In the last few years I have learned more then I can remember when it comes to sailboat racing. One thing that keeps coming back is this lesson: Genoa Staysails can add speed to a lot of boats in man
This year's Newport to Ensenada Race was one of the classics - great breeze all day and night with a full moon and the usual 'challenging' last few miles to the finish in the morning. One of the stan
At Ullman Sails San Diego, we pride ourselves on our dedication to customer service. Nothing illustrates this better than our work during last weekend's San Diego Yachting Cup. Our staff worked long
Vince Townrow grew up in Australia, where he started sailing at age eleven on Mirror dinghies at the Montrose Bay Yacht Club in Hobart, Tasmania. Vince took to sailing like a fish to water, and quickl
With sunny cool weather light winds and 45 boats the Cabrilo 1 race hosted by SWYC turned out to be a great race and a fantastic day of sailing. The Cabrilo 1 race starts at the mouth to San
The new line of the highly successful FiberPath line from Ullman Sails is FiberPath Sport. Using load path The new line of the highly successful FiberPath line from Ullman Sails is FiberPath Sport. Using load path technology and Twaron yarns FiberPath Sport is designed for smaller boats and sails (up to 35 square meters). The Sport line replaces the Technora scrim with a polyester scrim and adds an extra pick of Twaron in the fill direction then uses Twaron in the load path mapping designed by Ullman Sails to complete the structure of the sail. It is then laminated between films under the same lamination process that all our FiberPath lines use making an extremely well bonded sail.
The FiberPath Sport line cost about 20% less than the FiberPath GP line that uses Technora load path and Technora Scrim. FiberPath Sport Twaron load path yarns are gold in color similar to Kevlar. The Sport is a great alternative to Kevlar paneled sails because it is similar in price and sailors get the performance of FiberPath on the smaller boats without increasing their budgets. The size limit is due to the Polyester scrims, larger boats need more off thread line load resistance than the lighter smaller boats.
Ullman Sails is proud to offer this new product to yacht racers around the world starting in December of 2009. Look for Ullman Sails at the Seattle Boat Show this January where we will be displaying the new FiberPath Sport.
