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[Sail Jazz, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA]Note: Looking for sailmakers? Unless they have an unusual downwind product, all sailmakers are shown under the more general topic, Sail Construction
Asymmetric reaching sails for cruisers, including a cruising modifications of racing′s Code Zero reacher. More stable and easier to handle than the racing designs.
[North Sails, USA]
Telescoping and non-telescoping whisker poles, some with the ability to control the length while the sail is set.
[Forespar Products Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA]
Chutescoop is a sleeve furling device for poled or flying spinnakers, and Turtleroo a specialized sail bag to hold spinnaker (in or out of the Chutescoop) and spinnaker sheets separately.
[V. F. Shaw Co. Inc., Bowie, MD, USA]
Illustrated sail construction details for several designs of spinnaker from racer to blue water cruiser. Different designs for varying points of sail.
[Neil Pryde Sails International, Milford, CT, USA]
Between a jib and a spinnaker and useful from about 35 to 150 degrees of apparent wind, the Code Zero headsail can be roller furled even without a foil. Cruising versions have trickled down from around-the-world single-handers. 2 pages with photo.
[Blue Water Sailing, May 2003]
Makes sails and canvas products. Does winter care and maintenance. Brokers used sails. Their site contains some useful articles on sails and sail handling.
[Jasper & Bailey Sailmakers, Newport, RI, USA]
The Spinnaker Sleeve helps handle free-flying sails by letting you hoist your spinnaker or genniker within the sleeve, then bring the sail out of the sleeve. The same is true in reverse: you pull the sleeve down over the sail, gathering in into a small tube, before lowering the sail.
[ATN, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA]
The Tacker allows you to fly a spinnaker or asymmetric without a pole by attaching the tack of the spinnaker to the headstay over the roller furled jib.
[ATN, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA]
The fisherman tops′l is a thing of beauty and highly functional, without a lot of complicated rigging.
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