Prindle 16 Mainsail - Kangaroo Sails

For your Prindle 16, Kangaroo Sails makes a matching mainsail – whether for relaxed sailing off the beach or for racing. Choose from the Beach, Hightech and Decksweeper cuts, combined with Dacron, Pentex or Mylar in various colours.

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

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

• Prindle 16