As an alternative to the 4T FORTE™, M3™ and Vektor2™ continuous yarn options and VantageOne™ glued membranes, OneSails offers more traditional woven cross-cut and tri-radial panelled sails.
Woven cloth - the underrated sail material.
Even today, fabrics are still very popular. That's right, because fabrics are made without glue and without film. They are robust, durable and inexpensive. Sails in Cross Cut are also the most cost-effective to manufacture.
In short, a fabric consists of long warp and short weft threads, which are interwoven at 90 ° angle. To offset diagonal loads, sailcloth manufacturers have come up with some ideas. One is called "heat setting", where the polyester fibers are shrunk by heat after weaving. The fabric becomes more compact and gains diagonal stability. Another is resin coating: resin fills the gaps between the weave yarns, and as long as the coating stays on it adds diagonal ("bias") strength to the material.
They also use different yarns for the warp and the weft, to suit different applications: namely, on high aspect ratio (tall and narrow) sails, the weft (also called "fill") yarns are stronger, as the higher loads on the sail are mainly vertical.
Suitable cuts
We can recommend the crosscut for any sails up to about 35 square meters. For larger sails, the radial cut has its advantages in terms of dimensional stability, longer service life and lower weight. We use the following fabric lines from Dimension Polyant for crosscut: All Purpose (AP), Stong Fill (SF) and C Breeze (CB).
Suitable for: all cruising sailors who are looking to price effective and durable sails.