Nacra 500 Mainsail - Kangaroo Sails

This Nacra 500 mainsail comes from Kangaroo Sails and is made in three cuts. If you sail for fun, choose the Beach cut; if you race, the Hightech cut with extra panels and a better profile is the one to go for. The Decksweeper cut completes the range, and cloth and options are up to you.

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.

Options to choose

• Window-film lower panels (for Beach and Hightech)
• Multi-colour panels possible
• Batten options: no battens, standard battens or battens for DS (Decksweeper)
• With or without Qbond

Cloths

• Dacron: woven polyester cloth in white – easy to handle and long-lasting.
• Pentex: three-layer composite – Pentex fibres in the core, Mylar film on both sides, laminated under pressure – giving high strength and shape stability at low weight for racing and cruising. Available in black, smoke, white and silver.
• Mylar: a laminate on the Pentex principle, but with polyester fibres; in smoke, white, blue, green and red.

Compatible with

• Nacra 500