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6 Tips For Winter Sail Service

As sailors across the Northern Hemisphere enter autumn, many are wrapping up their sailing season.

Don't just stow away your sails...give a thought to next year before you do.
Here are six tips to follow when packing-up your sails for the season that will prepare you for next year.

1. Examine your inventory
2. Record your sails
3. Take measurements
4. Note wear and tear
5. Identify necessary sail repairs, modifications, or cleaning
6. Practice good sail storage: Call UK Sailmakers to inspect, wash, repair, and store your sails

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4 days ago

Knots, Hitches, Bends, Bights…What’s the Difference?

For the landlubber, there probably isn’t any difference between the three. They probably all refer to any one of the three as a “knot.” But for the nautically inclined, there clearly is a difference. The terminology isn’t shaped by the actual choreography in a piece of line, but rather the function. It’s really pretty simple once one understands.

A Knot is ropework that fastens or ties a piece of line to itself to create a loop or a lump.

A Hitch is ropework that fastens or ties a rope to an object like a post, a spar, or a pole.

A Bend is a fastening that joins two ropes together (or two ends of rope) into one longer line.

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5 days ago

UK Sailmakers on the World Stage at the 2026 L30 Worlds! 🌍

The 2026 L30 World Championship in Trieste, Italy, from September 7 to 12, brought together some of the best teams in the class, and we’re so proud to see UK Sailmakers sails powering crews from across the globe. Here are just a few of the UK customers who represented us on the race course:

🇮🇹 Rising Star Youth Sailing Team, Italy
2nd Overall and 1st Corinthian, skippered by Francesco Quaiat

🇺🇦 Team Daari, Ukraine
4th Overall, skippered by Oleksandr Kalistratov

🇺🇸 Team USA 14, United States
7th Overall and 3rd Corinthian, skippered by Vladimir Kulinichenko

🇨🇭 Team Elisado, Switzerland
9th Overall and 5th Corinthian, skippered by Hans Hessel

One design racing is all about fast, consistent sails and the crews who know how to use them. Congratulations to every team, and thank you for flying the UK colours in Trieste!

📍 Trieste, Italy
📸 Photos: YCA | Giovanni Tesei

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7 days ago

Big Breeze, Big Stakes on the Wannsee! 🇩🇪💨

The second to last matchday of the 2026 Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga was sailed at the Potsdamer Yacht Club last month, and the Wannsee threw everything it had at the fleet. After two days of light, notoriously shifty breeze, Sunday delivered gusts of up to 26 knots, and the teams had to switch gears fast.

In the 1st Bundesliga, the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein showed the stronger nerves in a tight duel with the local favourites, the Berliner Yacht Club, to take the win, backing up their home victory in Hamburg. The Berliner Yacht Club claimed a well earned second, with the Joersfelder Segel-Club third after a consistent series.

In the 2nd Bundesliga, the Akademischer SegelVerein Warnemünde led from early on and never let go. Behind them, the Flensburger Segel-Club and the Segel-Club Ville handled Sunday’s building breeze best and charged onto the podium.

All eyes now turn to the season finale, back on the Wannsee later this week from October 15 to 17 at the Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee, where the 2026 titles will be decided.

UK Sailmakers Germany is proud to be the official sailmaker of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga, supplying the J/70 one-design sails that keep the racing all about skill, strategy and teamwork, in light air or a full blow. Congratulations to every team, and thank you to the Potsdamer Yacht Club, the officials and the volunteers for a fantastic weekend.

📍 Wannsee, Berlin
📸 Photos: DSBL | SailTracks

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7 days ago

For many years, UK Sailmakers has been a sponsor of the Storm Trysail Club’s Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta.

This unique event brought 47 collegiate teams to Larchmont this past weekend to sail seven races. The key difference is that they weren’t sailing their usual dinghies; they were sailing keelboats loaned by STC members and friends.

In this episode of Lessons Learned, we hear from Matt Gallagher, STC Rear Commodore and head of the IOR series, which now includes the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, and, new this year, the Pacific Northwest/Seattle.

The mission of the IOR series is to give these sailors a pathway from dinghies to big boats so they can continue their love of sailing after graduation.

Photo 📸: Storm Trysail Club | Steve Cloutier

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7 days ago

330 Miles from the Next Start Line

After 9,527 miles at sea, Belgian sailor Quentin Debois came up just short of his goal of holding both transatlantic records for a single-handed boat under 7 meters. Along the way he set the east-to-west record from Cadiz, Spain, to the Bahamas and established a new Miami to New York benchmark. He completed the crossing to the Lizard, but shifting weather and a string of mechanical setbacks meant he finished a few days too late to claim the west-to-east record.

He gave it everything to the end, and he's already planning his next adventure. Read the full story of Quentin's journey in the news section of the UK Sailmakers website.

