You guys still have more "accessible" boat show prices and items there. Here in Vancouver, they only had ONE sailboat in the big stadium!! Of course there was the floating show...but, I'm not really interested in $250,000+ sailboats, I don't even like the looks of them! (Except a Bristol Channel Cutter, of course! ;-) All we have here are Beneteaus and Hunters at our shows...nothing you can really go offshore in (Unless you are Andy Copeland of course! ;-) (Local circumnavigator/ racer/fighter pilot, and a Brit- those sorts of guys can do anything!)
We have some good sail lofts, but you are right, there will be one that will be 1/3 the price...we have two small, good guys and of course five big, expensive good guys...mind you, one of them mixed up the J and I on my PHRF form, and the guy at the sailing assn. had to fix it!!!
My hank-on headsails are crispy new feeling, but are from 1985, my main is 1998, my roller furling genoa is 2000, my cruising chute is 1998. I think...(invoices at the office! ;-)
What was the question again?!
Oh...my roller furling is a 135%.
Main is fully battened, slight roach, three reefs, leech cord, loose-footed.
Prices: not cheap...I don't recall any sail being under $1,500. (haven't looked at old receipts lately.)
I am very hapy with the sails, they are very nice!
I also like the hank-ons, and am trying to figure how to fit them in 'the wardrobe".
“You get a boat for only one reason, because you want one. If you’re worried about being practical, forget boats.”