Just to add more fuel to the fire.....

Having made sails for 14 years for some of the premire lofts, the consensus on folding kites is that you always fold them in half from head to mid-foot, then fold them toward the foot, and then roll from the middle of the sail toward the leech and luff to avoid crushing the last foot of cloth leading into the tapes. This is the way we did it on the AC boats, TP52s and what we do on our own F18.

Probably 6 to 1/2 dozen in the end since the snuffers kill the cloth of the kites in about 2 regattas.

Last edited by USA2477; 03/21/09 09:43 PM.

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