Sail Build Specifications

1. Sail Cloth

At Precision Sails We Use Only First-Run Sail Cloth

From industry-leading North American and European manufacturers like Dimension-Polyant, Bainbridge International and Challenge Sailcloth our cloth is top of the line. With these high standards for cloth quality, we're proud to offer a 3 Year Warranty on Dacron Sails and 2 Year Warranty on all Laminate and Membrane Sails. We carry a wide range of cloths including Dacron, Laminates, Membrane, String and Fibres such as Carbon and Aramid. Here are your cloth choices for our Standard Cruising Sails:

Cruising

Economy Dacron	Radial Dinghy Laminate
A durable cloth best for sailors who are in need of new sails but are on a budget! At the most affordable prices we still offer amazing industry leading craftsmanship and designs using SailPack Design Software.	A unique film on film warp orientated polyester laminate designed to be used for one design and small keelboats. Zero crimp warp yarns make this sail very durable in a radial configuration. High tenacity low stretch polyester warp and fill fibres with a black X-ply for off thread line bias performance provides a rugged construction and a modern hi-tech appearance.
Challenge High Modulus Dacron	Challenge Marblehead / Fibre 104 Dacron
This High Modulus Dacron is the go to cloth for performance sailing at a great price. Featuring very tight weaves and high yarn count, this low stretch cloth is our most recommended Dacron. This is the most common cruising Dacron used in the industry. Minimizing stretch is the key to creating durable and shape holding sails for easy handling and trim at a great price. The rest comes in the craftsmanship, design and attention to detail that we put into our very popular High Modulus Dacron Sails.	.This Premium Challenge Dacron comes in both High (Fiber 104 with Honeywell 1W70) and Low (Marblehead) aspect versions depending on your rig. The advantage in this cloth over the traditional Dacron's is the tightness of the weave and very high yarn count allowing the cloths strength to come directly from the weave and less depended on resins to hold sail shape.The result is a tougher, more durable and excellent bias control. What does this mean to you? Less sail deformation and the longest life of all Dacron sails!

