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Todd Frye
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Initially Posted - 02/06/2004 :  13:58:16  Show Profile
Has anyone out there attempted sewing their own spinnaker? Are plans available? Any advice and/or experiences would be appreciated, Thank you. Todd Frye
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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  14:06:06  Show Profile
Todd, check this site out. They've been around a long time.


http://www.sailrite.com/
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  14:59:12  Show Profile
If you are looking to sew your own for the sense of accomplishment, then Sailrite has kits available for you to do that.

On the other hand, if you are looking to do this to save some bucks, it is cheaper to buy a ready-to-fly assymetrical spinnaker from CruisingDirect for $679.00 than it is to buy the Sailrite assymetrical kit for $722.48.
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John Mason
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  16:03:54  Show Profile
I bought the Sailrite cruising spinnaker kit in the summer of 2002. The price has gone up - I paid $540 for it.

It was a great kit - all pieces precut with guidelines to follow, very complete instructions. I used a normal sewing machine (I think this is about the only sail kit you could do that with). The corners tested the machine's abilities. The nice thing about the kit is you can pick the color of each and every panel. The premade sails offered by various companies don't give you that choice (and custom spinnakers are expensive).
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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  17:16:12  Show Profile
Dad made a spinniker for his Dragon probably 50 years ago. I remember helping with the panels, but he did all the sewing part of the project. It turned out to be fairly simple, and he did the whole thing using white and light blue nylon for his sail.
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 02/06/2004 :  19:54:48  Show Profile
I made a radial head spinnaker for Encore! from a Sailrite kit, but it was a LONG time ago, like 1984! It's quite a bit of work, and you need quite a lot of room to loft each panel. I remember gluing all the seams and sewing that sucker on a regular machine. It is amazing how BIG those boogers are when you sew every seam. To tell you the truth...I'd probably be a used one or maybe an Asian sail (Lee?) before I would do it again, but you DO get a sense of accomplishment!

Come up to the Nationals in Portland, Todd, and I will show you pictures of Encore! flying it on a reach, tacked like a cruising chute. We were doing 7.5 knots when the photo was taken. Hey, I just remembered, it was used as the template for the picture on the commemorative Nationals shirts!!

I don't have the sail any longer. It was still in decent shape, but I basically traded it for a cruising chute a few years ago.

Gary B.
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