Sails

Day 2 (26 Mar 2025) in the boat yard was dedicated to rigging and sails. With the rigger/ sail makers we pulled all the sails off the boat and with the ones we brought with us headed to the park across the street from the loft to unroll, measure and assess.

We have 8 sails in the inventory.

Main sail - it's been sitting in the stack pack for years without it being properly covered - UV Damage. It was useful to pull measurements from. But it went in the dumpster. We didn't have high hopes that this would be salvageable so it's no great loss.
Genny from the new boat. The consensus is this sail likely came with boat from Taiwan 35 years ago... it was large - like a 160. When we did the survey, this was the one in the forward berth. At the time it was made, it was made to a high standard and included Kevlar reinforcing. Today it was badly delaminated and significant UV Damage. Measurements and dumpster.
Another "Genny"/ Jib - like a 110. It is made of heavier material and is in good shape - likely recut into our new Stay Sail.
Staysail/ Yankee cut - might actually predate the boat - dumpster
Asymmetric Spinnaker - this is the one that came w the boat. Years in the sail locker were not kind to it. It is actually a bit small for its purpose. Donate to the charity collecting old sails for tarps for 3rd world fishermen (yes, it's a thing)
The salvaged sails from the Beneteau.....
Genny. The new boat's Mast is about 5' taller so the old boat's sails are a bit small. Likely try to sell or donate - it's got lots of life left in it.
The Code Zero. We've had a love and mostly hate relationship with this sail. It's only been used a handful of times. It's too small for its purpose on the new boat - try to sell it.
Our custom Asymmetric Spinnaker. It's a bit small, but as a result is useful on higher winds than before. Keep.

So if you are keeping score, we are recutting 1 and using 1. 2 out of 8. Not a great percentage, but inline with what we were expecting.

Quantum Sails in New Orleans are designing and making our new Genny and Mainsail. The expectations going into sail design are:

Main Sail

New Fully Battened
3 Reef Points
African Swallow Artwork
Large Roach - the aft stay is well aft of the boom because of the center cockpit. This allows the sail to be designed with a much larger roach giving us a much larger sail especially down towards the lower part of the sail, where we want more power anyway.

Genny

>160%
Can be used with the Staysail depending on Wind angle

On Roller Furler
European Swallow Artwork
This is larger than we've had before, but the plan is to aggressively reef it so to balance the energy. This will serve as our Code Zero fully deployed, but as winds increase, we'll reef it down to a more comfortable 135 and lower.

Stay Sail

Recut the old 110
On Roller Furler
No artwork
Used either with the Genny or stand alone in higher winds after the headsail is furled due to wind loading

Code Zero

For now we are going to use the money to build a new one and properly rig it for other higher priority projects
We will revisit later if it becomes an apparent hole in our available sail plans

Asymmetric Spinnaker/ Kite

For now we are going to use our salvaged Asymmetric Spinnaker. We know it's a bit undersized, but we can't realistically enlarge it based on the 3D shape it forms. With it being smaller, we can use it in higher winds than we might have - we'll have to try different combinations. We will also likely use it more aggressively if we have wind behind the beam. We had this specially designed with our artwork and really don't want to loose it.
If we decide we really want a full size spinnaker, we can have one made in the future
Finally, we have the skills/ experience to sail wing on wing which is the alternative to flying a traditional spinnaker. We will use this technique if we are truly headed deep downwind.

Storm Sail/ TriSail

We had discussed this, but for now it's going to stay discussion. The mast does not have the appropriate track to rig it.

Anchor Sail

Have the old on in storage, does not require special rigging