Advanced Cruising

Flexible Mylar Taffeta Laminate (Radial)	Custom Vectran Strung Laminate (Radial)
This sail is an entry level radial laminate consisting of a mylar core laminated between two high tenacity durable taffetas. This material is heat set and treated with anti mildew and anti UV additives. The benefit of this laminated cloth is that it feels and acts like a woven polyester Dacron. You can easily furl and flake this laminated sail. The radial construction makes this sail ideal for the performance cruisers where durability and performance are required with a soft hand. This sail is comparable to the North Sails Soft Norlam (TM) product line.	Custom Vectran Strung Laminates incorporates multi directional fiber along the load path areas of the sail. The custom strung vectran fibers are most dense along the leech and decrease in density as they move towards the luff. This allows the sail to stay lighter with extra fibers only where extra strength is needed most. This sail is laminated with an anti fungicide to reduce and eliminate mold and mildew. It is constructed with an advanced rip stop scrim to minimize potential tearing. This sail is exceptional for high UV areas of the world. It utilizes the same UV film technology used on the windows of most skyscrapers. This protects the essential fibers of your sail and the UV film will outlast your sail! This is for sailors looking for long term performance and superiority over a Dacron sail. It is available at the price of a good Dacron sail!
CDX Polyester Radial Cruise Laminate (Contender)	Hydra Net Radial (Dimension-Polyant)
This Radial Performance Sail comes from one of the top sail cloth manufacturers in the world Contender. This sail has exceptional bias stability and tear strength that comes from the ZigZag polyester fibers laminated between the taffeta. The ZigZag polyester fibres stabilize the radial loads, allowing for a longer retention of sail shape. The USA woven UV treated polyester taffetas on both sides of the laminated cloth provide addition durability and UV protection. The CDX laminates are best for the sailors who are continually in varying wind strengths, allowing stability due to the strength of the evenly distributed ZigZag laminated panels. Perfect for a easy to handle sail because the sail shape stays flatter longer, points higher and heals less as the wind increases! Handling and strength is what sets this Contender CDX cloth apart from other Cruise Laminates!	Hydra Net Radial, let's just say this is the best of the best! Extreme durability, performance and strength comes from combining the durability of a woven polyester with the best Ultra-PE Fibres and rip stop. The woven construction is a breathable platform that totally minimizes mildew! Hydra Net's tight weaves offer superior shape retention, strength and longevity similar to many high end laminate. The softness of this cloth makes it superior to a laminate in its ease to furl and handle. The Hydra Net is the closest controlled manufactured cloths in the industry with the most consistent control of the final product! This very high end sail is perfect for high performance offshore sailors. Design targets and shape retention that were only achieved with laminates are available in Hydra Net! When you buy Hydra Net you are getting the performance of a laminate but with the benefits of a Dacron sail!
Challenge Warp Drive Dacron (Radial)	Tetraneema Radial Laminate
Warp Drive is a radial Dacron with straight warp fibers which prevent the cloth from elongating over time in the warp direction. The straight warp fibers allow for a radial Dacron sail with minimal stretch. A major advantage of radial construction is that the warp yarns closely follow the load lines in the sail, so the stability of the air-foil depends much less on the bias strength of the cloth. This means that the sail doesn't rely on resin to maintain its camber, and as a result holds its shape much longer, long after the crosscut sail has been distorted. One can make a sail that holds its shape with a softer, easy to handle material. Warp-Drive is also a highly desired cloth over a laminate if mildew is an issue where you live. This cloth is not the cloth of choice in high UV areas of the world due to the high count of fine fibers used in the fill direction.	Tetraneema Radial Laminate is specifically designed for large cruising yachts up to 120'. The Tetraneema yarn in the warp competes side by side with Spectra, Dyneema and Ultra-PE fibres in other sail cloths such as Hydra Net. This is a modified version of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE). UHMWPE has extremely low moisture absorption, is self-lubricating, highly resistant to abrasion and has the highest impact strength of any thermoplastic presently made. The Tetraneema Radial laminate takes on all of these characteristics. The cloth consists of exterior Tetraneema taffetas laminated on either side of a film encapsulated X-Scrim with an infused anti-fungicide chemical. Tetraneema has a strength to weight ratio 40% to 50% higher than Kevlar, twaron and technora. This cloth has tested at only 0.8% creep after 10 hours of sailing. The bias control and elongation strength excels as the warp fibres are weaved tightly with the fill crimped around the warp. This is a modified version of the fibre used for ballistic protective clothing and is very strong and durable.

