Hobie 20 Jib - Kangaroo Sails

The Hobie 20 jib from Kangaroo Sails is available as a robust Easy cut, as a Beach cut for leisure and club racing, or as a Hightech cut for racing. With the choice of cloth, colour, window and battens you tailor the headsail to your Hobie 20 and your ambitions.

Sail cuts

• Easy – durable white Dacron for leisure sailors. The panels run at right angles to the leech, so there are only a few seams that can fail and the sail is economical to make. Flat, horizontal reinforcements.
• Beach – for leisure and club racing sailors. Radial cut with panels from the head, tack and clew: 2 from the head, 6 from the tack and clew. The cloth is aligned with the loads in the sail, and the sail has few seams. Radial reinforcements.
• Hightech – for racing sailors. Radial cut with 3 panels from the head, 6 from the clew and 1 from the tack. The extra panels improve the match to the loads and let the profile be shaped more finely. Reinforcements cut radially and fully bonded.

Sailcloth

• Dacron: white woven polyester sailcloth, easy to handle and long-lasting.
• Pentex: laminate for racing and cruising, available in black, smoke, white and silver. Three layers – a Pentex fibre core and two Mylar films – are bonded under pressure, giving high strength and shape stability at low weight.
• Mylar: laminate with the same construction as Pentex but with polyester fibres, in smoke, blue, white, green and red.

Options

• Window: 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.

Compatible with

• Hobie 20