Has anyone purchased a new sail from Direct-sails.com?

Below is a page from the 26 U manual. It has the hoist foot and suggested leach. From these numbers you hold the “foot” square to the hoist or mast and then the actual foot is a line from the bottom of the hoist(luff) to the bottom of the leach.

leach girth (also square to the hoist/luff) will give you the roach. Drawings always have a nice curve but between battens it should be a straight line.

I have measured 4 sails and they are all different. Close but different. Botts has a larger roach. Old sails are stretched and are larger. My new sail, North, made in Sri Lanka, is heavy, stiff, but has a really nice shape and is powerful. At first I wasn’t sure but it works well and reefs well, and I am very happy with it.

Also the weight varies. Heaviest sail with slides and battens (North) comes to 64 pounds. Lightest is 45. The cloth you choose is as big a deal as the cut. Then you must choose standard battens, full length battens, or only one full length top batten.

Warning! :fire: The numbers for the reef points look like they are right but they are labeled wrong! CLEW should be TACK and TACK should be CLEW.:fire: Now, most sailmakers would catch this error but if they just blindly go forward you might have some issues later.

I took these numbers and put them into CAD. Also, background is a drawing from the manual and way in back is John Newel’s gaff rig for comparison.

26 Sailplan from Owners Manual.pdf (31.9 KB)

Or a share link may work for you, CAD here Onshape

Tom

26 C # 28 North Star

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