Hello all,
I was looking through the scans I have of the Westsail Owners and Construction manuals and thought it might be useful to create a post with the various original and new sail dimensions and information. I would like information about any sail folks have found to work well!
Luff, leech, foot, area, material weight/type, notes from diagram or experience, designer.
If you have drawings or data for sails with question marks, please post the info or email it to me so that I may add it to the list. In addition, I have no diagrams for the W28, W39, W42, or W43. If you have sail information for those boats, please send it to me!
WESTSAIL 32
- Need original numbers for Main and stays'l
- Need numbers for Kern's short-foot main, and full batten/roach main
- Need numbers for Kern's Super Yankee everyone loves so much
Sail
|
Luff |
Leech
|
Foot
|
Area (Ft/2)
|
Material Weight/Type
|
Notes
|
Designer
|
Main (original)
|
38'3" |
15'10" |
40'6"
|
311 |
8.5oz Dacron
|
- Tack angle 88 degrees
- Roachless
|
Crealock |
Main (Kern's revision)
|
38' 4" |
39' 2" |
14.6" |
? |
Dacron
|
- 2 reef points (my choice)
- 2 full battens
- Cunningham
|
Kern
2007
Pygmalion
|
Staysail |
29' |
25'6" |
11'8"
|
149 |
8.5oz Dacron
|
?
|
Crealock |
Genoa Staysail
|
23' |
23'
|
15'6" |
188 |
5oz Dacron
|
|
Crealock |
Jib
|
35'2"
|
25'3"
|
15'8" |
177
|
5oz Dacron
|
|
Crealock
|
Small Yankee
|
40'1"
|
28'8" |
17' |
210 |
6oz Dacron
|
|
|
Yankee Jib
|
43' |
31'2"
|
18'4" |
254 |
5 or 6 oz Dacron
|
- Soft Dacron to be used if available
|
Crealock |
Yankee Large
|
43' |
37'
|
21'
|
400 |
6oz Dacron
|
|
|
Super Yankee (Kern's)
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
?
|
|
Genoa |
43'9" |
40'10"
|
22' |
445 |
4oz Dacron
|
|
Crealock |
Drifter
|
43'9" |
38'7"
|
23'4" |
450 |
1.75 or 2oz Dacron
|
|
Crealock |
Reacher-Drifter
|
43'6"
|
39'9"
|
27'6" |
535
|
2oz Dacron
|
- Miter cut
- Leech and foot lines
|
Crealock |
Reacher-Drifter Giant
|
43'2" |
40'11'
|
31'6" |
603 |
2 1/2 - 3oz (material?)
|
- Material lighter at discretion of sailmaker
|
Crealock |
Asymmetric Spinnaker
|
43'6"
|
? |
? |
950 |
.75oz Nylon
|
|
Norlund (W32 Asia Marie)
|
Asymmetric Spinnaker
|
47'
|
29'
|
35'
|
|
.75oz Nylon
|
|
Wiencke (W32 Neverland)
|
Storm Trysail
|
17'8" |
23'7"
|
11'5" |
96
|
8 or 10oz Dacron
|
- Soft weave Dacron to be used if available
- Corners heavily reinforced
- Extra stitching in seams
- Sail to be roped all around
- Provision to be made for emergency lacing to mast, either by using large cringles for slides or by providing extra cringles for lacings.
|
Crealock |
Storm Jib
|
20'4" |
13'10"
|
9'9" |
61
|
9oz Dacron
|
- Seams to be heavily sewn
- All corners well reinforced and all cringles and eyelets hand sewn
|
Crealock |
Storm Jib 2
|
14'
|
8'
|
8'
|
28 |
10oz Dacron
|
- Seams to be heavily sewn
- All corners well reinforced and all cringles and eyelets hand sewn
|
Crealock |
Spitfire Jib
|
11'
|
6'7"
|
6'7"
|
20
|
11oz Dacron
|
- Soft weave Dacron
- Heavily reinforced
|
Crealock |
Thank you all for your help!
Cheers,
Aaron N.