Photos 📸: Quentin Debois

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17 days ago

#ThrowbackThursday to the 2024 420 Asian & Oceanian Championship in Enoshima, Japan, where the fleet raced with Mt. Fuji looking on. 🗻

Two years on, the 420 is on an even bigger stage. The class is racing for medals this week in the Youth Mixed Dinghy event at the Aichi–Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, with crews from across Asia lining up at Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor in Gamagōri.

@uksailmakersjapan are one design specialists, and the 420 is a fleet they know inside and out. Good luck to all the young sailors as racing continues through October 3rd!

Follow the fleet and read the full report on the 420 Class website.

Photo: 📸 2024 420 Asian & Oceanian Championship | International 420 Class Association

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18 days ago

Five class wins out of nine at the 2026 HOOD Regatta!

UK Sailmakers Texas customers had a standout weekend on Galveston Bay at the Houston Yacht Club, September 18 to 20, with seven teams on the podium across six classes.

🥇 5.5 Meter: Knock Out, perfect score, 5 for 5
🥇 Catalina 22: Cacafuago, bullets in all six races
🥇 Ensign: Dynamite, by a single point, with Chasin Chickens right behind for a UK one-two
🥇 J/105: Spitfire, never worse than third
🥇 J/22: Miss Conduct, four race wins
🥉 J/24: Miss Conduct, just two points off the top

Congratulations to all our customers, and thank you to the Houston Yacht Club for a great event. Looking for an edge next season? Get in touch with your local UK Sailmakers loft.

Photos: 📸 Jim Orchid | Houston Yacht Club

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19 days ago

🏆 Hat trick in Sweden! Three national championship golds in three weeks!

Huge congratulations to Lars Bergkvist and Anders Dahlsjö, who won the Swedish Championship in Double-Handed Distance Racing (SRS) aboard Corby 25 Altissimus!

Their win completes a hat trick of Swedish Championship golds in just three weeks for boats powered by UK Sailmakers, following titles in the Smaragd and Express classes. That's a strong statement about boat speed, great sailing, and competitive sails.

Well done, Lars & Anders, and congratulations to UK Sailmakers Sweden onm the great results! 🇸🇪

Photo 📸: Lasse Eklöf

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20 days ago

Skin in the game on San Francisco Bay

The 62nd Rolex Big Boat Series doubled as the 2026 ORC North American Championship this year: 81 boats, around 700 sailors, a distance race out the Gate, and classic Bay breeze all weekend.

Two of our loft owners weren't watching from the shore. They were on the startline in ORC B:

🥈 Sylvain Barrielle of UK Sailmakers San Francisco sailed aboard Shepard Kett's Santa Cruz 50 Octavia, posting a 2, 3, 2, 2, 2 to take silver and second place in ORC North American Class B.

⛵ Brendan Huffman of @uksailmakerslosangeles raced aboard Aaron Wangenheim's Santa Cruz 52 City Lights, finishing 5th in a the competitive fleet.

And the UK Sailmakers sails on the Bay covered a century of design:
• Farr 400 Astra, 4th in ORC B on a full set of Titanium sails
• Beneteau First 30 Final Final, 5th in ORC D
• 1924 ketch Hurrica V, 4th in the Classics division

Our lofts are owned by sailors, not just salespeople. When you call your local loft, you're talking to someone who sails the same tides and breeze you do.

Congratulations to all the teams, and thank you to St. Francis Yacht Club for another outstanding regatta. 👏

Read the full story on the UK Sailmakers website.

Photos 📸: Rolex | Daniel Forster

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24 days ago

1-2 at the OK-Cup in Viken!

Congratulations to Steen Christensen and Hans Börjesson, who took first and second at the OK-Cup hosted by Wikens Båtselskap in Sweden on September 19-20, both sailing with BigFoot one design sails from UK Sailmakers Denmark. 🥇🥈

Photo 📸: Per Heegaard

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25 days ago

Swan 45 Katima on the podium at the Rolex Swan Cup 2026!

Congratulations to Jan Opländer and Team Katima, who finished 3rd overall in the Cruiser Racer class at the Rolex Swan Cup in Porto Cervo. 🥉

This year's edition marked 60 years of Nautor Swan and drew a record-breaking fleet of 170 yachts to the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. Katima put together a consistent 4-10-7-5 scoreline across four races to finish on 26 points in a competitive 27-boat ORC fleet.

Jan Opländer is no stranger to Porto Cervo success. In 2024, Jan's Swan 54 Katima won Division C with a perfect 1-1-1 scoreline. The Swan 45 has also proven herself at the ORC Worlds in Kiel, sailing with a mostly Corinthian crew against pro-crewed TP52s.

Both Swans are powered by UK Sailmakers, with a Titanium upwind inventory and Matrix spinnakers developed with Stefan Voss at UK Sailmakers Germany.

Well sailed, Katima! 👏

#uksailmakers #SailWithConfidence #RolexSwanCup @uksailmakersdeutschland @yachtingworldmagazine @seahorsemagazine @scuttlebuttsailingnews @nautorswan_official @yccs_portocervo by @uksailmakers

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25 days ago