If you’re bringing your sails into the loft for service or storage using a drawstring sail bag, you may be staring at that gold UK Sailmakers bag that’s been stashed below deck for months, or even years, wondering how your sail will ever fit. Trust us: over the years, our lofts have seen some very creative folding techniques! Getting your sails serviced before the spring sailing season is key to keeping them performing at their best, and catching small maintenance issues early can help prevent costly repairs down the road. Your local UK Sailmakers loft can inspect, repair, or clean your sails, and if you’re thinking about a new one, this is the perfect time to plan for spring delivery. We can help you create a multi-year plan to suit your needs, budget, and sailing goals. Some UK Sailmakers lofts also offer collection and installation services to make it easy to bring your sails in for repair, winter storage, or return. But if you’re dropping your sails off yourself and are wondering how to fit them into a standard drawstring bag, follow this step-by-step guide—it will save you time and make your sailmaker’s job easier. Step 1: Remove any battens and sheets from the sail and lay it out on a clean, flat surface—like a dock finger, sailing club lawn, or other smooth area. Avoid dragging the sail across rough concrete or other hard, abrasive surfaces. Step 2: Flatten about an arm span’s width of the foot, keeping the remainder of the sail neatly piled beside it without twists. Step 3: Grip the foot of the sail while holding the section for your first fold taut. Keep the height of your drawstring bag in mind and make folds slightly narrower than your sail bag’s height to ensure a good fit. Step 4: Continue flaking the sail back and forth, staying between the tack and clew, all the way to the head. You don’t need to stack the luff like you would for a racing sail “sausage bag,” though you can if you prefer. Step 5: Fold over the tack edge over, then roll the sail toward the clew. Step 6: Secure the rolled sail with sail ties and slide it into your drawstring bag. Done!

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Evasion Yachting, Distributeur historique des Bavaria Yachts en France vous invite à venir découvrir l'ensemble des gammes voiles et moteur à St-Mandrier (Toulon). Pour en savoir plus sur les Voiliers Bavaria : https://www.evasion-yachting.com/voiliers-bavaria-var-mediterranee/ N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous souhaitez de plus amples informations. L'équipe d'Evasion Yachting. 13 Quai Aristide Briand - 83 430 St-Mandrier-sur-Mer 04 94 63 00 00 www.evasion-yachting.com

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We sailed to Sardinia from the Balearics in June, the first anchorage was heaven on earth, and in the afternoon we entered Marina Stintino - watch the full visual pilot video: https://youtu.be/6pLLEH9brbA More in-depth study : https://seatv.world/docking/stintino/ #sailingchannel #sailing #shorts

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Gemini is our full-time sailboat home while we travel the world, one anchorage at a time. Subscribe to our main channel @twothehorizon for full-length vids and more! Check out our store: https://stan.store/twothehorizon #shorts #sailinglife #boatlife #sailingcouple #nomadlife

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If you fall off a ship, it keeps going — about 10 metres every second. A simple U-turn won't bring it back to you: the turning circle is hundreds of metres wide. So officers use the Williamson turn: hard rudder toward the person's side (swinging the stern and propeller away), 60° off course, then hard rudder the other way. The ship loops around and comes back along its own wake, heading straight to the person — even when nobody can see them. Named after John Williamson, who used it in 1943.

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This Off Center Harbor member just launched his new Wheelbarrow Boat that he built from a kit! ⁠ ⁠ Kits and plans now available from Off Center Harbor - comment "wheelbarrow" to get more info or click here: https://www.offcenterharbor.com/wheelbarrow-boat-more-info-genyt/ ⁠

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