Sabre Sails 2003
Sabre Sails' sail loft facility has been called the sail
loft of the future. This facility incorporates over 7200 square
feet of production floor space for manufacturing sails, canvas
products and rigging. Using sailmaker's inputs from around
the world, the building incorporates the latest in energy
savings lighting, heating and cooling systems, along with
the latest and most modern sailmaking tools. The loft provides
the capability of having several large sails in production
at the same time.
 Sabre
Sails has grown from a small local sail loft servicing sailors
on the Ft Walton Beach area into the largest, most modern,
full-service loft in the Southeastern United States servicing
sailmakers and sailors world wide. Sabre Sails attributes its growth to quality products, customer
service, and their innovative sail designs. Sabre Sails is
now designing winning sails for over 15 sailmakers throughout
the world. Sabre Sails designs have been on winning boats throughout
the country including most major racing events. This includes
1st place finishes at: the Southern Ocean Racing Conference
(SORC), the Chicago NOOD, the California PHRF Championship
(including boat of the year) twice, the San Diego Cup, the
MORC nationals, several major ocean races, Corsairs nation
championships for the F-31, F-27, F-24 MkI and F-24 MkII,
Prindle 19MX nation championship, and the Hobie Wave nation
championship.
Our designs have been recognized by other sail designers, sailmakers,
and naval architects, as well as sailors who use his products,
as a leader in sail design. His innovated ideas such as Polar
Optimized Sails™, and Stress-Strain Analysis Programs™ have
enabled him to design sails that are faster, lighter, stronger
and last longer.
The Polar Optimized Sails™ software, developed and trade-marked
by Sabre Sails allows the sail designer to treat the sail
as a subsystem of the boat. The designers look at the hull
performance, the dagger boats and foils' drag/lift coefficients,
and other velocity prediction information to optimize the
sail to the boat.
 The
Stress-Strain Analysis Program™, a finite element analysis
software program, gives the sail designers the capability
to assure that the correct cloth, weight, type and panel layouts
are used in the construction of each sail. The major benefits
of this technology, realized by both cruising and racing sailors,
are lighter weight sails and with increased longevity. The
Stress-Strain Analysis Program ™ has enabled Sabre Sails to
reduce the overall size and weight of the head, clew, and
tack patches. Reinforcing only the required areas and distributing
the loads into the sail, eliminates the extra weight from
reinforcing layers of sailcloth as in traditional patches.
Overall weight savings has been considerable. These sails
are holding their shape better in greater wind ranges.
 Sabre
Sails developed a process to glue Silicone coated nylon spinnaker
cloth, called Dynalite, rather than sewing. Dynalite is nearly
impossible to sew because it is so slippery. Dynalite is stronger
than any other .75 oz nylon with bionic tear strength and
is totally waterproof. The glued seams are impossible to pull
apart. This cloth is so slippery that the sail does not cling
to itself during a jybe, which equates to a faster set time
and faster jybes. We have since helped develop a seaming tape
that is less expensive and now available to all sailmakers.
We are the developers of Super K2 Sailcloth™, the first
sailcloth especially designed for the loads on multihulls
sails and designed to be utilized in construction applications
that reduces the overall production cost of the sail. This
cloth has 16.5% more high modulus fibers in the primary axis
and 73% more high modulus fibers in the secondary axis than
the lower end Aramid being manufactured today. You, the customer,
will be getting more denier (more aramid) per dollar with
this cloth. We have also developed a new seaming technique,
which we expect will further enhance the construction of the
sail. Every area of manufacturing was addressed to assure
the construction of these sails would meet our quality and
your expectations.
These technical developments have lead to the most impressive
developments such as the Black Cat™ and the Super K2™ sails.
THE PAST
Sabre Sails' multihull business has grown from the design
and manufacture of sails for the beach cats of the '80's to
the F-boats in the mid and late '90's to the larger catamarans
and trimarans of today. In the early 1990's Sabre Sails dominated
the Hobie 21 pro circuit race courses and other international
events. It was Sabre Sails' asymmetrical spinnakers that were
considered by the top racers like Carlton Tucker to be the
fastest sails on the water. It was also in the early 1990's
that the high elliptical head main was introduced and Sabre
Sails was one of the first lofts to develop this shape.
THE PRESENT
Sabre Sails is recognized as a leader in design and for
their construction quality of such multihull boats as the
Corsairs F-boats. Sailors insist on Sabre Sails to design
and manufacture their sails because of Sabre Sails quality
and service. All Sabre Sails are manufactured in-house in
Ft. Walton Beach FL.
You see sails that we build for Corsair F-Boats and other
multihull at all major sailing events. Sabre Sails has 6 national
championships this year alone including 4 at the Corsair nationals
for the F-31,F-27, F24 MkI and F-24 MKII.
We have been building multihull sails for the past 8 years
for world famous sailors that chose Sabre Sails as their manufacturer.
These are the same designs that world and national champions
use.
Sabre Sails design's have been on many winning boats. Not
only is winning important to Sabre Sails, but so is sail longevity.
The Multihull group has selected new lines of racing and cruising
laminates and woven sailcloth that when combined with the
Stress -Strain Analysis Program™ allow for lighter, more durable
sails that hold their shape and last longer. The major benefits
of this technology are realized by both cruising and racing
sailors.
TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS
Sabre Sails created the multihull group to better serve
all of your sailing needs. Sabre Sails recognizes the importance
of service to you, the customer. The group is comprised of
renowned multihull sailors to assist you in every aspect of
sailing, including purchasing a boat, rigging, sails, and
sailing. These sailors include: Bob Curry, Dean Froome, Brian
Lambert, and a staff of professional sailmakers with over
100 years of multihull experience. In addition, the Sabre
Sails has over 20 service centers to assist you.
Bob Curry, Vice President of the Multihull Group and Vice
President of customer service and sales. Bob has been sailing
multihulls for the past 25 years. He is considered one of
the top multihull drivers in the world. He has won more than
his share of catamaran championships including 2 world titles
and over 30 national titles on a variety of multihull. This
includes the Alter Cup, Mystere 6.0 World Championship, Hobie
14 World Championship, Hobie 17 National Championship twice,
Hobie 14/Hobie 14 Turbo National Championship seven times,
and numerous regional races.His customer service is second
to none. He focuses on his customer's sailing requirements
with great enthusiasm and knowledge. Give Bob a call and let
him show you how to enter the winners' circle!
Dean Froome, born and raised in Hawaii, sailed to his first
win in the 1973 Hawaii State Championship on a Hobie 14. Dean
remains the only skipper to have held both the Hobie 14 and
Hobie 16 World titles and he did it so simultaneously in 1977-78.
He is considered to be "the expert" in mastering heavy air
catamaran sailing. His legend lives on today. We are extremely
happy to have him on our Multihull team.
The Sabre Sails Team includes veteran sailmakers and canvas
makers with combined experience of over 100 years with multihull
boats alone. Above all else Sabre Sails has a strong commitment
to customer satisfaction. We provide timely delivery, quality
products designed for your boat and continued service for
all your sailing needs.
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