 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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August 24, 2025
TWO CHICAGO TO MACKINAC RACE STORIES
FIRST TIME MAC AND FIRST PLACE FINISH
By Luis Gianotti, UK-Halsey Southern California
I�ve wanted to do this race since 1996 and it looked like in 2005 I would keep the idea on my wish list for yet another year. But three days before the race I was talking with Pat Considine of UK-Halsey Chicago and I asked him if he needed an extra crewmember. He said that the Santa Cruz more |
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August 24, 2025
FIVE YEAR-OLD TAPE-DRIVE SAILS STILL WINNING
On Long Island Sound, two different J/120s won distance races this July. Larchmont Yacht
Club Rear Commodore Jan Smeets� BACCHANAL won her class and was first overall in IRC in
the 190-mile Around Long Island Race. She was also scored under PHRF where she finished
second in class and third in fleet. BACCHANAL�s sail inventory included a three-year-old
Tape-Drive main (pictured), a more |
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July 15, 2025
Marion to Bermuda Cruisers Race
Chris Streit�s FANDANGO, a Hinkley Bermuda 40 Mk III sloop, finished second in class in this year�s Marion to Bermuda race. She is shown on the starting line with her Tape-Drive main with vertical leech battens that�s partially furled into the mast. Also making his mark in the race was 92-year-old Jim Mertz of American Yacht Club who finished third in Class C, sailing his Beneteau 42 ALLEGRA. Mert more |
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July 15, 2025
IRC HELPS TO REBUILD OFFSHORE RACING. UK SAILMAKERS OFFERS TOOL TO HELP UNDERSTAND IRC
The IRC rating rule is catching on quickly in the United States; the number of certificates issued is surpassing all expectations. The Storm Trysail Club and many other prominent yacht clubs throughout the U.S. joined together to adopt the IRC rule to revive the sagging interest in offshore racing. The IRC rating is meant to be more user-friendly and less expensive than the moribund more |
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July 15, 2025
UK-Halsey Sails Storm to the Lead at Block Island Race Week
UK-Halsey customers compiled an impressive run of finishes in boats under 40-feet at Block Island Race Week. Four customers won their divisions and five more finished either second or third. This is just one more example of how UK-Halsey excels in making sails for the boats that a majority of sailors race.
Along with the individual wins, the Mystic River Mudhead Sa more |
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July 15, 2025
Rolex Transatlantic Challenge: Two Divisions Won by UK-Halsey Customers
After anchoring in foul tide just 4.8 miles from the finish line, Arthur Bugs Baer and William Hubbard III�s 80-foot (24.4m) ketch Tempest reached the Solent to take the handicap win in the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge�s Performance Cruising class 2.
"We could see it right there, but we couldn�t do anything," commented Baer, adding that it could have been a lot worse. � more |
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July 15, 2025
UK-Halsey Boats Take 1st, 2nd and 5th In the One Stage of the Tour de France
Just like its cycling namesake, the Tour de Francep� la Voile is a long grueling month-long event made up of offshore distance races and buoy races � all in one-design Mumm 30s. In the recently completed 107-mile race from Douarnenez to Vannes along the southern coast of Brittany, three boats with UK-Halsey sails finished in the top five of the 30-boat fleet. First was ALFA LAVAL, a more |
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July 15, 2025
NEW TACK FOR HUNTER MARINE: SPORT CRUISER
UK-Halsey Sailmakers has been collaborating with the brain trust at Hunter Marine on a skunkworks kind of a project. The Hunter design team and all the people behind them at the factory have been creating a �turbo charged� small, affordable, fun, good performing, as well as pleasing to look at version of their already successful H-27.
The new concept has no off more |
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July 15, 2025
Award Winning Cruiser
Swedish boat builder Najad won praise from a group of nine European Sailing magazines in 2004 when they made the Najad 511 their Boat of The Year for cruising boats over 50 feet. Najad equips all their boats with UK-Halsey sails because our performance cruising sails match the quality of their boats. Najad is about to launch a new 440; the first one can be seen at the fall European more |
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July 15, 2025
UK-HALSEY RULES QUIZ CD: STILL THE EASIEST WAY TO LEARN THE RULES
Now that the racing season is in full swing, you�ve had your fair share of close calls. Instead of getting intimidated by the loud �sea lawyers� or shying away from other boats, learn the rules the easy way with the UK-Halsey Sailmakers Real Time Racing Rules Quiz CD. Our quizzes are based on common situations. Learn when a boat on starboard doesn�t have rights over a boat on port, more |
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