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VIDEO: Sail With Confidence

January 26th, 2022

UK Sailmakers presents Sail With Confidence, a series of instructional videos for both racing and cruising sailors. Spinnaker banding system


75 Years of UK Sailmakers

October 11th, 2021

Founded in 1946 in City Island, New York by Charles “Buster” Ulmer as Charles Ulmer, Inc., UK Sailmakers is one


Ins and Outs of Inhaulers

October 3rd, 2021

Barry Hayes, Director of UK Sailmakers Ireland, takes aim at one of the hardest sail adjustments to do correctly: Setting


A most unusual request

July 14th, 2021

Making sails for boats is a sailmaker’s passion, but those skills have other applications as detailed in this report by


Offwind sail handling systems

April 10th, 2021

Barry Hayes, Director of UK Sails Ireland, delivers an education of the spinnaker and gennaker handling systems: There are times


Learning the singlehanded gybe

November 17th, 2020

by Adam Loory, General Manager, UK Sailmakers International Thanks to COVID-19’s requirement to sail socially distanced, I discovered the fun



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