Ullman Ultimate 20 Tuning Guide
How to optimize power and pointing
This guide will provide you with the basics of tuning an Ultimate 20. Settings may vary on your sailing style, crew weight and your sailing conditions. We strongly recommend you experiment and find out which settings work best for you.
Through years of speed-testing and sail design improvements, Ullman Sails has developed the fastest Ultimate 20 sails. And we continue to develop even faster sails, drawing on lessons learned from the best sailors in the class as well as from our winning sails in other sportboat classes, such as the Melges 24.
- Dacron Racing Main
- Dacron Racing Jib
- AIRX Racing Spinnaker
- Printable Guide
Ulimtate 20 Dacron Racing Main
- -Constructed of DIMENSION-POLYANT's high-quality racing "square weave" Dacron.
- -2003 designs dominated the U.S. Nationals.
- -Mainsail is designed to the class maximum size and with a shape that's forgiving and easy to trim so you can focus on racing.
- -Mainsails include battens, insignias, vision windows, racing battens, screw adjuster end fittings, telltales, sail numbers and roll bag.
Ultimate 20 Dacron Racing Jib
- -Constructed of Contender 5.46 PK -2003 designs dominated the U.S.Nationals.
- -Jib is designed to the class maximum size and with a shape that is easy to trim so you can focus on racing. The jib has vertical leach battens to keep the leach from hooking and increase sail area, and the battens maintain a smooth jib shape. The battens work with roller furling.
- -Jibs include vertical battens, leach/foot cords, telltales, leach telltale, Velcro cover for halyard adjustment tackle, windows and roll bag.
Ultimate 20 AIRX Racing Spinnaker
- -Constructed of Bainbridge's high-quality racing AIRX 700 spinnaker material.
- -2003 designs dominated the U.S. Nationals.
- -Spinnaker is designed to the maximum size and with a shape to allow you to sail low and fast for maximum VMG. The strong AIRX material promotes durability and is low-stretch, so the power of the wind transfers into boatspeed.
- -Spinnakers include telltales, two color choices with any color available and in any color scheme you choose, and a sail bag.
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