[Public-List] Sails, Jib & Spi halyard

[Don Campbell]

Michael;
    It is my understanding that Kurt Hansen of Whitby Boat Works worked 
with Tom Taylor Sails in Toronto to get the original sails onto Alberg 
30s but never made any attempt to do it themselves. The  sailmaker  at 
Taylor's was Joe Fernandes, and he built the sails for those boats Kurt 
sold with sails aboard including Jerry Keddy's Opus, hull #1. There were 
some buyers who bought boats without factory delivered sails.
     When Taylor's closed their business, Joe started up his own loft 
and called it Triton. Sails. It seems to me that there was as much art 
as theory in sails before computer designs took over and so older 
sailmakers knew how a boat sailed and built sails accordingly. One would 
like to think that the characters who build computer programmes for sail 
design know how boats sail too, but that may be a stretch, (even in 
dacron)!
    Joe has been dead for about 6 years now, but Triton still carries on 
under the ownership of his wife and son. Both work in the loft every 
day.  The seamstresses and many of the employees are still those 
employed by Joe. Maggie Ross also worked for Taylor and she ultimately 
was the Canadian sail loft for UK sails, so Taylor had several very good 
sailmakers within their firm.
    I have the original sails for hull #469 and they are Ratsey and 
Lapthorne's from New York City, so there are a number of other 
sailmakers who have built sails for Alberg 30's. Personally, I like 
Triton's as well as any I have sailed with. I do know they have changed 
construction techniques to accommodate the newer fabrics, newer design 
principles and building methods,  but there is some of the art still in 
these sails because both Joe and Ron have  sailed on Alberg 30s.
Don #528

dickdurk at atlanticbb.net wrote:
>
>> TRITON Sails in Toronto, which is the original sailloft that made the 
>> Alberg Sails 
>
> I'm pretty sure Murphy & Nye built Checkmate's original sails. I 
> imagine there is a whole lot of variation in how the factory handled 
> sail construction. I also suspect there is a whole lot of smoke and 
> mirrors in "branding" sails, especially since high tech fabrics are 
> not allowed in class rules.
>
> MichaelGrosh
> #220
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