Well, that is what I remember for it. Although I'm now not sure wether this was all the sails together with the bags and boom or just the mainsail and its bag. We'll know tonight.



Doubtful. I have Contender Apen06 pentex cloth mainsail and jib. Made in 2003 (main) and (2004) jib. The are sails made for racing by Redhead sails and Goodall sails. I expect these to make state of the art sails. Besides I know that all the other makes (F18's and such) are using sails made of exactly the same cloth. I lifted more than a few F18 sails this season and none are near 2.5 kg's. My mainsail will certainly not be several kg's heavier than they are.



True, but by far most of the weight is concentrated in the battens, bolt rope and reinforcement patches in the corners. These hardly change when ordering a smaller or bigger sail. Therefor adding or subtracting a sq. mtr. in the middle of the sail will not alter the overall weight much. I fully expect my mainsail to be within 0.5 of the A-cats and within 0.5 kg of the F18's. The difference in area is just to small to account for a bigger difference. But I have never weighted an A-cat mailsail I admit.





2.0 kg for an A-cat mainsail with fibrefoam battens ? You've got to be kidding me mate !

My 17.5 sq.mtr. spinnaker sail (nylon) weights in at 1.25 kg and it has no battens at all. No way you can have a mainsail for only 750 grams more (= weight of a filled beer can)

I think you are making a conversion error here.

Besides on the net sailmakers talk about 30 % reductions in weight when using cuben fibre cloth. Meaning that the OLD sails would only weight about 1.3 * 2 = 2.6 kg. = about 3 kg. No way, I don't believe that,





I think that 6.5 kg is more like it. I will check my own main tonight.

Wouter