Custom Sails Archives - Really Simple Sails https://reallysimplesails.com/category/custom-sails/ Order a Sail for your homebuilt boat - Lug, Gaff, Laminate, Jib Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:26:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://reallysimplesails.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-ReallySimpleSailsLogo-square-Small-1-32x32.jpg Custom Sails Archives - Really Simple Sails https://reallysimplesails.com/category/custom-sails/ 32 32 Shipped, Hobie Adventure Island Sail Customer Review https://reallysimplesails.com/buy-hobie-adventure-island-sails-worldwide/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:43:18 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=2142 Hobie Adventure Island Sails - We are making sails and shipping internationally for Hobie Adventure Island and Tandem Adventure Island

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]]> Buy Sails for Canoe Sailing Rigs https://reallysimplesails.com/buy-sails-for-canoe-sailing/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:20:41 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=2039 Decisions about options for Canoe Sailing Rigs. And overview of our part in designing the rig to suit your canoe.

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]]> Types of Lug Sails. Standing Lug, balance Lug, Dipping Lug or Misainier https://reallysimplesails.com/what-type-of-lug-sail-is-that-standing-balance-dipping-or-misainier/ Wed, 03 May 2023 07:42:26 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=1874 What do the different lugsail types look like and what are the basic differences? How to choose? Drawings and photos of Balance Lug, Standing Lug, Misainier, Dipping Lug and Gunter Lug.

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]]> Will RSS Stock Lug Sails Work on my Boat, check boat balance, spar lengths, sizes. https://reallysimplesails.com/rss-stock-lug-sails-other-boats/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:35:41 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=1473 Fitting our stock sails to other boats. Check for compatibility and guides for spar sizes and setups for GIS, Oz Goose, Viola, Kombi and Canoe Sails

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]]> Web Resources for Lugsail Setup for Sail Boats https://reallysimplesails.com/web-resources-for-lugsail-setup-for-sail-boats/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:29:53 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=1396 Lug Sails were our originally speciality before we moved into sailmaking 7 years ago. We started off with lugs in the late 1980s with an interest in finding how modern performance sailing techniques and setups would work with lugsails.

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]]> Gentry Chautaqua Sails and Sailmaking for Canada. https://reallysimplesails.com/chautaqua-sails-sailmaking/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:59:50 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=1106 We make Sails for the Gentry Chautaqua SOF canoe. Balance lug sails have a special reef setup from our decades of sailing canoe experience

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]]> Buy Sail for Bevin’s Skiff – Two Sail Options https://reallysimplesails.com/buy-sail-for-bevins-skiff-two-sail-options/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:07:00 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=945 We have two Sail Options for the Buy Sail Bevin's Skff - a large stock sail available off the shelf and the original standard sail that takes 5 to 8 weeks for our sailmakers to delivery.

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]]> RSS Stock Sail finds its way onto an experimental trimaran. https://reallysimplesails.com/rss-stock-sail-finds-its-way-onto-an-experimental-trimaran/ Wed, 08 May 2019 04:32:54 +0000 https://reallysimplesails.com/?p=908 This is simply the 89 square foot Oz Goose balance lugsail on a trimaran showing just how our simple stock sails can be fitted to a wide variety of different small boats.

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]]> News from the Texas 200 mile event – mast broken, fixed, boat continues https://reallysimplesails.com/news-from-the-texas-200-mile-event-mast-broken-fixed-boat-continues/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:15:04 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=840 We made a Expedition sail for Chuck Pierce. Chuck is a Texas 200 mile event veteran - sailed 5 days in enormous isolation. We made a tough balance lugsail for him.

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]]> Sailmaking for some cool Boats April 2018 – lugs, mizzens, cutters https://reallysimplesails.com/sailmaking-cool-boats-april-lugs-mizzens-cutters/ Tue, 01 May 2018 10:52:43 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=772 Custom sails and sailmaking from Really Simple Sails Sailmakers. This months sails are beautiful and a wide range of Lug, Gaff, Cutter, Yawl and other traditional sails. Even some modern full batten laminate sails.

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]]> Sailmaking for some very cool boats this month March 2018 https://reallysimplesails.com/sailmaking-for-cool-boats-march-2018/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:53:02 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=730 Some of the interesting boats and sails in our ordering and production line March 2018. Some real beauties. We are currently making Lugsails of all types, spritsails, mizzens and bermudan mains and jibs for some truly classic boats

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]]> Miscellaneous sails made by Really Simple Sails Sailmaker https://reallysimplesails.com/miscellaneous-sails-made-by-really-simple-sails/ https://reallysimplesails.com/miscellaneous-sails-made-by-really-simple-sails/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:13:03 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=678 Some of the sails we have made for other boats Alden, Somes Sound, CLC, Artemis Canoe, David Payne, Drascombe. Please contact us for pricing or a stock sail.

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]]> https://reallysimplesails.com/miscellaneous-sails-made-by-really-simple-sails/feed/ 2 Vladimir in Russia and his Annabelle Skiff Sail https://reallysimplesails.com/vladimir-in-russia-and-his-annabelle-skiff-sail/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 05:30:13 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=648 Vladimir ordered his Dave Gentry Annabelle sail for delivery to Russia. The Annabelle is a pretty Skin on Frame constructed boat and looks great with the cream sail upgrade.

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]]> Shawn Payment Turbos his Bevin’s Skiff – Frankenskiff https://reallysimplesails.com/shawn-payment-turbos-his-bevins-skiff-frankenskiff/ https://reallysimplesails.com/shawn-payment-turbos-his-bevins-skiff-frankenskiff/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2017 05:29:45 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=643 Shawn is an experienced distance sailor and wanted to turbo his Bevin's Skiff. He has put the Really Simple Sails standard 89sq ft lug on his skiff increasing the sail area but still allowing adequate reefing to smaller than the original sail

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]]> https://reallysimplesails.com/shawn-payment-turbos-his-bevins-skiff-frankenskiff/feed/ 1 Three sets of Really Simple Sails at Lauwersmeer RAID, Netherlands. https://reallysimplesails.com/three-sets-of-really-simple-sails-at-lauwersmeer-raid-netherlands/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:35:04 +0000 http://reallysimplesails.com/?p=414 Joost and Koos used three of our sails in the Lauwersmeer RAID event in the Netherlands. The 50 square foot mylar sleeve luff canoe sail on the Viola and Artemis canoes and the 105 sq ft balance lug on Joost and Viola's Goat Island Skiff "GISwerk".

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