Nacra 580 Mainsail - Kangaroo Sails

The Nacra 580 mainsail from Kangaroo Sails is radial cut – in the Beach version for leisure sailors or the Hightech version with more panels for racers. A Decksweeper cut is also available. Cloth, window, battens and Qbond are configured to suit your boat.

The cuts

• Beach (leisure): radial layout from head and clew – 4 head panels, 10 clew panels, 1 luff panel. Flat, horizontal reinforcements; batten pockets in white Dacron.
• Hightech (racing): radial layout with more panels – 6 head panels, 11 clew panels, 1 luff panel – so the cloth follows the loads more closely and the profile is cleaner. Flat, fully bonded reinforcements; batten pockets in the sailcloth.
• Decksweeper: a further cut you can select. 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

Sailcloth

• Dacron (white): woven polyester sailcloth that is easy to handle and long-lasting.
• Pentex (black, smoke, white, silver): a laminate for racing and cruising made of three layers bonded under pressure. The Pentex fibre core gives high strength and shape stability at low weight; both outer layers are Mylar film.
• Mylar (smoke, white, blue, green, red): same construction as Pentex, but using polyester fibres.

Compatible with

• Nacra 580