Club Racing

Structured Tape Technora	Club Technora
Polyester Scrim in a cross cut construction forms the base of these great club racing sails. The base is covered by load bearing tape / fibres laminated on both sides of the sail. The tapes are constructed from technora aramid black fibres that are laid over a polyester scrim base. This addresses the leech to luff load demands of club racers. These sails are rugged yet lightweight. The structural technora tapes create a very strong grid pattern that in return acts as a rip-stop. This overlapping rip-stop prevents excessive tear damages over the lifespan of the sail. The 50mm tapes are constructed of 4 rows of technora fibres. This sail comes standard as a clear film on film configuration. Also available with a single taffeta surface. The taffeta adds weight but also increases durability and lifespan of the sail. Inquire within 60 hours after purchasing online. No additional cost to add a single taffeta.	This sail is constructed with narrow panel membrane construction technology and strung with aramid (Technora) laid load path fibers to support the sail. The Club Technora consist of two layers of film sandwiching a black polyester x-ply scrim and custom strung technora fibres. The fibres provide a better strength to weight ratio compared with other types of sail construction. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. Technora fibers have excellent stretch and UV resistance and are very good in flex when compared to Kevlar. Technora has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: High tensile strength (weight for weight) Technora is eight times stronger than steel Good fatigue resistance Long-term dimensional stability Excellent resistance to saltwater High elongation before break and high elasticity. Also available in a gold color. Inquire within 60 hours after purchasing online. No additional cost to gold color.
Black Polyester Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)	Twaron Advanced Membrane
This sails is constructed with a film on film shell, black x-ply and strengthened with a black coated polyester. The black coating on the polyester helps increase the UV resistant properties when compared to standard white polyester fibre. This Black Polyester Radial cloth is known for its exceptional performance characteristics as a polyester laminate. Greatly suited for many race classes that specify polyester as the only class legal fiber. This advanced club racing radial is slightly more expensive because of its name brand, design and labour required for a radial constructed sail.	This sail is constructed with narrow or wide panel (depending on sail area) membrane construction technology and strung with aramid (Twaron) laid load path fibers to support the sail. The Twaron Advanced Membrane consist of two layers of film sandwiching a polyester black x-ply scrim and custom strung twaron fibres. An advanced twaron scrim is used instead of typical polyester scrim in our Club Racing sails. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. The fibres provide a better strength to weight ratio compared with other types of sail construction. Twaron has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: High tensile strength at low weight High Modulus, structural rigidity and excellent dimensional stability Good resistance to abrasion and cutting Very strong allowing for use in large boats without use of other stronger fibres
Carbon / Twaron Advanced Membrane	Carbon Advanced Membrane
This sail is constructed with narrow or wide panel (depending on sail area) membrane construction technology and strung with Carbon and Twaron laid load path fibers to support the sail. The Carbon / Twaron Advanced Membrane consist of two layers of film sandwiching a polyester black x-ply scrim and custom strung Carbon and Twaron fibres. By mixing Carbon and Twaron we are able to build a sail that is stronger than a Twaron fibre on its own. This keeps the price more affordable than a carbon only sail. This sail will be lighter and stronger than the Twaron Advanced Membrane and heavier than the Carbon Advanced Membrane. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. The fibres provide a better strength to weight ratio compared with other types of sail construction. Twaron has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: High tensile strength at low weight High Modulus, structural rigidity and excellent dimensional stability Good resistance to abrasion and cutting Very strong allowing for use in large boats without use of other stronger fibres Carbon has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: Highest strength to weight ratio Good Rigidity Corrosion resistant Fatigue Resistant Good tensile strength but Brittle High UV resistance	This sail is constructed with narrow or wide panel (depending on sail area) membrane construction technology and strung with Carbon load path fibers to support the sail. This Carbon Advanced Membrane consist of two layers of film sandwiching a polyester black x-ply scrim and custom strung carbon fibres. Carbon has the best strength to weight ratio and UV resistance of all fibres. This creates the best performing and UV resistance sail. The downside to this fibre is that it is fairly brittle so you must avoid folding and bending the fibres as much as possible. If you are willing to take care of this type of sail it will outperform other options. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. The fibres provide a better strength to weight ratio compared with other types of sail construction. Carbon has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: Highest strength to weight ratio Good Rigidity Corrosion resistant Fatigue Resistant Good tensile strength but Brittle High UV resistance

