Gentry Chautaqua Sails and Sailmaking for Canada.
We make Sails for the Gentry Chautaqua SOF canoe. Balance lug sails have a special reef setup from our decades of sailing canoe experience
Sailbag Quoting, how to use the single sailbag
How one sailbag can be enough for many sails. Jibs, Mainsail and Mizzen may be better in one bag for most common boat sizes.
Request Sail Quote or Contact Really Simple Sails by Form or Email
Contact us for a competitive sail quote. We manufacture gaff and lug sails through to Laminate Square tops We Deliver Worldwide.List of previously made sails available here 1/ Request Sail Quote from Really Simple Sails The request form takes a few seconds to load. If Form Doesn’t Appear Use Email at top of page or …
Buy Sail for Bevin’s Skiff – Two Sail Options
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.
RSS Stock Sail finds its way onto an experimental trimaran.
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.
News from the Texas 200 mile event – mast broken, fixed, boat continues
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.
Sailmaking for some cool Boats April 2018 – lugs, mizzens, cutters
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.
Sailmaking for some very cool boats this month March 2018
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
Miscellaneous sails made by Really Simple Sails Sailmaker
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.
Vladimir in Russia and his Annabelle Skiff Sail
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 Payment Turbos his Bevin’s Skiff – Frankenskiff
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
Three sets of Really Simple Sails at Lauwersmeer RAID, Netherlands.
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”.
Balance lug for Iain Oughtred plan Elfyn.
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.
Information – Tanbark sails and other colours from dinghy to small yacht size
Tanbark sails and other fabrics available by direct order. Please be aware that as of late 2018 the prices of Tanbark fabrics have blown out substantially trebling in price. Where requested for tanbark we will also provide a price for white as a comparison. Cream sailcloth is becoming difficult to obtain in Dinghy weights
Main and Mizzen Sails for Jim Michalak’s Haps Cut ketch
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.