SL16 Jib - Kangaroo Sails

Looking for a new SL16 jib? Kangaroo Sails makes it in three cuts and leaves the choice of cloth, colour, battens and window to you. That way your SL16 gets exactly the headsail that suits leisure trips, club racing or regattas.

Cuts

• Easy for leisure sailors: durable white Dacron with panels at right angles to the leech. The low panel count means few seams that can fail and an economical build. Flat, horizontal reinforcements.
• Beach for leisure and club racing: radial cut from the head, tack and clew with 2 panels from the head and 6 from the tack and clew – the cloth follows the loads in the sail and there are only a few seams. Radial reinforcements.
• Hightech for racing: radial cut with 3 panels from the head, 6 from the clew and 1 from the tack. The extra panels match the cloth even better to the loads and make the profile more finely adjustable. Reinforcements cut radially and fully bonded.

Configuration

• Cloth: white Dacron, Pentex (black, smoke, white, silver) or Mylar (smoke, blue, white, green, red)
• Window: yes or no – possible with all cuts
• Battens: full-length, for a furling system, or straight
• Qbond option (yes or no): the panels are joined with the patented Q-Bond process, bonded under high pressure instead of stitched – no needle holes, so the sail is lighter, holds its shape better and lasts longer.

The cloths in detail

• Dacron: woven polyester sailcloth, valued for easy handling and long life.
• Pentex: a laminate for racing and cruising sailors made of three layers bonded under pressure – Pentex fibres in the core for high strength and shape retention at low weight, Mylar film on both sides.
• Mylar: the same construction as Pentex, but with polyester fibres.

Compatible with

• SL16