Performance Racing

Twaron Advanced Membrane	Black X-Tech Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)
This sail is constructed with narrow or wide panel (depending on sail area) membrane construction technology and strung with aramid (Twaron) laid load path fibers to support the sail. The Twaron Advanced Membrane consist of two layers of film sandwiching an advanced gold twaron x-ply scrim and custom strung twaron fibres. An advanced twaron scrim is used instead of typical polyester scrim in our Club Racing sails. The fibres provide a better strength to weight ratio compared with other types of sail construction. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. Twaron has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: High tensile strength at low weight High Modulus, structural rigidity and excellent dimensional stability Good resistance to abrasion and cutting Very strong allowing for use in large boats without the use of other stronger fibres	This radial constructed technora fibre laminate is highly advanced and balanced to prevent unwanted elongation. This cloth utilized two high end technora scrims instead of typical polyester scrim. The technora scrim is fill orientated for increased luff to leech strength. This is critical for roller furling and over-lapping headsails. High tenacity technora fibre offers high flex and impact durability. Black aramid warp fibers provide load line strength in tri-radial construction. Black die on the technora fibres increase UV resistance. This radial cloth comes from one of the best names in the racing industry, Dimension-Polyant!
Carbon / Technora Advanced Membrane	GPL GraphX Performance Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)
This sail is constructed with narrow or wide panel (depending on sail area) membrane construction technology and strung with carbon and technora load path fibers to support the sail. This Performance Carbon / Technora Advanced Membrane consist of two layers of film sandwiching the best aramid black x-ply scrim and mixture of carbon and aramid fibres. Carbon is the lowest weight and highest strength fibre but it tends to be brittle on its own. By adding technora fibres with the carbon it supports the carbon and gives the sail increased durability and flex over a carbon only sail. The technora makes up for the weaknesses of carbon fibres and the carbon provides a much higher performance sail. Fibres are denser where the sail experiences the heaviest loads and less dense where the sail experiences minimal loads. This eliminates additional weight in unloaded areas. Carbon has a range of unmatched performance properties, including: Highest strength to weight ratio Good Rigidity Corrosion resistant Fatigue Resistant Good tensile strength but Brittle High UV resistance Carbon's low flexibility is supported by the technora fibres which has the highest flexibility. Carbon alone has a low resistance to shock loading but technora fibres have one of the highest levels of elongation and shock loading before breaking.	Superior fiber handling and advanced lamination technology using a patented insert process makes this radial laminate the most durable carbon laminate on the market today. High strength carbon warp sheet fiber, super rugged technora scrim and technora x-ply create this super sail! This laminate offers incredible resistant to flex, elongation and degradation from UV exposure! The sail is constructed with 5 layers laminated and inserted together: 1) Film 2) Carbon Fiber Inserts (Patented Insert Process) 3) Technora Black Scrim 4) Technora X-ply 5) Film This radial cloth comes from one of the best names in the racing industry, Dimension-Polyant! It is their highest end racing cloth!

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2. Off Shore Specifications

Strong as Rock, Light as a Feather

Double Tape	Wide Seams
Leech, Luff and Foot tapes are all doubled. The extra tape layer give the sail much more strength on the outer edges of the sail. Usually one tape is larger than the other. For example on a larger sail we may use a 100mm tape and a 75mm tape together for the double tapes.	Wider seams are used and an extra row of stitching is added to off shore sails. Where a sail might normally have a 30mm wide seam with 2 rows of stitching we would now use a 38mm seam with 3 rows of stitching.

Reinforcements

As pictured below, we add many types of reinforcement to an offshore sail. Precision Sails offshore spec sails are designed to withstand the strongest of winds. Many lofts won't compare in the level of detail and reinforcements added. Always be sure to ask what makes your offshore sail different than a regular sail. We don't always add all of these specification below but the larger the sail, the more likely all of the below specifications will be added. The offshore package placed on your sail will be optimal for your boat size. On large boat sails you are likely to see all of the specifications below.

Leech and Luff Reinforcement Belts strengthen the sail along the leech and luff where the sail experiences a lot of forces.
Leech Seam Wedgies prevent the seams along the leech from splitting.
Double Ply Layers on all Patches increase the number of layers of sail cloth on each of the patches. This adds a tremendous amount of extra strength. This includes corner, reef and eyelet patches.
Reef Reinforcement Belts further increase the strength of your reef points and foot of the sail when reefed.

Hardware Upgrades

With an off shore sail we often upgrade the hardware as well.

On a Mainsail this usually means larger battens and batten pockets, metal sliders, larger diameter press rings and more reinforcement webbing on each corner. Sometimes you will get an upgraded headboard and most of the time a second headboard slider.

On a Headsail this means larger webbing straps and a larger diameter clew press ring.

