Nacra 460 Mainsail - Kangaroo Sails

The Nacra 460 mainsail from Kangaroo Sails adapts to your style of sailing: the Beach cut is aimed at leisure sailors, the Hightech cut with more panels at racers, and the Decksweeper is a third option. You then specify cloth, window, battens and colour.

Which cut suits you?

• Beach for relaxed leisure sailing: the panels run radially from head and clew – 4 panels at the head, 10 at the clew and one along the luff. Flat, horizontal reinforcements and white Dacron batten pockets.
• Hightech for the race course: with 6 panels at the head, 11 at the clew and one along the luff, this radial cut handles the loads in the sail better and allows a more precise profile. Reinforcements are cut flat and fully bonded, and the batten pockets use the sailcloth itself.
• Decksweeper: offered as a third cut option. On a Decksweeper the foot reaches down to just above the trampoline (usually with a curved boom): sail and trampoline act like an end plate, reducing the tip vortices along the foot for better pointing and speed upwind. Widely used in racing since the 2017 F18 Worlds.

Configuration

• Window yes or no – the lower panels are then made of window film (Beach and Hightech)
• Also available in several colours
• Battens: none, with battens, or for the Decksweeper (DS)
• Qbond: yes or no

Which cloth?

• Pentex – the laminate for racing and cruising sailors: a core of Pentex fibres sits between two Mylar films and gives the cloth high strength and shape stability at low weight. The three layers are bonded under pressure. Colours: black, smoke, white, silver.
• Mylar – built like Pentex, but with polyester fibres in the core. Colours: smoke, white, blue, green, red.
• Dacron – woven polyester sailcloth, valued for easy handling and long service life. Colour: white.

Compatible with

• Nacra 460