re-cutting a mainsail

[AIDY]

does anyone have any experience of re-cutting a mainsail. I have a spare mainsail that's new, that was made wrong for my boat a few years ago. it's made from norlam a cruising laminate, it's tri radial 3/4 batterened. It's a lovely sail but the problem is that it's 150mm too short in the boom length. so at present would make an ideal cruising sail.

Just wondering if the cost wasn't too great it may be easy to mod it to the exact size. Would a sailmaker take on a project like this ????

 

[flaming]

Norlam is North's fabric right? Have you asked them?

As I understand it (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) North fabrics are unique to North, so it might be difficult for another sailmaker to get the fabric necessary to do that scale of addition of cloth. I don't know if North will supply it to other sailmakers, but I can imagine that they wouldn't be keen.

 

[seumask]

Your proposal sounds like an extension to the sail, in my limited experience its much harder to extend things than it is to cut them down. Welcome to your higher wind / crusing sail as it is.
Depending on the profile of the roach etc. you may well find that the 150mm makes no real difference.

 

[AIDY]

yup your right in what you say. And deep down i think i knew what you chaps would say. Looks like i have a new cruising sail /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I expect it would cost too much to get it modded and would be too much effort.

 

[Juggler7823]

You could try to sell the sail and put the money towards a new full sized sail.

 

[Eygthene]

Aidy,

If your North triradial main is anything like as complicated a structure as my North triradial Genoa, I don't think it will be at all easy for the sailmaker to make it 150mm longer in the foot.




For cruising it would be absolutely fine as it is. I am assuming that you were hoping to use it for racing if it could be made full size. I'm sure Norths would be willing to talk to you about it. They seem to keep very detailed records of the sails that they design and make for customers.

 

[charles_reed]

Doubt it, if a laminate.

 

[AIDY]

thank's for all the comments... It's possibly not norlam then as it's not a north sail. I will investigate the actual material.