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New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:18 pm
by NiceAft
I’m in the market for a new mainsail. Has any
owner purchased one from BWY?
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:33 pm
by Russ
I hear ya. My Main is used up and stretched out.
I like supporting BWY. With that said, I bought my 150 genny from Judy B sails. She's no longer selling sails.
Others on this forum have used thesailwarehouse.com.
Let us know what you end up doing as I may be following you soon. Maybe Santa will bring a new Mainsail.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:20 am
by leefrankpierce
Used Precision sails.
I was moving my boom higher on the mast to gain headroom, so was needing a custom size.
I also added a track to the mast, so I have real sliders instead of slugs in a slot designed for a bolt rope.
This allowed me to purchase a fully battened mainsail.
They treat all sails (including the foresail) as custom, so had me make measurements of the boat for the foresail as well as the main.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2025 6:40 am
by kurz
Bought all sails at BWY.
All good so far...
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:13 pm
by tuxonpup
Bought our new main at BWY, hopefully will have some photographic evidence of a Lite-skin main sail installed on a 26X in a couple weeks.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:39 am
by NiceAft
tuxonpup wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:13 pm
Bought our new main at BWY, hopefully will have some photographic evidence of a Lite-skin main sail installed on a 26X in a couple weeks.
What was your reasoning for the Lite-Skin over the 5oz Dacron?
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:23 am
by tuxonpup
NiceAft wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:39 am
tuxonpup wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:13 pm
Bought our new main at BWY, hopefully will have some photographic evidence of a Lite-skin main sail installed on a 26X in a couple weeks.
What was your reasoning for the Lite-Skin over the 5oz Dacron?
Besides it looks cool you mean?
Our boat came with a disintegrating Doyle jib on the furler and a torn Doyle mainsail, I suspect both were the 28 year old original 3.9oz equipment.
We ordered a replacement coastal/cruising 150% genoa from BWY first, which turned out to be a Rolly Tasker. I really liked it after hoisting it for the first time and decided to look at a Rolly Tasker main sail. The matching coastal/cruising 5oz main on BWY is a Doyle in the photo, while their upgrade sail is a Rolly Tasker 5oz Lite-Skin, which they equate to a 6oz Dacron.
Shopping the Rolly Tasker site, they rate their Lite-Skin sails above their offshore crosscut sails performance wise, with lower durability. The BWY price on the Lite-Skin main they stock is $470 more than the Doyle 5oz Dacron, which I found reasonable compared to upgrade prices ordering elsewhere.
We'll be able to compare how the standard RT Dacron genoa wears compared to their Lite-Skin main, but performance-wise I'll have to go on BWY's advice, as comparing it to my 28 year old thrashed main isn't exactly going to tell me a lot!
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:27 am
by NiceAft
tuxonpup wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:23 am
NiceAft wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:39 am
tuxonpup wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:13 pm
Bought our new main at BWY, hopefully will have some photographic evidence of a Lite-skin main sail installed on a 26X in a couple weeks.
What was your reasoning for the Lite-Skin over the 5oz Dacron?
Besides it looks cool you mean?
Our boat came with a disintegrating Doyle jib on the furler and a torn Doyle mainsail, I suspect both were the 28 year old original 3.9oz equipment.
We ordered a replacement coastal/cruising 150% genoa from BWY first, which turned out to be a Rolly Tasker. I really liked it after hoisting it for the first time and decided to look at a Rolly Tasker main sail. The matching coastal/cruising 5oz main on BWY is a Doyle in the photo, while their upgrade sail is a Rolly Tasker 5oz Lite-Skin, which they equate to a 6oz Dacron.
Shopping the Rolly Tasker site, they rate their Lite-Skin sails above their offshore crosscut sails performance wise, with lower durability. The BWY price on the Lite-Skin main they stock is $470 more than the Doyle 5oz Dacron, which I found reasonable compared to upgrade prices ordering elsewhere.
We'll be able to compare how the standard RT Dacron genoa wears compared to their Lite-Skin main, but performance-wise I'll have to go on BWY's advice, as comparing it to my 28 year old thrashed main isn't exactly going to tell me a lot!
Understood. Also, the grey is distinctive.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 6:33 pm
by Y.B.Normal
I bought a Rolly Tasker Flat Top, loose-footed main and 100% Jib through BWY 3 years ago and love it.
I thought about going with a larger jenny, but was told by Cheryl that the set-up I bought would work out best.
I have 2 reef points in the main.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 6:56 pm
by NiceAft
It just so happens that I was also in the need of a new main. My old sail was a flat top, and after owning a flat top, I realized that my sailing doesn’t warrant the performance of another flat top, so I went for a traditional sail. I wanted a Dacron heavier than 5%. I decided for a sail from Ullman Sail in Annapolis.
https://annapolis.ullmansails.com/team/steve-ross/
It will be ready when we go to the Annapolis Sail Boat Show in October. The sail will have two reef points, be loose footed, and be full battened. The manager of the sail loft thinks 5.5 % is a better weigh for the
. 6% is too much.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 7:07 am
by tuxonpup
tuxonpup wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:13 pm
Bought our new main at BWY, hopefully will have some photographic evidence of a Lite-skin main sail installed on a 26X in a couple weeks.
Forgot to circle back and post these after hoisting her the first time:
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 9:19 am
by NiceAft
Definitely an eye catching sail.
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 4:25 am
by dlandersson
Quite the eye catcher
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:35 am
by Russ
Oooh, I like that. But does it come in white or is the black because of the material?
And how thick/strong is it?
Re: New Mainsail for M. Where did You Get Yours
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 9:38 am
by tuxonpup
Russ wrote: ↑Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:35 am
Oooh, I like that. But does it come in white or is the black because of the material?
And how thick/strong is it?
Just the 'Anthracite Gray' the outer layer of the laminate is composed of:
https://www.rollytasker.com/en/our-sail ... kin-sails/
It's supposed to hold shape better than an equal thickness Dacron, so performs like a 6.0 Dacron while handling like a 5.0. It won't wear as evenly as Dacron though due to being a laminate, once that gray protective layer wears through somewhere, the film layer is as delicate as a racing laminate.