Cruising
Sails for the long way round.
A cruising sail is asked to do the quiet work: hold its shape through a long passage, come down easily at the end of it, and still look right on your yacht in ten years. We build for all three, and we sail what we build.
Comfort is not the opposite of performance.
Too many cruising sails are built down to a price and asked to last a decade. We take the other route: fibres mapped to the loads your yacht actually carries, so the sail keeps its designed shape season after season. A sail that holds shape is a sail that heels less, points higher and asks less of you.
By sailors, for sailors.
Specified for your yacht
The constructions we specify most often for cruising programmes, from coastal seasons to ocean crossings.
Product range
Our cruising STRATIS. Fibres and surfaces specified sail by sail, finished in GPC taffeta and built in New Zealand, with a warranty of three, four or five years and no length limit.
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Product range
Woven cloth built the traditional way, for owners who want a dependable, easily serviced inventory and a classic look on deck.
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Product range
A cost effective membrane for yachts under sixty feet, delivered in four to six weeks, with STRATIS kept open as an upgrade when the programme grows.
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Sail technology
Code sails that fly without a torsion cable, for more luff projection, less weight in the bow and wider sailing angles. Top down or bottom up furling.
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Sail handling
The StackPack. Hoist it, drop it, walk away.
The StackPack is a fully battened mainsail with integral lazy jacks and a Sunbrella cover that opens on its own to take the sail as it comes down. Raised, the cover holds tight against the sail so the aerodynamics stay clean.
Reef lines pass through the cover, the zipper tail stays secured, and your existing main can serve as the base sail. You will not fit a sail cover by hand again.
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