Prindle 15 Mainsail - Kangaroo Sails

The Prindle 15 mainsail from Kangaroo Sails is offered in three cuts: Beach for leisure sailors, Hightech for racers, and Decksweeper. Cloth, window, battens and colours are chosen individually, so the sail matches the way you use your boat.

Sail cuts

• Beach – for leisure sailors: radial cut from the head and clew with 4 panels from the head, 10 panels from the clew and 1 panel along the luff. Flat, horizontal reinforcements; batten pockets in white Dacron.
• Hightech – for racing sailors: radial cut with 6 panels from the head, 11 panels from the clew and 1 panel along the luff. The extra panels align the cloth more closely with the loads in the sail and give a better profile. Reinforcements are cut flat and fully bonded; batten pockets are made from the same cloth as the sail.
• Decksweeper – available as a further 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.

Equipment

• Window film in the lower panels possible (Beach and Hightech)
• Multi-colour panel layout possible
• Battens: none, with battens, or the Decksweeper (DS) version
• Qbond on request

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

• Prindle 15