 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.
Man
Overboard Drill Video
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November 4, 2025
UK-HALSEY CONTINUES TO EXPAND: LEFEBVRE SAILS IN BELGIUM JOINS THE GROUP
Michel Lefebvre has run Lefebvre Sails in Oostende, Belgium, for the last 32 years with a lot of dynamism and know-how. He is assisted by his son Michel Lefebvre, Jr., and a professional team. Michel Lefebvre sailed Olympic classes and continued in bigger boats. Michel had a lot of national and international victories in classes such as Formule 40, Mumm 36, B25, Dragon, Half Tonner a more |
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September 16, 2025
GET ORGANIZED FOR RACING WITH FREE UK-HALSEY SOFTWARE  Your racing program was meant to be enjoyable, weekend fun with your family and friends. But too often you struggle to organize enough crew and equipment to be effective on the racecourse and your team never seems to develop and gel. When race day more |
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September 16, 2025
Featured Loft of the Month
UK-Halsey Spain
 Andy Longerela�s loft in Malaga, Spain, is very close to the Strait of Gibraltar, which makes it strategically located to give service and assistance to the boats arriving or leaving the Mediterranean. It is also key in UK-Halsey�s America�s Cup work now that the Cup will be battled for in Spain.
The loft has 600 sq/m of clear-span floor and all the modern tools fo more |
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September 16, 2025
QUARTER TON CUP WINNER POWERED BY TAPE-DRIVE
After going through a three-year refit, the brightly finished Quarter Tonner, PURPLE HAZE won the 14-boat Quarter Ton Cup last June and two days later went out and won the 555-boat IRC division in the Around the Isle of Wight race. Neither was an easy fete.
Built in 1978 PURPLE HAZE was designed by the renowned David Thomas. Tony Dodd has owned the boat for three more |
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September 16, 2025
SPECTRA TAPE-DRIVE: A BARGIN IN THE LONG RUN
Nine years ago, New York-based cruising sailor Larry Rouen needed to replace his 11-year-old Dacron sails. His Frers-designed Dawn 41 was not sailing well and constant sail repairs were becoming a bother. As a long-time sailor who has raced and cruised on many boats, he wanted performance oriented sails, but he needed sails that would last eight years since he was just about to put more |
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September 16, 2025
CIRCUMNAVIGATOR'S COMMENTS ON A CRUISING SAIL INVENTORY
In last month�s newsletter, we reviewed Laurie Pane�s book CHASING SUNSETS: A PRACTICING DEVOUT COWARD�S CIRCUMNAVIGATION. The book is a great read for armchair sailors and potential world cruisers looking for information from someone who has �been there and done that.
Laurie writes about the sails he used in the following article exclusively for the UK-Halsey Online Newslett more |
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September 16, 2025
DEDICATION TO EXCELLENCE WINS ONE-DESIGN LOYALTY
UK-Halsey Texas�s Pedro Gianotti was copied on a letter one of his Soling customers sent to another Soling owner. The letter speaks volumes for the attention to detail made by UK-Halsey. This letter is reproduced with permission.
Dear Scot,
I am happy to give you the feedback you request. I sail at club level among a fleet of 20 Solings (Cercle de la Voile d more |
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September 16, 2025
MUMM 30 EUROPEANS Following up some great finishes in the Tour de France a Voile, which was sailed in Mumm 30s, the only Mumm 30 with UK-Halsey Sails finished second at the Mumm 30 European Championships sailed in Italy. The wind blew 10-14 knots mostly, with a few light and heavy air races to keep the fleet honest.
The regatta was a good test for boatspeed and consequently a good more |
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September 16, 2025
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET � NOT REALLY
BUT AN F31 TRIMARAN WAS FASTER THAN A SANTA CRUZ 70
Juan Hussong of Ensenada Mexico sailing his Corsair 31 DREI in the Newport Beach to San Diego ended up sailing the 65-mile course 11 minutes and 45 seconds faster than the Santa Cruz 70 MILUSKA. The little boat was truly a dragon slayer.
Luis Gianotti of UK-Halsey San Diego sailed on the boat and wrote the following story: It was very light at the start so we reache more |
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September 16, 2025
DON'T ARGUE WITH IDIOTS BECAUSE THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL AND THEN BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE.
That''s just the lesson the skipper of a Farr 395 used while sailing in the Larchmont NOOD regatta last weekend. He was sailing to round the leeward mark that was 50 yards to windward of the finish line. J/109s were in the same water sailing toward the finish line. The Farr was the leeward boat sailing a higher course as he converged with a slower J/109. The skipper of the Farr hail more |
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