Coastal Sail Range

Introducing our new Touring range of sails.

 
 Coastal Sails are Cross Cut Dacron Cruising Sails built from Blue Water Cruise Dacron (BCD) a cloth originally developed for charter fleets that needed a long lasting durable material that could stand up to daily use in the Caribbean. Providing high standard of finish but without our normal customisation. Custom options are limited and cloth weight is fixed. By keeping the sail production standard and based on proven design templates, CSF are able to streamline production and therefore minimise labour and material costs to provide amazing value whilst still maintaining CSF’s renowned standards for quality and durability. The Coastal Range offer the ultimate value for Dacron sails for yachts from 6m (18ft) to 13m (45ft). The sails are available in the following types

Mainsails Headsails
Standard Mainsail with one full top batten and three short lower battens Furling Headsail
In Mast Hollow Leech Furling Mainsail Hanked Headsail

Standard features which are required and that offer the greatest value and durability.

 
1. Aluminium Anodised Headboard
　
2. Hard Braid Bolt Rope or webbed on slides for mainsail
　
3. Wool or Nylon Telltales
　
4. Rugged Polyester leechlines
　
5. Leech and Foot lines secured by V-Cleats on smaller sails and Clamcleats on larger sails
　
6. Drawstring Bag in a standard colour
　
7. Top full and 3 short flat Vinylester battens
　
8. Luff box on top full batten
　
9. Block corner Reinforcing Patches
　
10.1 or 2 rows of 3 step stitching with UV bonded thread
　
11. Slides for Mainsails sewn on by machine
　
12. Mainsails batten pockets with Velcro leech closures
　
13. Strong polyester webbing at head and tack on h
 　
14. Luff tape or Swedish hanks on Headsails


Options
A number of options are available.


 Mainsails Headsails
1. Reefs
　
2. Cunningham
　
3. Upgrade to Headsail double Zipper Bag
　
4. UV Cover on Furling headsail Leech and
Foot
5. Upgrade to Mainsail Zipper Bag
　
6. UV Cover on Furling mainsail clew
　
7. Sail Numbers in Blue
　
8. Foam Luff
　
9. Sail Numbers in Blue
　
10. Rutgerson Load bearing slides
　
11. Head or tack Pennants

These sails are not out of place on the race course or in the ocean. In fact we have achieved several National Championships in small keelboats and Circumnavigations of Tasmania.

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