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Introducing UK Sailmakers new podcast series, Lessons Learned, created to help sailors around the world up their games. For over a decade, our website’s How To section has provided instructional videos, photos, and documents on a broad array of sailing topics.
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Lessons Learned with Apparent Winds (opens the original)
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In Episode 31 of UK Sailmakers' Lessons Learned, host Buttons Padin catches up with Tripp Brower, executive director of Apparent Winds, aboard the 75 foot aluminum ketch Resilience in Mo'orea, French Polynesia, just in from Fakarava in the Tuamotus.Tripp explains how Apparent Winds grew from a planned two year circumnavigation into a 10 year expedition focused on collecting and sharing stories of community led environmental and cultural preservation, and on making "affordable science" possible b
Lessons Learned at the 2026 Pacific Cup (opens the original)
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In Episode 30 of UK Sailmakers’ Lessons Learned, host Buttons Padin talks with Brendan Huffman, co-owner of the UK Sailmakers Los Angeles loft, fresh off winning ORR 4, the Gosling's Rum Division, and the perpetual Carl Schumacher Award in the 2026 Pacific Cup aboard his refit Express 37, Dorado. He took the lead in the last 100 miles of an 11.5 day race. Brendan walks through a stop-and-start two and a half year restoration, including major deck and rig updates, a cracked diesel tank that conta
Lessons Learned Ocean Racing Down Under (opens the original)
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In Episode 29 of UK Sailmakers' Lessons Learned podcast, host Buttons Padin talks with Ceris and Paul Arns about Obsession, the Mark Mills designed MAT 1245 they campaign out of Western Australia. Ceris and Paul are the poster children for a husband and wife team fully committed to a racing program. "We're just committed to racing Obsession. If the boat is not used, we feel bad," Ceris noted. That commitment has paid off with back to back Ocean Racing Western Australian Championships and a long
Lessons Learned Racing Double-Handed to Bermuda (opens the original)
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In Episode 28 of UK Sailmakers' Lessons Learned podcast, host Buttons Padin talks with UK Sailmakers Northeast Loft Manager Emmett Dickheiser and co-skipper Cat Chimney about their 2026 Newport Bermuda Race in the Double-Handed Division aboard the J/44 Kenai. Though both were experienced Bermuda Race sailors, racing double-handed together was a new challenge. Thanks to the generosity and encouragement of Kenai’s owners Chris and Karen Lewis, they were able to borrow the boat and tackle the iconi
Lessons Learned Short - Quentin Debois' Benchmark Record (opens the original)
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In this Lessons Learned Short, host Buttons Padin talks with Belgian sailor Quentin Debois after he established a world benchmark time sailing a Mini 6.5 from Miami to New York (about 900 miles), a category with no prior official record attempts. This follows his earlier 2026 record breaking transatlantic crossing from Cadiz to San Salvador in the Mini 6.5. Debois describes choosing a strong weather window with router Basil Rochu, using the Gulf Stream for an average 2 knot push (up to 3) until
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