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.
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
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.
We make Sails for the Gentry Chautaqua SOF canoe. Balance lug sails have a special reef setup from our decades of sailing canoe experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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”.
I guess the consumer electronics guys would call this an “unboxing”. Boat is an Iain Oughtred Elfyn double ender. Sanders, the builder is happy with his sail – you can read his comments.
Photos and short review of Mainsail and Mizzen for perhaps the most famous of Jim Michalak’s Hapscut cruising scows. Tested in an extremely blowy Texas 200 event.
Sails for Clint Chase’s Echo Bay Dory Skiff and his other plans and kits from really simple sails.
Standing lug sail for the Dave Gentry Designed Annabelle Skiff
A great article from the Open Goose website on setting up lug rigs of all types.