Mariner Sails in Ketchikan, Alaska

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

TRADITIONAL AND HISTORICAL SAILS

Louie Bartos, Master Sail MakerMariner Sails is dedicated to the making of traditional sails with the same methods and workmanship that prevailed before the advent of mass produced sails that lack finishing for cost cutting profits. This type of sailmaking is very important for those discriminating traditional and historical boat owners who want to maintain the integrity of the vessels style, type or period.

Mariner Sails will make traditional sails of any style, such as gaff, gaff topsails, lug, sprite, miter or scotch cut jibs, to name a few. We also make historical reproductions, square and trapezoidal sails, staysails, square sprite sails and the like and made to the specifications of the vessels period in history. An example of such a reproduction is in this photograph of the Brig Lady Washington of Grays Harbor Washington. (photo by Sean Duggan )


The photo shows the quality sails for this Dutch custom designed 44 foot offshore cruising boat.

We have successfully married modern synthetic sailcloth and sail performance design to traditional quality workmanship where you can still have the classic features with modern perfomance.

  • Hand-worked(sewn) rings and eyelets
  • Old style cringles
  • Boltroping
  • Rattailed terminals of boltropes
  • Miter cut jibs when requested to match historical replication.
  • Hand sewn jib hanks.
  • Internal hand worked headboards, when requested.
  • Traditional corner patches
  • Hand worked strainers form rings and/or cringles (optional )

Mariner Sails also makes traditional sails using the new Oceanus, sailcloth for those discriminating sailors who are looking for a sail that has the look and feel of cotton, but has the strength and exceptional durability of a modern polyester sailcloth. Oceanus is available in natural, canvas and tanbark colors.

Other sailcloth Mariner Sails uses for traditional and historic sail reproduction is a synthetic canvas by Richard Hayward, the sailcloth used for the Brig Lady Washington, also a Dacron refered to as "Egyptian Cream" and Tanbark Dacron.