N.E. Sail Maker???

[Mike]

My wife and I are looking to replace a ruined sail. We have three options:1. locate a New England Sail maker(We were given sail material and thread)2. buy a used sail (good area sources?)3. buy a new sail (area sources?)Not having much luck finding supplier information for our New England area.please email or call (603)475-8823

 

[John Rich]

Used sail source

Mike,If you can give me the dimensions of your sail, there is a local Marine sales store here in the Newport area that has a sizeable inventory of used sails. I don’t have the telephone number but am there off and on just to see what comes in and would be happy to check. What’s your email address? If he has something I can put you in direct contact to discuss one on one.John

 

[Marc]

Sail Wharehouse

I"ve bought several sails (Gale Sail / thumbs up, and an Asymetric Spinaker) from the sailwharehouse. they also have some used sail.Good luck,Marc

 

[John Visser]

What's the rest of the story?

How was it that you were given sail material and thread? How did the sail get ruined?And how is it that you can't find a sailmaker in New England? That's like not finding coal in Newcastle!My only experience, very positive, on a new sail was the UK loft in Jamestown, RI. They have a loft in North Sutton, NH.see link

 

[Jack Tyler]

Consider contacting Cruising Direct

Mike, consider contacting Cruising Direct (www.cruisingdirect.com), which is a NE firm that is somewhat related to North Sails, who make a very good product. CD, as best I can make out, places orders to the various North production facilities to help them rebalance the loft workloads, and so you may (or may not) have to be a bit patient about delivery - they can tell you when you call.They offer sails in both a generic dacron and also Nordac (their proprietary cloth, which I think is super) and can even build in 'standard' features that you request (reef points, reef cringles on a jib, etc.). A friend with a Pearson 424 recently purchased a full set of their sails and his cost was less than half what a number of the local name-brand lofts quoted him. Yet he got top notch, name-brand sails; not bad!You should probably measure your rig - they can help you do this - just to confirm what your Cat 22 owner's manual tells you.Good luck!Jack

 

[Chuck W]

North Sails Salem, MA

They did a nice job cleaning and mending my H22's sails.