Quality Cruising Sails
Mauri MX Vectran (Custom Axis Laminate Sails) are high quality, durable cruising
sails. They are finished to Offshore specifications. They are modern designs
and hand crafted to high standards with all the features that a good offshore
sail should have. Yet they are available at the price of a Dacron sail. A good
Dacron sail that is, fully specified, and they should be compared to such sails
when it comes to price. Long term performance, on the other hand, is greatly
superior to that of a Dacron sail.
What are Custom Axis Laminate Sails?
• Custom
Axis Laminate Sails are a membrane
design using crosscut panels parallel to the foot.
• The load lines of the sail are computer analysed
and a primary and secondary load direction determined.
These load lines are specific to each individual
sail design. Primary fibres address leech loads and
secondary fibres address load lines running into
the luff.
• The two load line fibres are custom strung each in
straight parallel lines across the sail panel.
• Fiber density is varied across the panel with the maximum
at the leech, decreasing towards the luff to provide
the appropriate amount of denier in each part of the
sail.
• The bottom two or three panels (depending on sail size)
have a vertical seam. The forward part of these panels
has both primary and secondary fibres strung in symmetrically
reverse directions to address tack loads.
• The top panel is vertical and 2800 mm deep to provide
continuous fibre to meet the increased loads in the
head.
• Patches are oversized with the outermost patch custom
strung with radial fibres.
•
Custom Axis Laminate Sails have a woven 85 grams per
m² Polyester Taffeta laminated to both sides of
the sail. The Taffeta has large denier yarns providing
additional fill strength and chafe resistance.
• The Taffeta is laminated with an antifungicide additive
for mildew and mold protection.
•
Pentex® and Vectran® fibres are used in Custom
Axis Laminate Sails. Pentex has 2½ times the
stretch resistance of ordinary polyester. Vectran exceeds
Kevlar in stretch resistance and does not suffer from “creep”,
a slow and permanent elongation of the fibre over time,
commonly associated with spectra. Both fibres have
excellent flex resistance suitable for cruising sails.
• UV protection is addressed using an industry first
100% UV block film. Although greater in gauge, this
is the exact same film as is laminated to glass used
in cars and buildings to prevent UV fading damage to
interior furnishings. Designed to block all damaging
UV, this film, considerably more costly than conventional
mylar sail cloth films, greatly enhances the longevity
and sustained performance of every Mauri MX4 Performance
Cruising Sail.
Standard Specifications
Standard Specifications are quite detailed
and do not leave room for many optional extras. A few
are possible if you need them but generally the sails
include all the features you would expect to find in
a high quality sail.
• Mainsails come as standard with 2 reefs, 4 full battens
in vinyl ester and but we can acommodate any batten
set up. Leech line (overhead on larger sizes), foot
line and Cunningham are standard, as are leech tell
tails and draft stripes. Appropriate slides and luff
boxes are provided. Reefs have pressed in rings and
the forward one has a dog bone fitted. Size 5 up have
reef connectors.
• Options are a third reef, single line reefing blocks
and sail numbers.
• Furling mains have clew blocks and UV cover to the
leech and foot in the clew area.
• Headsails all have a UV Dacron cover to foot and leech,
a foam luff, leech and foot lines with clam cleats
and are available with luff tape or hanks.
• Jibs (below 100%) have denser fibre layouts.
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