3. Sail Hardware

Hardware You Can Trust

Our design team works closely with clients to customize the hardware used on every sail. Whether your boat has mainsail cars, standard slides, tides marine track or bolt rope we are here to help. Hardware is very important in the life of the sail and it must be custom fit to your specific boat. A mistake in hardware can lead to more maintenance over time and an added expense for those on a budget. By ensuring your boat is outfitted with the proper hardware, our team helps to avoid any extra potential costs. We truly work closely with every client to ensure great fitting sails.

Our standard sail hardware comes from Challenge Sail Cloth and Bainbridge International. Often times sails require special parts from other hardware manufacturers. We can supply parts from just about any hardware supplier but our most popular are Harken, Tides Marine, Rutgerson, Antal, Bainbridge International and Challenge Sail Cloth. If you require something special let us know.

Battens	Receptacles
These flexible fiber glass battens come standard in 3 sizes: 15mm x 3mm, 30mm x 3mm, and 50mm x 3mm. Battens will give you more sail area and add durability to your sail.	Quality batten receptacles from Challenge and Bainbridge will always hold your battens firmly in place.
Sliders	Hanks
With 100's of sizes from Bainbridge and Challenge your mainsail will always fit no matter what type of mast profile you have.	Brass and stainless steel piston hanks ensure hank-on sails always easily raise and lower. The strong construction ensure they stand up in harsh ocean environments.
Cleats	Rings
Quality alloy cleats ensure your leech and foot lines are always secured.	It takes upwards of 50 tons of pressure to press large diameter rings. Your main sail will come with 10mm, 12mm 20mm, 25mm 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm or 60mm press rings.
Headboards	Blocks
High tech metal alloy headboards accompany all mainsails. Extra webbing and a press ring is added to hold the headboard in place.Made from a metal alloy, these headboards will stand the test of time.	In mast furling mainsail are usually on large boats and so a quality clew block is required. Clew blocks are webbed on and varients are available.
Thread
UV Protected Waxed white thread is used on all of our sails. Thread weights come in V30, V46, V69, V92, V138, V207. Upgrades are available to different colors and to Tenara Gore-Tex Thread.

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4. Sail Craftsmanship

Perfect Right Down To The Last Detail

General

Stitching	Corner Patches
Our designers choose the appropriate seam widths that are used in each sail. For long lasting Dacron sails, you must ensure there is enough strength in the stitching to hold the load of the sail. This is why we use triple step zig zag on all seams which adds strength and stops broken threads from unraveling like a row of standard zig zag stitching. This will lower required maintenance over the life of the sail. Larger seams will always have additional rows of stitching. Where a small sail may have 1 row of stitching, a large sail could have 4 or more.	We design corners patches that better distribute the load, whether it's with standard block patches or stronger reinforced radial patches. Radial corner patches typically have near double the number of sail cloth layers at the corner. Our unique radial corner design is stronger and more durable than the competition. This is always a recommended upgrade. The corner patches extra cloth layers create a longer lasting sail and prevents premature material failure. It's important that your new sail does not use precut corner patches. Our designers ensure custom corners and reinforcements on every sail.
Lines	Reinforcement Webbing
Leech and Foot lines ensure your sail is always working well even after many years of heavy use. Leech lines prevent fluttering and cloth fatigue. Lines come in Kevlar, Polyester, and Vectran.	Extra strength reinforcement webbing is used on the tack, clew and reefing rings / cringles as well as on headboards. This spreads the loads at critical points ensuring maximum sail durability.
Tell Tales	Draft Stripes
Quality wool tell tales are placed on both sides of your head sail and nylon strips are placed along the leech of your mainsail. These are typically placed in 3 spots but depending on the size of your sail this may differ. Tell tales aid in the process of trimming a sail	Highly visible draft strips come standard in many colors including blue, green, red, black, white and grey. We can do multi stripes or singles stripes. Draft strips are typically in two or three locations and help you to determine the curvature of the sail.
Tapes	Sail Bag
Tapes run along all three sides of your sail. Proper sizing ensures durability without degrading performance. Single layered tapes are standard where double layered tape is used for offshore sails.	All of our sails come standard with an appropriately sized drawstring sail bag to help you transport and store your new sail.
Sail Number	Insignia
Usually placed on your mainsail, sail numbers are used for identification in sail boat races as well as if you are in trouble on the water. They can also be used by pirates to identify your boat so be careful! Our standard sail numbers are applied with insignia cloth. This is a special heavy duty uv resistant sticker material that comes in blue, black, red, green and yellow. Sail numbers can also be printed onto your sail to minimize weight.	An insignia is the sail boat manufactures logo or a custom graphic usually placed towards the top of your mainsail. These are laser cut from insignia cloth which is a special heavy duty uv resistant sticker material that comes in blue, black, red, green and yellow. Insignias can also be printed onto your sail to minimize weight.

