REGATTA
OLIMPIC SAILS' mission has always been a commitment to development and innovation. Thanks to this philosophy, the thirty years of the sail loft's history have been full of great satisfactions and successes in regattas throughout the world.
Today, OLIMPIC is more than ever responsive to the demands of boat-owners, offering completely custom-made products for any offshore yacht.
With its new MACROS and SPACE technology, OLIMPIC is able to design the volumes, structure and position of every single fibre in a sail and, above all, to construct its membranes in-house without having to turn to external suppliers.
In this way, OLIMPIC is one of the few sail lofts in the world to be able to control the entire production process of every sail, maintaining the very highest levels of quality.
DOWNWIND
Throughout the past years broad reach sails have gone through a considerable evolution to adapt to modern sailing plans, so much to extend in use over the traditional bowline sails at times, in points of sail where genoas are not particularly efficient and spinnakers create more disbandment than speed.
This brought Olimpic Sails to a planning strain which came out with new sails technologies such as Code0, upwind or rollable downwind in addition to spinnakers and asymmetrics studied from time to time, based upon the type of boat and to the ratings, where shape and material, rather than surface, perform a winning role.
The attached outline gives a rough idea of the utilization:
It is a sail studied for the most narrow points of sail, up to 40/45 degrees of apparent wind. The materials used go from nylon to laminates and the sail is equipped with in spectra or anti-twisting stay and winder to facilitate its use.
It is a sail used mainly in coasting regattas in points of sail between hauled/wind abeam with light air and close reach when the wind raises.
It is the lightest and smallest sail. It is used when, in case of light air, it is necessary to lean over with sharp angles trying to maintain the boat's speed anytime it is possible to bear away.
When the wind raises it is the moment to use this sail to be able to bear away, not slowing the boat's speed. Its profile is deeper with constant curves and the dimensions are the greatest possible.
This sail preserves the features of the S2 or A2 sails although utilizing a more solid material in order not to deform along with the increase of the wind's intensity.
It is a near-gale sail, slimmer heavier and smaller; Its profile is studied to give stability to the boat in critical conditions.
