A cruising sail is sturdy, durable and suitable for all-around use. Headsails include genoas, spinnakers and gennakers. There are also cruising foresails, mizzen sails and mainsails.
Cruising sails are intended for recreational day-sailing, coasting or passage making. They are found on boats of all sizes, both privately owned and rental craft.
Polyester (Dacron®) is often used because of its excellent quality-to-price characteristics. Since these sails often remain set for days at a time, anti-UV treatment will increase useful life. Cruising sails are often used with roller-furling gear, not only headsails, but also mainsails, with boom or mast furling systems. This facilitates rapid shortening of sail with a small crew.
While this configuration is practical and multipurpose, sailing performance suffers compared to sails set with hanks, slides or a bolt rope in a hollow stay. Partial or full battens offer increased power.
A cruising sail is not inferior gear. Sail cut and material should be chosen as a function of boat characteristics and intended use. Careful selection will maximize vessel performance and reduce the number of sails needed for safe, enjoyable cruising. Choice will depend on rigging dimensions or boat model, in the case of production craft.
- Durability
- All-around capabilities
- Reduced performance
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Racing-cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker VECTOR Neilpryde Sails
The Neil Pryde Sails spinnaker product line consists of two types; The Vector line which is the traditional symmetrical spinnakers and our Vectrix Line which covers our asymmetric designs. Both...
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Cruising sail : gennaker G3 North Sails Sailmaking
For cruising sailors looking to enhance their offwind performance, North’s G-series Gennakers™ have been continually refined to deliver smooth...
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Cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker Hood
The Hood Cruising Chute delivers spinnaker-type performance without the trauma. It has been developed over several years to give the cruising sailor extra performance and, in light conditions, close reaching, due to it’s asymmetric cut. Now you can forget about the cost...
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Cruising sail : reacher VO Quantum Sails
* Designed for light to medium air close reaching. * Allows for tighter reaching angels for cruising boats. * Adapted from...
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Racing-cruising sail : mainsail HANDICAP RACING Ullman Sails
Ullman Sails is committed to helping each customer get their boat sailing faster. Whether competing in handicap or one design keelboat racing, we understand that you want win. And we provide the tools to do just that....
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Cruising sail : mainsail DURASAIL Doyle
Still considered some of the most durable and economical sails around, it is not surprising to see how many of our original Durasails are still going strong....
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Racing-cruising sail : spinnaker (parasail) PARASAIL ISTEC
The light and easy spinnaker Developed as a variant of the Parasailor, the Parasail is a great light wind performer. With very little...
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Cruising sail : storm jib STORM BAG® DELTA Voiles
"...what we had imagined was soon confirmed. A standard fitted yacht cannot do a great deal in true winds of 25 to 30 knots even when backed up by engine power. However, with the three...
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Racing-cruising sail : mainsail LEE Lee Sails
The Mainsail is your yacht's driving sail. For cruising boats in particular, the mainsail is an important sail, being one of the hardest working of...
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Cruising sail : symmetric spinnaker SYM1 / 45 M² Spinnaker One
-Luff: 9.20 m -Foot: 5.20 m -Surface: 45.00 m² Specifications: -...
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Racing-cruising sail : reacher SUN 2000 Forward Sailing
GENAKER/REACHER 23m2 For 18 feet multihulls, Magnum 21, Sun 2000 Forward Sailing brings to 18 feet multihulls...
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Racing-cruising sail : spinnaker ROLLY TASKER SAILS
Rolly Tasker Sails photo competition SPINNAKERS Our Spinnakers are designed with state-of-the-art 3-D sail design software in Full-Radial or Tri-Radial...
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Racing-cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker VMG Olimpic Sails
OLIMPIC SAILS' mission has always been a commitment to development and innovation. Thanks to this philosophy, the thirty years of the sail loft's history have been full of great satisfactions and successes...
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Cruising sail : gennaker Sails-online
When ordering your spinnaker/gennaker, please tell us what wind range you intend to use your sail for. If you live in a predominatly windy place with winds of 15 knots and above we would build the...
