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The original standard sails were made by Elvstrom, are cross cut and made of Dacron. A performance range were also available at an additional cost and are made from a Dacron and film laminate. Later Maxi's are supplied with North Sails. The original sails are a 105% Genoa and a 4 batten fully battened main sail. The Genoa has vertical battens to help support the leach. An optional spinnaker or cruising-shute is also available. Apart from upgrading these sails with tri-radial cut sails made from laminates there is the option of adding a Code Zero, Flat Asymetric Spinnaker, a large roached 105-110%, 140% or 150% Genoa. Some of the more recent boats, hull/sail number 43 onwards, have aft sheeting tracks or the facility for these built into the deck to allow for a 140% or a 150% Genoa. Boats prior to this do not have the deck-strengthening plates and retrofitting is much more difficult due to the need of removing interior woodwork and strengthening the deck from inside the saloon / heads. The initial boats fitted with the aft tracks had the tracks positioned for a 150% Genoa, later boats had the track moved forwards 18" (450mm) for a 140% Genoa. Currently it seems that the tracks will only sheet the Genoa they were intended for. The 140% and 150% Genoas would probable only be needed for racing or when large crew ballast is available. The 140% and 150% Genoas will increase your racing rating to somewhere in the region of 1018, this may well mean that the boat is un-competitive in stronger winds when using the 105% Genoa. Code 0
(See Superteds' Code Zero made by White
Sails)
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Jeremy White - White Sails A proper Code 0 should be constructed from a Laminate not a Spinnaker Nylon as the loads are very high and Spinnaker nylon would soon distort, laminate sails take up allot of space so the sail would really need to be on a furler. A proper Code 0 takes time to set up on the boat so should only be used on quite long legs of the course. A Code 0 can not be tacked so would be of little use if you were short tacking against the tide. In my opinion a proper code 0 has a narrow band of use, unless you are going offshore. Alternative AsymetricAn alternative is a very flat Asymmetric sail,
constructed from 2 weights of Spinnaker Nylon. 140% GenoaFlown from the head-sail furler, this would have wind range of 0-20Knts true, the boat would be much faster out of the Tacks, Faster out of the start line, and would easily make up for the hike in the Rating.
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Taranaki, a Maxi 1100, has a set of sails made by Sanders Sails Lymington. The photos below show the original Elvstrom Dacron sail (left) and the new laminate 5 batten tri-radial Sanders sail (right).
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