Posted by John Nichols on August 09, 2005 at 20:14:24 from 165.91.196.16 user Mcneacail.
I just received the following quote from S Warman for the sails for the Mary Anne and the Swallow. 398 pounds is 720 USD.
Anyone bought sails recently? Is this a normal range of costs. The Swallow is identical to the Scarab sail and the Pram is about 3/4 ths size.
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Hi John
Those are some pretty severe working conditions, coupled with a two build project!
Both the plans came through. I think you're right about a slightly bigger sail for the pram, and thats something my designer would love to get his teeth into. I also think a set of reefs in a bigger sail would be prudent.
The sail for the Scarab will cost GBP 498.00.
The sail for the Norwegian Pram will cost GBP 398.00 including 1 Row of reefs.
I would recommend our Cruising Specification which is ideally suited to everyday sailing and good quality cruising and constructed from a densely woven cloth from Challenge that uses a low resin content. This type of cloth has a higher resistance to stretch under load than normal fabric.
The material that I would recommend is a High Modulus Dacron, which is tightly woven Polyester fiber with a minimal resin content, this will ensure the sail is both strong and durable without being stiff and heavy. The low resin content is all-important as inferior fabrics use higher resin contents to get the stability from the fabric, whereas low content gets the stability from the weave, which is far better. Resin will break down leaving what's underneath, usually a loosely woven sail that will deteriorate very quickly. It is essential to have some level of resin but lower coupled with tight weave is better as it.
The thread we use is a braided chafe, UV and abrasion resistant thread. This ensures less chance of the stitching getting caught on sharp edges and should you be unlucky enough to catch it and break a stitch it will not run. This means that the maintenance costs will be considerably less.
The batten pockets are double skinned and designed in such a way that the chafe of the batten pocket against the rigging will not cause you any problems with the structure of the sail. They offer a unique safety feature that if they were to fail, highly unlikely, the batten will pop out of the batten side and not the sail side. Needless to say mending the end of a batten pocket is far easier and cheaper than replacing a hole through the sail.
The main tack, clew and reef cringles will be reinforced with Jeckells webbing to ensure greater strength.
Mainsail:
. Cross cut Mainsail constructed from 4.93oz US Challenge High Modulus Dacron cloth · Overlapped and glued seams sewn using UV, chafe and abrasion resistant thread · Graduated strengthening patches · Standard battens in elasticated batten pockets · Leech line · Sail number and insignia · Sail bag
These are sails made in a white cloth, but we could make them from a coloured cloth at an additional 15%.
I hope that this goes some way to helping you. So if you want to purchase the Jeckells sails, don't hesitate to let me know, as with a small deposit of 1/3 will hold the price for up-to 2 years. We have found this to work very well with our self builders as often built times do increase and then you can suffer from increased costs.
If you required further specifications on the sails, please email and I'll happily send on information.
If this is acceptable I'll find out a price for carriage to your door.
Kindest regards
Steve Warman
00 44 1 603 782223