Mainsail

Mainsail Clew	Clew Slug
Large diameter heavy duty press rings are used on the clew of your mainsail. These rings come in 14mm, 20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm and 60mm sizes. An appropriate size will be used for your sail. Depending on your configuration a clew slug may also be added.	A heavy duty metal clew slug is attached to the clew corner if your rig does not have an out haul car. This slug holds your sail down to your boom in the vertical direction just like a clew car would. The slug is webbed on with multiple layers of webbing strap and slides easily in the boom.
Mainsail Tack	Mainsail Head
A press or round ring will be used on the tack of your sail. This is typically slightly smaller than your clew ring. The placement of your mainsail tack is very important for proper fit. We hand cut our mainsail tack corners to ensure the placement of your tack is perfect.	Aluminum head boards of different sizes and styles come from Challenge, Bainbridge and Antal. Webbing is added for extra reinforcement and stronger metal sliders are used to secure the sail at the head.
Reef Points	Sliders
Strong reinforced patches on the luff and leech along with heavy duty press rings allow for easy reefing. A row of reef eyelets between the luff and leech allow for clean storage of excess sail. Positioning of reef points can be customized during design but our standard positioning is 11%, 22% and 33% up the luff. This can vary with batten positioning.	Reinforcement patches, chafe protection and heavy duty press rings secure the mainsail slider attachment points. Sliders are hand stitched to the sail with several loops of webbing and special heavy duty waxed thread.
Cunningham	Flattener
A heavy duty press ring and an extra cunningham reinforcement patch is placed about 6" to 12" above the tack to allow for tightening the luff of the sail. This sail control helps you move the draft forward or aft to control optimal sail shape.	The flattener is positioned just above the clew on the leech of the main sail. This option is much like a cunningham in that it allows you to control the shape of the sail. In this case it is mainly used to flatten the shape of your main sail.
Batten Pockets	Overhead Leech Line
A batten pocket that performs well is essential in keeping your battens secured and in place. Extra pocket reinforcement is standard. We offer several pocket types including, flip flop, velcro insert, tie in, and leech wrap. Our standard is flip flop but we always recommend the velcro insert.	Overhead leech lines are standard for boats over 40'. The leech line runs up the leech, around a block at the head and down the luff. This is ideal when your boom is high in the air making it hard to get at a standard leech line.

Headsail

Headsail Clew	Headsail Tack and Head
An appropriate but oversized press ring will be used so that using large or multiple sheets is not a problem. These rings come in 14mm, 20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 35mm, 40mm, 50mm and 60mm sizes. As always this ring will be reinforced with webbing straps.	A furling head sail will have a webbing loop at the tack and head. This is best because the webbing loop allows the sail to easily roll around itself while having its corners remain fixed. Webbing comes in 25mm, 30mm and 38mm sizes.
UV Protection	Velcro Tab Leech and Foot Lines
Dacron or Sunbrella (Acrylic) UV Protection is added to furling head sails to protect the sail cloth when furled. We use a special formula to ensure your sail has enough uv protection but not too much as this adds unnecessary weight to your sail. UV is placed along the leech and foot of the sail and standard colors are White, Navy Blue, Pacific Blue, Forest Green, Black, Grey, Red, and Burgundy.	Velcro tab leech and foot line ends are used because they hold their position best when the sail is flogging. A velcro pocket covers the lines and ensures everything is protected from the sun.
Foam Luff	Tell Tale Window
A Foam Luff provides better sail shape and cleaner leading edge by flattening the sail as it is furled. This means improved performance in reefed conditions. Foam luff is recommended in most cases but if you are in very humid conditions a rope will be used instead of foam. This will always be placed on the opposite side as your UV Protection.	Tell tale windows are a round window placed at the tell tales of a head sail so you can see the tell tales on the opposite side of the sail easily. This is an additional option you can add to your sail.

