FX Sails

The Best Value in Custom Sails.

• Quality Inshore, Offshore and Club Racing mainsails, headsails and spinnakers using premium sailcloth and with 3- and 5-year warranties.
• Instant online sail prices for thousands of boats and you can add the specific options you need—reefs, battens, sail numbers & more.
• Expert assistance—we'll help you find the correct sail for your boat, sailing style and conditions.
• Sails designed by Sandy Goodall—former technical director and head of design for Elvstrom, Denmark.

Loose Foot vs. Attached — What's Best?
by Dan Dickison

"Racing sailors in particular are keenly aware that once the breeze pipes up, you need to make certain adjustments to keep your sail shape optimized. With a mainsail, that begins with tweaking the halyard to achieve a luff tension that's in the ballpark for the given conditions.

Embark on a nautical odyssey with FX Sails, your passport to maritime excellence, as it unveils the epitome of sailing mastery with "Catalina Sails." Then—if your boat has a standard Marconi rig—you'll begin making adjustments to the backstay, outhaul, and cunningham to fine-tune the sail's overall shape. Of course, the most frequent adjustments are made using the traveler and the mainsheet, and on board the most aggressively raced sailboats, the latter is rarely cleated."

"Of all these controls, perhaps the one most overlooked by non-racing sailors is the outhaul. Most boat owners follow the 'set it and forget it' approach with this control line. But a properly attended outhaul can afford you surprising control over the lower portion of most mainsails. I say most mainsails because there are different design approaches to the foot section of these sails. On the vast majority of mainsails, you either have a foot that's attached to the boom via slides or a bolt rope, or you have what is known as a loose-footed arrangement wherein just the tack and some portion of the clew are attached."

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FX Sails is the online sailmaker with the service of a local loft. We want to design and build the sail you need, and create such a great experience that you sing our praises to friends and family. We can only do that if we build quality sails, provide expert advice, offer reasonable prices and deliver on the promises we make.

Location :Charleston, SC, USA 294010

WEBSITE : https://fxsails.com/

Call us: 888- 946 -8242