[Public-List] [Public-list] Bilge (main sail shape)

[Hugh McCormack]

Good day John,

 

Do you know if Triton kept the design for your mainsail?  If so, it would speed up the building process and maybe reduce the cost of other sails made to that design.

 

Cheers,

 

Hugh
 
> From: Sunstone at cogeco.ca
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:53:13 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] [Public-list] Bilge (main sail shape)
> 
> Hi Gord
> 
> When my first main was built in 95 I was woefully unhappy with it, Joe had 
> used the more modern style with deep shelf - it was way over powered with 
> far too much shelf. If you look at an OEM Taylor Main (A Fernandez built by 
> the way - he used to work for Tom Taylor) you will notice it was fairly flat 
> and little shelf.
> 
> He took the main back and built a new one and asked me to come down a help 
> him loft it - what an opportunity to lean from a master
> 
> I told him the end results I wanted to see and then he redesigned the sail 
> to accommodate
> (snipped)
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