Arrows on sails???

Manny

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Oct 5, 2006
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Hunter 82? 37 Cutter Wherever the wind takes me
So my new to me 37 Cutter has red arrows on all three sails... I've never seen this before. Here's a pic of the staysail and the jib showing the arrows. Is this just to aid in bending them on? It looks weird...

Manny
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Nov 6, 2006
9,885
Hunter 34 Mandeville Louisiana
Sailmaker logo.. from some years back.. can't remember who !!
 

Manny

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Oct 5, 2006
978
Hunter 82? 37 Cutter Wherever the wind takes me
Yep the cylinder is my propane storage.
Sailmaker logo? That's an odd logo...
 
Nov 8, 2010
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Beneteau First 36.7 & 260 Minneapolis MN & Bayfield WI
Ah. I thought it was going to be about these ‘arrows’.

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Nov 6, 2006
9,885
Hunter 34 Mandeville Louisiana
Outstanding, Dr Judy! It has been many years since I'd seen that logo, but I remember seeing a few on the gulf coast around here.
 
May 4, 2005
4,062
Macgregor 26d Ft Lauderdale, Fl
I have seen indicators on sails, but near the belly and facing down. (to take picture here).
for sail shape/twist

it might have been UK sails. that or North.
 
Jun 14, 2010
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Seafarer 29 Oologah, OK
On my previous boat with hank-on headsails, I flaked them out and made little alternating red and green marks along the leech and luff at each fold. Then I could easily single-handedly flake the sail on deck before unbending. Did the same on the main leech to flake it on the boom. Red marks to port, green to stbd, naturally, but now and then I'd reverse it and make the folds a couple inches above or below the marks, trying to avoid creases.
 
Jun 23, 2013
271
Beneteau 373 Newport
You nailed it Dr J
Knew I had seen that logo before but it was the red arrow with white JSI on the arrow
 
Apr 8, 2010
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Ericson Yachts Olson 34 28400 Portland OR
Johnson Sailmakers, from sometime in the 70's. They used to advertise them by featuring the "Johnson Red Arrow".
 

Manny

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Oct 5, 2006
978
Hunter 82? 37 Cutter Wherever the wind takes me
Thanks for all the responses. Wouldn't the arrows have some writing inside of them or the initials if it was a logo?