Fireball Sails

Design Notes

We have been making Fireball sails over many years and have had many major successes. Over the years we have constantly developed our sail designs to suit the changing rigs and like all other sailmakers, we now standardise around the current pre-bent M7/ Stratos/Cumulus rig which is now widely used on modern boats. We do still have our older designs available.

Our standard jib design is a full and powerful sail which is at its best on open water. It is designed with half width panels to give a very tailored sail shape and extra power towards the head. For those of you sailing on restricted water our flatter design will probably be better since the finer entry angle will give better pointing when you need it

The current mainsail is designed with a fair amount of shape built in, but is readily de-powered if you are lightweight, by modifying the spreader length. It is cut for a medium amount of pre-bend and ideally the mast should have a strut to control the basic power in differing conditions. The sail can be used with the M7 Stratos or Cumulus mast, and it is fitted with a lens foot as standard.

We have various design of spinnaker available, a medium sized spinnaker is our current design, but we have two small size spinnakers - one of which is particularly for lightweight crews and the other is a punchy downwind sail.

Jib

• 4.46 Contender Polykote Dacron
• Window fitted as standard

Mainsail

• 4.46 Contender Polykote Dacron
• Lens foot as standard.

Spinnaker

• Contender Dynalite (or Bainbridge AirX)
• Choice of colours
• Downhaul patch if required