United States

Phil Uhl is an internationally known marine artist / photographer, TV producer, from Honolulu Hawaii. In the late 70s and early 80s, Phil Uhl traveled around the world giving slide shows of Hawaii yacht racing, in order to convince the world’s top sailors to enter the Pan Am Clipper Cup. In 1986, Phil was chosen by Sail America, to work with Dennis Conner and “Stars and Stripes” to document their successful challenge to win back the America’s Cup from Australia. In 1991, Phil’s production company, Channel Sea TV provided the Television coverage, for Bill Koch and the America 3 Foundation’s, 1992 winning America’s Cup team. In 1995, CSTV provided the footage seen by millions around the world, as they followed the history making effort of the America 3 Women’s Team. For the 2000 America’s Cup in Auckland, Uhl co-produced a series of programs with former America’s Cup winners Bill Koch and John Bertrand that aired on New Zealand TV during the event. In 2007 Phil acted as coordinating producer for the movie “Morning Light” released by the Walt Disney Company. Recently, Phil served as a major contributor of vintage photographs for the new coffee table book based on the history of the famous Maxi Yacht, WINDWARD PASSAGE. In 2023 he provided stills and archival video footage of Buddy Melges, for the documentary film, “MELGES, The Wizard of Zenda”