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| VOILES SAINT-TROPEZ 2008 |
At the Voiles de Saint Tropez (ex-Nioularge) a couple UK-Halsey's customers did outstandingly well. In IRC B, the biggest class in the regatta with 42 boats , Guy Curnillon's SLY 42 CACHOU IV finished second. This is a fantastic result considering that the boat was brand new for the regatta. This tough class included five Swan 45s, three Swan 42s, and many well-prepared boats such as IMX 45, Vismara 46, Farr 40, Sydney 46, First 50, Grand Soleil 50, etc. For the event CACHOU IV was sporting a brand new set of UK Titanium sails. Congratulations to Guy Curnillon and his crew!
In IRC D, only one point separated the Spanish Archambault 35 REBUFF from the second another A35 named TCHIN-TCHIN, which finished 20 points ahead of the third place finisher. The two A35s were that far ahead of the rest of the fleet. A grand bravo to the skipper and crew for once again leading TCHIN-TCHIN to the top of the charts race after race. TCHIN-TCHIN sports UK Titanium sails. |
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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 from those who seek clarification. This comes in addition to UK-Halsey’s highly regarded web-based “Rules Quizzes” whose animations have helped countless sailors avoid protest situations and to be absolved when called into “The Room”; UK-Halsey’s free instructional animations will be upgraded to illustrate the rules, with emphasis on pointing out the important changes.
The blog will have guest posts from Rules experts. Rob Overton, one of the authors of the new rules has already posted on what is meant by “to the mark” and “at the mark” in the new version of Rule 18. To read the blog, use the link on the UK-Halsey home page or click here. |
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NEW BOOK ON THE 2009-2012 RULES NOW FOR SALE AT UK-HALSEY STORE
The Rules in Practice: 2009-20012 by Bryan Willis. |
 International Judge Bryan Willis a offers unique book with an emphasis on explaining what your options are in a given tactical situation instead of just explaining the rules. This book is replete with the typical boat-to-boat encounters we see in every race and Willis puts you in each boat and then explains what you can (and cannot) do and what you should (and should not) do. At the close of each explanation, he cites the rule numbers that pertain. Willis was Chairman of the Jury for the Sydney Olympics and Chairman of the Jury and Chief Umpire for the last three editions of the America's Cup.
“I recently came across a new racing rules book written by Bryan Willis that I highly recommend,” says UK-Halsey’s rules expert Butch Ulmer. “My rules bible has always been Dave Perry's book and while that allegiance will not change, I suspect that I'll be referring to this book regularly, particularly before sailing in major regattas.”
Paperback, 152 pages. Price: $29.95.
Click here to buy Willis’ book.
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TURNING AROUND AQUILA
By Roger Passmore, Owner and Skipper |
“Sailing in an ocean race off Fremantle, Western Australia, I was impressed by the shape of the sails on CREWS CONTROL, which got well ahead of us. Despite being 0.3m longer than my boat (a Northshore 369, 11.22m LOA), she had a lower IRC rating. Once again, we finished with a rather low placing and that C&C 115 had beaten us again.
“Following a torrid return race from Geraldton (220nm) early in the season, AQUILA needed a new main as well as other sail replacements. I got a competitive quote from UK-Halsey, whose sailmaker in Western Australia – Geoff Bishop – offered to help improve our rating as well as our boat speed.
“In addition to having the boat weighed, and finding the actual weight was 170kg heavier than the boat-builder’s spec., on Geoff’s advice the new sails were made with slightly less area. The revised IRC certificate showed a reduction of 0.011 to a realistic 1.060. Now we would be more competitive.
Geoff came sailing with AQUILA for the four-race “Valmadre” winter series 2008. He provided valuable instruction to the crew (and skipper) in sail trim and competitive sailing. A significant edge was added to crew work and helming. The result was a very welcome second place overall, in a fleet of keenly-sailed boats. Even in the light airs, AQUILA was faster than before, notwithstanding the reduced area of the new sails.
