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Wilbur Hubbard Wilbur Hubbard is offline
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Default America's Cup sail design

How many times are you going to say this


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oups.com...
...
All seamless string sails do have seams. Molded sail technology
relies on
flat mylar in a roll form, they broad seam the mylar for the initial
shape.
Ain't marketing a great?


Yeah, I know a sail maker who worked with a major on the last cup and
he claimed that they routinely re-cut "molded" sails but their license
with North required that they cover any seams with draft stripes. I
guess the marketing boys didn't want to confuse the general public...

-- Tom.