RACING SAILS

Mariner Sails makes the most up to date racing sail designs and we use state of the art sailcloth by Dimension Polyant Sailcloth.

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What is so special about our Racing Sails? Our sails are designed and constructed with fast shapes that have superior performance in a wide range of wind and sea conditions. How is this done? This is done by using advanced techniques in computer aided design and computer plotting of the panels and a background in fluid dynamics. Mariner Sails utilizes the newest technology in the construction of our racing sails; that is the use of gluing seams with Ultra-Bond. The advantages of this system of bonding seams are that it eliminates any stretch or creep that occurs in sewn seams. It was shown that a sailcloth strip with an Ultra-Bond seam exhibits exactly the same resistance to stretch as the same strip of fabric without a seam. This method thus produces a sail that is as smooth as a seamless sail, but with the advantages of the efficient high pressure laminated panels and extremely low probability of delamination as found in seamless or "molded" sails.

S/V Blizzard on her way to another win.

• The result is a sail that is smoother and constructed lighter and with greater strength for a fast and efficient sail with good longevity.
• The use of high quality composite laminate or woven fabrics. Cloth options such as:
  • Kevlar interwoven with Dacron
  • Kevlar and Technora X plies
  • Technora
  • One Design Deacon and Dacron Square Weaves
  • PBO; for the high end high performance Sails
• For Race/Cruise sails there is also a line of laminates highly suited for the task.

Offshore Race; Spectra Laminates and other quality laminates

Mariner Sails J-24 racing with it's "Grand Prix" mainsail and ultra light true 0.5 ouce spinnaker.

Batten combinations for mainsails

        IOR or IMS long battens

It is some what important that two lower battens remain long battens and not full. The first is that the lower part of the sail is easier to shape when not full length and the second is, that it removes a lot of extra weight from the sail and the third is that the sail is much easier to reef.

        FULL BATTENS

S/V Tintagel, Winner of two Round Admiralty Island races.

Racing sail cut configuration options.

Grand Prix or Standard Race Cross Cut Dacron or Kevlar with radial patches.

Grand Prix or Standard Race Radial Cut with radial patches.

Sail Options

For mainsails:

Number of reefs

Shelf foot

Loose foot with shelf

Leech line ending at tack

Draft stripes (S)

Sail Numbers (S)

For Genoas, Blades and Jibs

Spreader patches ( S )

Stantion patches ( S )

Tell tail windows ( S )

  Leech and foot cords (S )

   ( S) = Standard

Mariner Sails J-24 racing phrf with it's suit of "Grand Prix" quality laminate sails with smooth seams put together with the "Ultra Bond system.

Spinnakers

Mariner Sails makes a spinnaker employing sophisticated computer aided design methods and plotting that produces smooth and efficient spinnakers that are race and offshore proven. We utilize a true tri - radial design spinnakers that orient the panels to the load lines making it stronger allowing it to maintain its shape.

 

Mariner Sails
705 Cook Street
Ketchikan, Alaska 99901
Ph/Fax: 907-225-2983
lbsail@marinersails.com

 

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