Kingston Sail Loft

Kingston Sail Loft Sail manufacturing and repair Now owned and operated by Steve Yates, Sue Fraser and Ali Meller

09/04/2025

Fall Discount on New Sails!

KSL is able to offer a discount on new sails ordered (all details specified and deposit paid) between September 1 and November 30.

Call us at the loft - 613 531 9373, or email us at - office@kingstonsailloft.ca for details.

Another happy customer. This is a KSL Ericson 27 Genoa sold to the customer to replace a sail that did not properly fit...
09/02/2025

Another happy customer.

This is a KSL Ericson 27 Genoa sold to the customer to replace a sail that did not properly fit his boat. Now we are discussing a new mainsail.

For those interested in 505 mainsail shape ...We took photos of mast bend and resulting mainsail shape, using three diff...
08/14/2025

For those interested in 505 mainsail shape ...

We took photos of mast bend and resulting mainsail shape, using three different mainsails, over three days. Conditions were fairly similar all three days.
We would set up the mast using the ram, take an image or two to show the mast bend, then take images of the resulting mainsail shape. The photos of Devlin are to break this up into related images. The batch after a Devlin image would be after we changed mast bend using the ram, or changed the vang setting, and looked at the resulting mainsail shape.

The first set of images (August 9th) is of the KSL prototype 505 main. It has the black 505 Insignia, blue CAN 8841, and a black luff tape. It has a triradial panel layout.

The second set (August 12) is using a somewhat tired North M-10T. Blue 505 Insignia, blue CAN 8841. Panels radiate from the head and the clew.

The last set (August 13) is of the P&B standard (not flat) main, which is rather newer and lower mileage than the North.

08/07/2025

We had great breeze in Kingston this past weekend (2-3 August), which the ILCA youth and 420 youth racers at CORK must have enjoyed. Devlin and I were out both afternoons enjoying the breeze. Here is video of the 505, with the KSL 505 spinnaker on Saturday, someone said it was 18-20 knots, but it felt like a bit more to us.
We used the recut (more luff curve) KSL 505 mainsail on Sunday, but don't have images or video of that.

We are adding luff curve to the prototype KSL 505 mainsail after some testing. We marked the edge of the bolt rope, then...
08/01/2025

We are adding luff curve to the prototype KSL 505 mainsail after some testing.
We marked the edge of the bolt rope, then took the bolt rope off, checked the luff curve with the sail flat and fan folded, sewed on some black Dacron tap, drew a new luff curve and trimmed to it, measured the offset from the original luff curve so we can feed that back into the design, and sewed the bolt rope back on to the new luff curve.
During test sails in varying conditions we shot stills and video and decided the sail had a nice smooth fair shape, but needed more fullness forward (we were setting up the mast very straight on the water trying to get that fullness) and make it easier to "stand up" the upper leech.

*** Update after testing the sail in 18-20+ knots on Sunday August 3rd. We had excellent pace upwind against another, lighter, 505 team. We were raked a lot, with significant bend (appropriate for the breeze). The main is still twisted open a bit at the top. We are looking forward to testing in lighter conditions to see if we have an all-round shape. ***

KSL has Hyde dinghy covers available. We have 505 top and bottom, ILCA/Laser top, 420 top, and Albacore top covers. He...
07/20/2025

KSL has Hyde dinghy covers available. We have 505 top and bottom, ILCA/Laser top, 420 top, and Albacore top covers. Here are some images.

We also have ILCA/Laser tube sail bags so you can roll your ILCA/Laser sail, and nice ILCA/Laser blade bags in stock.

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 $2...
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.

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 wi...
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.

KSL's Ali Meller just returned from racing the 505 UK Nationals out of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academ...
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.

A KSL sail cover for a Nonsuch 26
06/25/2025

A KSL sail cover for a Nonsuch 26

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 thi...
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.

We prefer that UV covers are stitched on with a zig-zag stitch rather than double or triple stitched. Double or triple s...
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.

Address

774 Baker Cr
Kingston, ON
K7M6P6

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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6135319373

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