5. Sail Design

Perfect Sails Start With Perfect Design

Software	Analysis
Designed using industry leading Sail Design software Sail Pack, your sails will always have a leading edge. Don't be fooled by other online sail companies that don't and can't design your sails. All designs are done in our head office and our designers customize every order, unlike many sail makers in the industry, Nothing is standard.	3D Modeling to understand strain and load paths of the sail cloth is done on all sails. Cloth warp and fill fibre orientation is taken into account for proper load assessment. Areas of high load and the effects of the bias elongation with a Cunningham, halyard and out haul tensions are also considered. Custom modeling for each clients sail, taking into considerations, mast bend, rake, boom position, head widths and custom leech roaches is a critical part of every design.
Customized	Designers
All of our sails are custom designed specifically for your boat, not for another like it. Just like people, every boat is different, even production model boats have differences. By customizing every design not only do you get the best possible fitting sail, you're also able to make changes that you wouldn't get to otherwise. For example have you ever wanted to be able to see under your head sail better? Maybe your boom keeps hitting your dodger or even your head? Both of these are easily solved with our custom design. This means you don't get a reused sail design originally for someone else. Sails designs are always available upon request. Just ask us and we'll be happy to send your design to you.	Because we design all of our sails in house, you always have an opportunity to speak with one of our sail designers about your sail. Just ask and we'll even give you a personal design overview. Professional service and professional advice means you get prompt, courteous and expert customer service. We understand that purchasing new sails can be confusing and we are here to make it pain free, informative and enjoyable.

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Sail Build Specifications

1. Sail Cloth

At Precision Sails We Use Only First-Run Sail Cloth

Cruising

Economy Dacron

Radial Dinghy Laminate

Challenge High Modulus Dacron

Challenge Marblehead / Fibre 104 Dacron

Advanced Cruising

Flexible Mylar Taffeta Laminate (Radial)

Custom Vectran Strung Laminate (Radial)

CDX Polyester Radial Cruise Laminate (Contender)

Hydra Net Radial (Dimension-Polyant)

Challenge Warp Drive Dacron (Radial)

Tetraneema Radial Laminate

Club Racing

Structured Tape Technora

Club Technora

Black Polyester Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)

Twaron Advanced Membrane

Carbon / Twaron Advanced Membrane

Carbon Advanced Membrane

Performance Racing

Twaron Advanced Membrane

Black X-Tech Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)

Carbon / Technora Advanced Membrane

GPL GraphX Performance Radial Laminate (Dimension-Polyant)

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2. Off Shore Specifications

Strong as Rock, Light as a Feather

Double Tape

Wide Seams

Reinforcements

Hardware Upgrades

3. Sail Hardware

Hardware You Can Trust

Battens

Receptacles

Sliders

Hanks

Cleats

Rings

Headboards

Blocks

Thread

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4. Sail Craftsmanship

Perfect Right Down To The Last Detail

General

Stitching

Corner Patches

Lines

Reinforcement Webbing

Tell Tales

Draft Stripes

Tapes

Sail Bag

Sail Number

Insignia

Mainsail

Mainsail Clew

Clew Slug

Mainsail Tack

Mainsail Head

Reef Points

Sliders

Cunningham

Flattener

Batten Pockets

Overhead Leech Line

Headsail

Headsail Clew