Bill,

Thanks for the warnings; my basement is plenty big for any beach cat sail. Like rolf said there are many places that will cut out a sail for me if I give them a file.

I would like to design my own sails; I may be able to get access to a program called “fluent” (fluid design) for optimization. My crew uses some sort of fluid design program at her work as well. I have to read up and figure out what they are doing now before I say anything else.

My current sail has a Head plate that is a sandwich of 2 metal plates with rivets through it. Probably bad for weight aloft, but it definitely works.

Matt