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Cruising sail : symmetric spinnaker SAILONET
Sailonet offers two ranges of spinnakers: The symetrical spinnaker, with its two identical lentghs of leeches and which is used with a spinnaker pole....
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Cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker Yager Sails
First, if this is for a cruising spinnaker or asymmetrical spinnaker, give us the headstay length and the I measurement of the boat. the (I) measurement is the height of the mast from the deck to the top of the mast. If you do not know, take a long tape measure and attach it to the main halyard and send it up. Next, give us the (J) measurement . This is the length...
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Cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker Shore Sails
Bill's Asymmetrical Cruising Spinnaker The innovative Asymmetrical Cruising Spinnaker adds more performance to your cruising inventory than any other sail. Bill molds the spinnaker in three dimensions on the computer based on his America's Cup design development...
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Cruising sail : asymmetric spinnaker Arun
This sail has been designed by us for all those sailors who don't want the complications and extra equipment required for handling a spinnaker but want the pleasure and exhilaration of fast downwind...
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Cusotmised / Standard Sized Cruising Spinnaker Asymmetrical Fit for most boats from 22 to 55 in length Luff: 23 '...
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Cruising sail : spinnaker (sailchute) Sailchutes Sailchutes Australia
Sailchutes Australia have produced the first Sailchute specifically designed for Sailing Vessels. Perfect for dead downwind conditions the Sailchute is connected to the vessel via a tack line and a halyard, easy to hoist and drop, ideal for a shorthanded crew. Sailchutes sail downwind very effectively because they are perpendicular to the wind and have a lot of belly. When sailing...
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Cruising sail : mainsail (cross-cut) LEECH BATTEN DL SAILS
Specifications * DESIGN WITH PROSAIL. * PRODUCTION SYSTEM: A.R.C. (ADVANCED REGULATION CODE) * QUALITY: CRUISING * CUTTING: CROSS CUT * CLOTH: DIMENSION POLYANT/ BAINBRIDGE...
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Cruising sail : mainsail (full-batten) SHORT Jeckells
The mainsail is the hardest working sail in any yachts wardrobe. It has to adapt to suit all weather conditions from zephyr to gale force and still provide the best performance....
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Racing-cruising sail : mainsail VOYAGER RACE Hydesails
The Voyager race range is designed for those who go cruising but also participate in club and offshore races. The race mainsail is a tri-radial design in either high quality woven dacron,...
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Cruising sail : storm jib GALE SAIL ATN
The patented "Gale Sail" from ATN, inc. is the safest and easiest way to hoist a storm jib in storm conditions. Features: - High visibility luff pouch - Oversized piston hanks PLUS webbed grommets for easier hoisting - It eliminates the need for a removable headstay. - It eliminates the dangerous job of unfurling, dropping and stowing away the furled working sail to free up the roller furler...
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Cruising sail : genoa PREMIUM Kemp Sails
Sometimes you have a choice - a more simply-built sail for which a standard Dacron or polyester is perfectly suitable, or a more complex panel layout which calls for specialised...
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Cruising sail : gennaker STROMER Elvstrøm Sails A/S
A fusion between technology developed in the short handed round-the-world events and the best of race winning asymmetric sail design. This allows you to sail downwind from 110 degrees down to around 170 degrees with no need for a pole. A design that is...
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Cruising sail : Code Zero MED/HVY CLOSE REACHER UK-Halsey International
The Code Double Zero is the smallest sail that can be made under the spinnaker measurement rule. It is designed for boats with non-overlapping genoas that that cannot carry powerful Jib Top reachers. Since these boats are limited to genoas that don't overlap...
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Cruising sail : mainsail (furling) IN-BOOM Lidgard Sailmakers
Lidgard Sails In-Boom Furling Mainsails are custom designed and measured offering the customer the perfect fit and sail shape without sacrificing performance....
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Racing-cruising sail : spinnaker Le Bihan
Stability and polyvalency to increase speed downwind - Radial head spinnaker...
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Racing-cruising sail : spinnaker Gowen Ocean Sailmakers
- Tri-Radial cut with horizontal mid sections/rocked radial...
