Real MiniCup sails
 

OK, I'm finally getting tired of repairing and remaking the MiniCup
sails made from Visqueen. They work well but its time to upgrade. So,
I am now interested in making REAL sails for them. Does anybody have
any ideas? Tyvek is a temporary solution so I am thinking real dacron.
I will actually sew them (scary thought).
Any ideas?

I have seen websites of people who have bought a quantity of plain white
tyvek or of dacron sail cloth and offer to sell it off to other boat
builders. There is also at least one website with a calculator for desing
sails. If you are intersted in a sprit sail I collected some information
and put it on my website at www.ncf.ca/~ag384/SpritSail.htm (I think
that's what it's called, if not use www.ncf.ca/~ag384/Boats.htm).

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OK, I'm finally getting tired of repairing and remaking the MiniCup
sails made from Visqueen. They work well but its time to upgrade. So,
I am now interested in making REAL sails for them. Does anybody have
any ideas? Tyvek is a temporary solution so I am thinking real dacron.
I will actually sew them (scary thought).
Any ideas?



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A sailmaker?

The SailRite company sells materials, kits, etc.
http://www.sailrite.com/

Odd material is always showing up on Ebay from time to time...

Good luck,

Jonathan


wrote:

OK, I'm finally getting tired of repairing and remaking the MiniCup
sails made from Visqueen. They work well but its time to upgrade. So,
I am now interested in making REAL sails for them. Does anybody have
any ideas? Tyvek is a temporary solution so I am thinking real dacron.
I will actually sew them (scary thought).
Any ideas?

Jonathan wrote:
A sailmaker?

The SailRite company sells materials, kits, etc.
http://www.sailrite.com/

Odd material is always showing up on Ebay from time to time...

Good luck,

Jonathan


wrote:

OK, I'm finally getting tired of repairing and remaking the MiniCup
sails made from Visqueen. They work well but its time to upgrade.
So,
I am now interested in making REAL sails for them. Does anybody
have
any ideas? Tyvek is a temporary solution so I am thinking real
dacron.
I will actually sew them (scary thought).
Any ideas?


After looking over the polysails webpage, I think I will use one of
hteir kits that I will modify for the MiniCups. At eh end of their
directions, they discuss sewing over the double sided tape which I will
do.

Does anybody have any ideas for reefing the gaff rigged MiniCups?

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After looking over the polysails webpage, I think I will use one of
hteir kits that I will modify for the MiniCups. At eh end of their
directions, they discuss sewing over the double sided tape which I will
do.

Does anybody have any ideas for reefing the gaff rigged MiniCups?


I've heard of Sunfish racers reefing their lateen sails using something
called a Jens Line which holds the gaff tight to the mast. Since the gaff
is longer than the boom on the MiniCup, you may want to put your reef points
at the top of the sail.

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Andrew Butchart