Mainsail slides are all hand sewn on with heavy webbing for long life and kindness to the sail. Makes a nicer looking sail, too, which is one of our hallmarks.
#Rigging a code zero sail Patch#
We seldom back up our corner and reefing rings with external webbing, preferring to use extra thicknesses of re-enforcing patch material in the corners, so that after-thought measures are unnecessary. The shackle hole is lined with stainless steel and the adjacent bolt rope is leather bound. All cruising mainsail headboards are heavy aluminum anodized installed with 3/16″ aircraft rivets. Few other sailmakers can make that claim.Īll corner rings and reef cringles are hydraulically pressed in stainless steel assemblies. As stated in all our literature, we use only the top of the line fabrics in all our sails. The higher the quality of material, the longer lasting and performing is the sail, always our goal. When bolt ropes shrink (an inevitable feature of poor synthetics) the sail is rendered prematurely shapeless. Since these lines are hidden in the sail, inferior rope is often used by other sailmakers.
#Rigging a code zero sail full#
All full batten sails are fitted with hardware at the forward end to tension the batten and provide a universal joint with the mast slide.Īll bolt ropes are New England Spun Dacron which is the finest for the purpose. Dacron for extra chafe protection against the shrouds. Most full batten pockets are made up of 12 oz. There is an internal wrap of heavy elastic or webbing in the pocket end.
#Rigging a code zero sail plus#
Genuine ClamCleats are used to hold leech line adjustments at all reef and clews.Īll batten pockets consist of four thicknesses plus the extra “slab” to which it is sewn with double stitching. Leech lines are always centered in the tabling with stitching on either side to prevent the very aft edge of the sail from “cracking,” a frequent problem with other sailmakers sails.
Heavy duty leech lines are standard with all sails except storm sails and some spinnakers. This is valuable insurance against leech fatigue and will give your sail extra years of service. Leech tablings on all cruising sails are two-plied with an extra thickness of wider Dacron tape under the tabling and leech line. Dark blue V92 is used for our small boat sails, generally double stitched standard zig-zag. and up are multi-stitched on the seams with Special Features and Standards Built Like A Mack Sail. Some sailmakers offer radial cut genoas from woven-only cloth, but we do not because the breakdown is rapid and the resulting washboard looking sail is something we would not want our name on. We take the extra time and skill necessary to build a truly long-lasting, stay-flat when reefed, genoa – for serious cruising performance. Other sailmakers simply make cross-cut genoas and shrug their shoulders about the consequences. So, if the material is so durable, why not execute the design and construction to hold the shape in place as well? Bravo, the miter cut – especially for roller reefing genoas – which is practically every genoa built today. But, woven-only Dacron is the odds-on favorite for cruising sails – lower cost and the incredible durability of 15-20 years in many sails. This is simple with CAD-CAM, and competitive because laminates are much more stable than woven-only cloth. In exotic materials, the solution is to radiate the panels out from each of the load corners of the sail. The fact remains that material does stretch, no matter whether it’s new modern Kevlar, Spectra, Technora, Mylar and certainly Dacron-only cloth, and it's the responsibility of the sailmaker to deal with the problem. In reality, such sails were a little less fast each and every time used. Sailmakers were also eager to produce sails that were "fast out of the bag". But, by the 70's mitered genoas were being pushed into obscurity by the pressure of modern economics (the miter is labor intensive) and production requirements (it takes trained sailmakers, not kids hired off the street). Sailmaker’s reputations were built on the execution of their miters, perhaps none more so than Hood sails of the 1960's (Many hard-used Hood genoas can be found today that look and perform better than their two or three year old counterparts from "modern lofts"). The miter in these sails was not simply a benign seam to hold the two halves of the sail together, but rather, a very sophisticatedly crafted avenue into the heart of the sail, that when done right, could anticipate the natural stretching and locking of the fibers in the cloth, guaranteeing that the draft would stay forward and the after area of the sail would stay flat and clean. See why Mack Sails has become the biggest, small sail loft in the USAįifty years ago virtually every genoa made for performance sailing was miter cut, like the photo the left, whether constructed of cotton, nylon or the then new Dacron.
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