Kingston Sail Loft

07/02/2025

A KSL customer has a CL-16 main and jib for sale:
"Main sail and jib are in good condition , one patch on main .
Asking $225.00"
We can pass on contact information to anyone interested.

07/01/2025

For Canada Day:
KSL was very pleased to work with our customer to modify this headsail to fit his C&C 32, and help him with the Maple Leaf. That is two LARGE maple leafs in red Insignia, stuck on back to back.

07/01/2025

KSL's Ali Meller just returned from racing the 505 UK Nationals out of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. We had fabulous breeze every day we were there except the last. The WPNSA facility is incredible. The fleet had multiple past 505 world champions and was very competitive.

We were able to use the new KSL 505 spinnaker to good effect... It is the red and white fully triradial panel layout in the image. Thanks to David Henshall for the use of the image. Apparently he has many more, which I hope I can post or share in the next few days.

This is just after planing past the offset mark next to the windward mark, we were third at this point in the race, six seconds behind the first placed 505, which is mostly obscured in the image by the second place 505.

06/25/2025

A KSL sail cover for a Nonsuch 26

06/13/2025

A KSL customer wants to sell a used North Kevlar laminate Genoa for a San Juan 30. The boat was a mast head rig, so this may fit similar sized mast head rigged boats. KSL could also make minor alterations to get it to fit your boat. The sail is apparently about 12years old, but very lightly used. The sail is in great shape structurally, just creased from being folded and rolled. It comes with a nice deck bag.

Luff 39' 4"
Leech 37' 2"
LP 16' 5" (130%)

Asking $600.

05/18/2025

We prefer that UV covers are stitched on with a zig-zag stitch rather than double or triple stitched. Double or triple stitching takes rather longer to cut and remove, driving up the cost of removing an old UV cover in preparation for putting a new one on.

Panel seams and spinnaker seams should be triple stitched, not UV covers.

We also like protecting head and clew webbing with the UV cover rather than leaving them compketely exposed.

05/13/2025

More new sails for KSL customers. Here we are checking a new Shark mainsail. The luff will look a little different when hoisted, as here the luff round is held straight whereas there will be a little fore and aft bend in the mast taking up some of that luff curve.

05/08/2025

An interesting article about modern sail design. Looks like there will be a follow on going into panel layout and more.

https://sailingincanada.ca/tech/sail-tech/how-sails-are-designed-from-measurements-to-build-ready-project/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKJsOlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTWmEydk9LeVROTDQyS1lXAR7nBvBG3ikj9jQVCDA28NPlx7epoudVBQSGE1jmJ52mDXvsadUvRfD3vS2jKA_aem_86epJkCHXPmf-CFt35akUw

May 8, 2025

05/07/2025

A new sail for a home built (from plans) 19 foot sprit rigged sailing dory.

05/03/2025

Report on the recent 505 Euro Cup France event from Yachts and Yachting: https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/285646/?source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawKDIE5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmOVFXSWNUckR3WDR6SVpNAR7oSkUfXJ1Gr5qRxl4vms0x4wacM1ktLRakOP4oqKBdqH6WK0SDEoKZQqUdow_aem_HqZ_jy5xuNccifoMFP1vpg

It includes an article by two young newcomers to the 505 class who borrowed the German 505 class loaner boat, and had a blast racing it ...

505's from seven countries descended on St Raphael in the South of France for event 1 of the 505 2025 Euro Cup circuit. Many boats arrived early to knock off the winter rust and enjoy the warmer weather and good food the area has to offer.

05/01/2025

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04/21/2025

The first of the 505 Euro Cup events just ended in St. Raphael France. It was breeze on at least one of the days.

Results: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:ba0a0b94-0237-4234-946f-4912a269ca34?fbclid=IwY2xjawJzPGJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHuOtKcbTn9IOJWpEwtXWWDIxTzk9vd39fzoZTZlKcLH1ZrR-9i8AmB-K-DwU_aem_Dt3rwzuFGjgPOQo9lNfaOg

This image is of Mike Holt and Rob Woelfel, who won the last day and pulled up to second overall. They are racing my 505 (using their sails), as their 505 was not back from the Worlds in Australia yet.

Day 1 images by Christophe Favreau: 202092184@N04/albums/72177720325265995/" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/202092184@N04/albums/72177720325265995/

Day 2 (breeze on) images by Christophe Favreau: 202092184@N04/albums/72177720325271947" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/202092184@N04/albums/72177720325271947

Perhaps next year I can race this event using our KSL 505 sails.

If you browse the images you will see several of a RIB following a port tack 505; 505s use gate starts rather than line starts.