Well done UK-Halsey and the excellent service provided by Geoff Bishop. I’m sure that other competitors noticed the improved performance by AQUILA and may be asking for a similar service.” |
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| NEWS FROM UK-HALSEY ITALY |
 NONNA MIRTA ESTEREFATTA continues her striking series of successes. Giovanni Passeggeri's Este24 (with Attilio Cozzani at the helm) started racing with UKH sails in the summer of 2007 and right away she grabbed second in the national championship. Since then, she started racing in many IRC venues in La Spezia Gulf, and these are the results:
- "Regate di Primavera" (La Spezia, Feb 17th and mar 8th): 1st IRC in her group (Minialtura), 3rd IRC absolute
- "Trofeo Città di Lerici" (La Spezia, May 18th): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Coppa Maralunga" (La Spezia, June 7-8th): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Trofeo Beniamino" (Marina di Carrara, June 15th): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Trofeo M. Fiorillo" (La Spezia, July 6th): 1st IRC Minialtura, 2nd IRC absolute
- "Rotta di Mezzo" (La Spezia, August 31st): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Coppa LNI" (La Spezia, Sept. 7th): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Trofeo Foce Magra" (Foce del Magra, Sept. 14th): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute
- "Trofeo Mariperman (La Spezia, Sept. 20th-21st): 1st IRC both Minialtura and absolute.
Este24 sails by UKH Italy are now at their third version. Their performance is the direct result of a continuous testing and optimizing by Attilio Cozzani who the loft’s sail designer for everything from small one-designs to large IRC boats. These Este24 sails can be put amongst his masterpieces.
MORE NEWS FROM UK-HALSEY ITALY
Last spring UKH's loft in La Spezia spent some months shaping and testing the new sails for Surprise class, a Hydranet crosscut mainsail and a Pentex crosscut genoa. Well, it was worth it: the 42nd Gorla Trophy saw Luca Uberti's FUORI ONDA showing great supremacy over the rest of the fleet.
The race starts from Bogliaco (mid-lake), passes close to Torbole (the northernmost point) and gets back to Bogliaco, for an approximate total of 40 miles. After the better known "Centomiglia", it is the second biggest sailing event on the Lake, both by importance and tradition. This year's edition has been raced in light winds from south. Thanks to the efforts made by the crew - and some luck of course! FUORI ONDA succeeded to avoid the lulls that slowed the majority of the fleet in the first hours of the race and maintained a good position within the first third of the fleet. The wind then increased to about 15 knots and the boat passed the Torbole buoy at noon — some 200 meters after the first Surprise rounded the mark (CORIANDOLI).
During the long windward leg back to Bogliaco, UKH sails developed all their power and, in within 30 minutes FUORI ONDA caught up to and passed CORIANDOLI! At the finish line the gap between the two boats was about 15 minutes.
FUORI ONDA’s helmsman, noted: "I tried these new sails in a couple of brief occasions; I was pretty confident about the power they could develop, but I was unsure about the handling and pointing ability of such a powerful set of sails. This race proved I was wrong: the boat was always well balanced, even when the wind increased; on the "pointing" side of things, we've never been lower than the other boats or even slightly higher than them, and every time I stepped too high in the wind, it just took me to bear away no more than a fraction of degree to feel the boat accelerating promptly".
At prizegiving night, FUORI ONDA’s crew found out they won first place in their ORC group and class, for a total of three prizes. "Well, a very nice... Surprise", they stated. |
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| PALADIN WINS GEARBUSTER |
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| PALADIN sailing at the start of the 2006 Stamford-Vineyard race. |
Jason Richter sailing his J/35 PALADIN, won the IRC Division in the 2008 Gearbuster, a 46.5-mile distance race on Long Island Sound. Jason is well known in the doublehanded sailing community, but in this event he sailed fully-crewed.
