In
an effort to promote safe sailing, UK-Halsey will be running
a number of streaming video clips and instructional text
on safety at sea techniques on our web site. Click on the
below link
to see the first episode that shows the perfect technique
for doing a Quick Stop man overboard recovery while the spinnaker
is flying.
December 14, 2025 THUNDERBIRD INTERNATIONALS WON WITH UK-HALSEY Vidas Stukas of Victoria, Canada, won the Thunderbird Internationals in Boston this summer using a full inventory of UK-Halsey Northwest sails. Sailing a chartered boat, Vidas and his crew won 5 of 11 races. This regatta win was the culmination of more than 20 years of racing and fine-tuning in the T-Bird class. Normally Vidas sails his immaculately prepared #642 more
December 14, 2025 Holiday Sale -- Call For Express Shipping Costs Great Discounts On UK Logo Gear just in time for the holidays. UK Sailmakers is putting many of the items in our online store on sale. Check out these discounts:
Striped UK Polo shirts: list price $36, sale price $22 While supplies last, solid polo shirts: list price $32 reduced to $20 UK Hats: List price $12, sale price $6 Fleece Pullovers: List price $60, sale price $ more
December 14, 2025 Olympic Gold, Super Yacht and America's Cup Experience added to UK- Halsey Group Dede De Luca
The Farr 95 Dhbolina on her shake down off Cape Town, South Africa. UK-Halsey is pleased to announce a major new addition to the UK Halsey group. Dede De Luca of Halsey Italy, whose sails won the Olympic Gold medal in Star Class signed up while in the USA sailing in the Melges 24 Worlds. De Luca�s loft in Verona, Italy not only has a strong one-design progra more
November 4, 2025 AMERICA'S CUP SAILS BY UK-HALSEY UK-Halsey Sailmakers has been building sails for the China Team�s America�s Cup challenge since the spring, and these sails have been a true group effort. Sylvain Barrielle of our loft in San Francisco is the UK-H coordinator of the project. He has almost 20 years of America�s Cup experience; this is his fifth campaign with French teams.The China Team represents the Qingdao International Y more
November 4, 2025 UK-HALSEY CANADA AND THE LIDGARD LOFTS IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONSOLIDATE To better serve sailors in the Pacific Northwest, UK-Halsey Sailmakers in Sydney, B.C., and the Lidgard lofts in Seattle and Anacortes, have formed one company. This is great news for all sailors in the Seattle area who dealt long distance with the UK-Halsey loft on Vancouver Island. Now, with local service and support, UK-Halsey�s business in the Northwest will flourish. more
November 4, 2025 ANDY HALSEY REPORTS ON SAILING A 140-FOOTER IN THE SUPER YACHT CUP Sailing and/or racing on a super yacht is just like sailing on any other boat - only bigger: everything is much, much bigger. On REBECCA, a 140'' Frers ketch I recently raced on in Palma de Mallorca for the Super Yacht Cup, the head reinforcement patch on the mainsail is the same size as a J-24 mainsail. The front mast asymmetric spinnaker is 11,789 sq feet. It seems more
November 4, 2025 UK-HALSEY SAILS DOMINATE IN J/109'S Al Minella (center) receiving the Thompson Trophy from John Thompson and PRO Sue Miller. Andrea Watson photo.
UK-Halsey continued to dominate the J/109 class on Long Island Sound by taking all the trophies in the J/109 one-design class at the windy Manhasset Bay Fall Series. UK-Halsey customers swept the awards in the J/109 more
November 4, 2025 10 YEARS AND 31,000 MILES: TIME FOR NEW SAILS Lynn and Larry Pardey are synonymous with circumnavigating on simple boats. Learn more about the Pardeys at www.landlpardey.com
Circumnavigators Lynn and Larry Pardey are steady customers of UK-Halsey in Cork, Ireland. They bought their last set of Dacron sails in 1996; after 10 year more
November 4, 2025 UK FRANCE REPORTS AWESOME SEASON FOR THREE BENETEAUS New to racing in 2001, Cyril Baillie, owner of SAYANN has shown amazing tenacity and focus. His talent was fully revealed during the 2005 IMS/IRC season. The first serious race Cyril and his crew won this year was Porquerolles Week, which was soon followed by many top results. SAYANN just won the French Mediterranean Beneteau Cup at Voiles de St Tropez but also scored 1st Beneteau 40.7 at Rolex Gi more
November 4, 2025 FEATURED LOFT: ANDY HALSEY�S OWN LOFT UK-HALSEY MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT It has been a busy year for UK-Halsey�s Mystic (CT) loft. In January the loft�s designer, John Fries, won his PHRF division at Key West Race Week and then followed up with a class win at Block Island Race Week sailing his Evelyn 32 REMEDY. His boat is an on-going test platform for new sail designs. At Block Island, the boat�s asymmetrical spinnakers proved to be race winners. &nb; more
In
an effort to promote safe sailing, UK-Halsey will be running
a number of streaming video clips and instructional text
on safety at sea techniques on our web site. Click on the
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