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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
A great article from the Open Goose website on setting up lug rigs of all types.
A sail for the Saturday Night Special designed by John Welsford. And some setup tips from John Goodman.
RSS is now getting sails laser cut by a third party to our designs. We can now make affordable custom sails and have access to a much larger selection of materials and fabrics.
A crease in the sail is a common problem that is easily remedied. Here we go through a quick diagnosis and correct setup.