“This crew has sailed together for two years on Wednesday nights and they stayed focused in this light air race. Our jib trimmer was constantly trimming in the small puffs and shifts,” said Richter. “The conditions, 4-8 knots of wind that turned out to be upwind in both directions, were perfect for us. We sailed faster than some boats that owed us time like the J/120s even though our largest headsail in a No. 2 since that is all the boat needs for doublehanding.”
Richter is a big fan of his UK-Halsey Tape-Drive sails. “Our main is five years old and it has thousands of miles of doublehanded racing on it — including this year’s upwind Newport to Bermuda race. The shape is still great and I’ve told a lot of people about the durability of my Tape-Drive sails. All our sails are at least three years old except for our new 'No. 2', which is two years old.
Forty-six boats sailed in five PHRF divisions and UK-Halsey customer Todd Avon won the doublehanded division for boats rating slower than 81 PHRF. Avon’s J/92 THIN MAN corrected over all the boats in the doublehanded division for PHRF boats racing faster than 80 as well. THIN MAN also took home second place overall for all the PHRF classes (the two doublehanded classes and three fully crewed classes).
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| UK-HALSEY SAILMAKERS SPONSORS LARGEST COLLEGIATE REGATTA IN THE USA |
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| The J/109 STORM sailed by Mass. Maritme was the overall winner. |
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 competing this year, that long-time host Larchmont Yacht Club officially joined forces with the event’s organizer, the Storm Trysail Club (STC), to run what has become the largest college sailing regatta in the country based on the number of participants.
And bigger definitely meant better when the owners again sailed on board the borrowed boats as coaches. Past Commodore of The Storm Trysail Club and UK-Halsey customer, Richard du Moulin was very impressed by the University of Rhode Island’s team’s leadership and sailing skills, which had two crewmembers who sailed on Roy Disney’s TransPac 52 MORNING LIGHT in the 2008 TransPac. “I gave them some tips on how to sail my Express 37 LORA ANN upwind faster, but I sat back and took lessons watching them sail my asymmetrical rig downwind,” he said. “The MORNING LIGHT experience gave these kids incredible downwind steering technique, which is why we won four out of five races.”
The boats were divided into four one-design classes and one PHRF division. The largest division was the tight PHRF class that had 12 boats. The second largest class was the 11-boat J/105 class. The five class winners were: The United States Coast Guard Academy in the J/44 class; Georgetown University in the J/122 class; Massachusetts Maritime in the J/109 class; University of Rhode Island in the PHRF class, and Cornell in the J/105 class. The overall winner (based on the best winning percentage) of the five-race regatta was Mass. Maritime, sailing Rick Lyall’s J/109 STORM.
The race management, headed by UK-Halsey’s President Butch Ulmer, could have been used as a clinic on how to run the perfect multi-class regatta. Five races were sailed over two days in shifty light easterlies that died as the days went on. All the courses were windward-leeward twice around and the windward mark was moved each race for the second beat because of the shifty breeze. Frequently, there were classes starting to the left of the committee boat as others were finishing on the right of the boat. Getting the races off quickly was the key to completing three races on Sunday, because the wind shut off just as the last race was finishing.
For complete race results, photos and more information, visit http://stormtrysail.org/Pages/2008-Intercollegiate-Regatta/2008-Intercollegiate-Main.html
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 We thought UK-Halsey would like to see how impressed this crane was with our UK-Halsey sails on the 2008 Chicago to Mackinac race!!! Light winds did not help our Dufour 44 to win that race. but shortly afterwards, BEARLY MOVIN' won its division in Michigan Clipper Cup race and finished second overall. The boat that won this race across Lake Michigan, QUE LOCO, also sails with UK-Halsey sails. The sails on both boats were made by UK-Halsey Chicago and sold by Jerry Mayfield in Holland, Michigan.
— Regards, Lisa Ruoff - BEARLY MOVIN' |
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