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Swede 55 Mainsail

Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Article in German It towers 18 metres into the blue and is ten percent bigger than the previous one by Swiss sailmaker VM Sails, which came with a short foot luff in the nineties. Five battens, two of them continuous at the top, stabilise the cloth. In the fall before, sailmaker Arnd Deutsch and I had discussed a special …

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Swede 55 Jib

Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Article in German As sailing Swede 55 is mostly about upwind pleasure, a post about a single sail, this time a new jib, seems reasonable. For a long time, I sailed Gamle Swede with a worn-out and smaller-than-specified jib. It was made by Canon/Västervik in 1979. For that long, you can use polyester cloth, also known by the brand …