS START WITH GREAT SAILS  Kerry Klingler skippering J/80 LIFTED, with a team of Doug Lynn, Bob Miller and Chris Fortin, dominated the 2009 Buzzards Bay regatta with four firsts, and two seconds (their throwout was a fourth). The key to their dominance was speed. Kerry has been sailing and working on J/80 sails for 10 years. “Recent changes in the sails along with better tuning has led to our dominance,” said Kerry. “This i more | ||
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| August 11, 2009 NEW RULES QUIZ RELEASED  UK-Halsey has just completed a new rules quiz and it is now posted on the UK-Halsey website. It can also be downloaded by the owners of the Animated Rules Quiz Program. Quiz 27 deals with boats converging on a starting line, and it is based upon US Sailing Appeal #36. You will need to know how this case was decided if you enter a crowded starting line! If a protest committee can get it wrong, you more | ||
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| August 11, 2009 THE US SAILING APPEALS BOOK FOR 2009-2012  The hard copy of the US SAILING APPEALS BOOK FOR 2009-2012 is now available from the UK-Halsey Store. The book contains both the US Sailing Appeals and the ISAF Casebook for 2009-2012.“During many of the rules seminars I''ve given, I joked about having the rule book on my bedside table just in case I had trouble getting to sleep. It is not very exciting reading! Not so with the Appeals Boo more | ||
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| June 5, 2009 UK-HALSEY CUSTOMERS CLEAN UP IN PROMINENT DISTANCE RACE  UK-Halsey powered boats finished first in four classes and second in two more classes of the 2009 Block Island Race. UK-Halsey boats were either first or second in all but two of the eight classes. This annual Memorial Day weekend distance race runs 185 miles from Stamford, Connecticut, out Long Island Sound, around Block Island and back. This year was a fast race: the wind only fla more | ||
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| February 4, 2009 STORCK FAMILY DOMINATES J/80 FLEET AT KEY WEST  John Stork, Jr., sailing with his son John and daughter Kaity, won the J/80 one-design class at Key West Race Week for the second year in a row. It does not hurt that both kids are college all-Americans. Rounding out the crew were Mandi Markee, a college All American crew and local Huntington sailor Dave Waldo. Last year Kaity drove the boat and this year it was the younger John’s tu more | ||
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| December 29, 2008 NEW RULES – NEW RULES QUIZ PROGRAM  UK-Halsey is taking pre-orders for our Updated Rules Quiz program, the ideal holiday gift for the racing sailor. The new program offers more than just an update to the new rules. Yes, some of the quiz answers have changed because of the 2009 rule changes. Yes, some of the animations have been redone to reflect such things as the change from a two-boatlength zone to the t more | ||
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| October 21, 2008 LATEST REVISIONS OF RACING RULES OF SAILING - BRINGS EXPERT TO ON-LINE BLOG  Butch Ulmer, President of UK-Halsey International, has created a new blog to help racing sailors understand the new yacht racing rules that go into effect at the beginning of 2009. Because of new definitions and, especially, new requirements at turning marks where the majority of protests occur, Ulmer anticipated the confusion likely to occur and will be answering questions on-line f more | ||
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| October 21, 2008 UK-HALSEY SAILMAKERS SPONSORS LARGEST COLLEGIATE REGATTA IN THE USA  Larchmont, NY -- Just when it seemed the annual Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta couldn’t get any bigger, it breezed into Larchmont Yacht Club on Columbus Day Weekend to increase its participants from last year’s count of 235 college sailors to a whopping 318 and its borrowed-boat fleet from 31 to 36. In fact, the regatta has grown so much, with 29 different colleges and universities more | ||
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| June 19, 2008 In this case, it IS Rocket Science  Julien Dougherty''s Beneteau 36.7 TENACIOUS flying downwind with her symmetrical spinnaker. Allen Clark/Photoboat.com photo. At this year’s 185-mile Block Island Race, two grand prix behemoths were challenged in the overall standings by a J/120 owned by Rick Oricchio named ROCKET SCIENCE. She came third in fleet and first in class, with not a single pro aboard in a fleet that topp more | ||
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| June 19, 2008 RACE COMMITTEE FLAG KITS AVAILABLE  UK-Halsey Sailmakers now offers a set of code flags made especially for Race Committees. These flags are large enough to be easily seen, light enough to fly in light air, and durable enough to stand up to Race Committee use. They are sewn flags, not printed. Large grommets make attaching the flags to your halyards easy. These flags were designed by an active PRO for race committee use.This more | ||
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| June 5, 2007 ON BECOMING A SPRIT BOAT  Designed in 1984, the Express 37 was way ahead of her time in construction as well as in design. The boats have been very competitive under an assortment of rules including PHRF, IMS, Americap and now IRC because they were not designed to any rule. After 22 years of hard racing, the boats are still tough as nails. In fact, Richard duMoulin’s LORA ANN was one of only three boats to f more | ||
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About the Loft
Welcome to UK-Halsey, City Island -- the original home of UK Sailmakers. The loft was founded by Charles and Charlotte Ulmer in 1946 as Ulmer Sails; their son Charles (Butch) Ulmer and Butch’s son-in-law, Kerry Klingler now own and operate the loft. This loft is a true family business with extensive ties to the Long Island Sound community. Whether you use your boat for cruising, daysailing, or racing -- on the Sound or across oceans, our staff will help you get great sails and service. We have decades of experience making sturdy Dacron cruising sails as well as performance cruising and high-tech racing Tape-Drive sails. For repairs, our service department prides itself in getting sails fixed the same week that you bring them during the summer months. We don’t want you losing precious weekends on the water. Our staff has decades of experience, click on the link below for pictures and biographies. |
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Loft History The City Island loft is the largest loft in in the New York metropolitan area and is equipped to handle any of your sailmaking needs. Besides new sails, the loft repairs, cleans and stores a few thousand sails. Each Fall and Winter and make arrangements to pick up and deliver sails throughout the greater New York City area. |
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