Technology
Fabric technology
The cloth is where every sail begins. We specify from a full range of laminates, woven polyesters, composites and spinnaker cloths, and the right one depends on your boat, your budget and the conditions you sail in.
The range
Seven fabrics, one decision.
Every fabric here is specified and built to a Doyle Sails design. Pick the one that suits your programme, or tell us the boat and we will specify it for you.
A warp oriented laminate for the serious club racer, in boats up to forty-two feet. Black Aramid warp and a custom black fibre coating for UV life.
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Lite Skin brought to the crosscut range. Technical performance and shape holding without moving to a full radial laminate.
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Premium polyester woven with paired denier yarns in a ripstop pattern. Reduced stretch in all three directions.
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A low-stretch cruising sandwich laminate with a 9° X-PLY, developed for durability and easy furling.
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Carbon and Vectran, one hundred per cent opaque. Built for Performance Cruisers from fifty to eighty feet and Superyachts.
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Spinnaker cloth with a melamine finish, in fifteen colours. Matched to your yacht by size and the conditions you sail in.
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A polyurethane-coated range covering every type of performance spinnaker, in twelve colours.
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Matched to how you sail.
If you already know the boat and the programme, this narrows it quickly.
Warp oriented and crosscut laminates for boats up to forty-two feet, where the budget is real and the racing is serious.
Low stretch and easy handling, with surfaces that stand up to furling, UV and a long season away from a loft.
Carbon and Vectran under an opaque composite surface, for the loads a fifty to eighty foot yacht and above will generate.
Spinnaker cloths chosen by weight and luff length, combined where needed to hit the right strength-to-weight ratio.
Beyond the cloth
Fabric is one half of the answer.
Cloth decides what a sail is made of. How the load runs through it is a separate question, and that is where STRATIS, HYBRID and Structured Luff come in.
For most programmes we specify both together: the right fabric, engineered with the right load paths for your rig.
Sail technologyNot sure which cloth?
Tell us the boat and how you sail it. We will specify the fabric around it.
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