SNIPE

Olimpic Sails started making Snipe sails more than 20 years ago, acquiring a significant experience in its class over the years. Therefore the sail loft has achieved prestigious results and has contributed in winning several national Championships.

In 2003 we started a highly fruitful co-operation with one of the best Snipe sailors in the world: the Brazilian Alexandre Paradede who has now become the manager of our sail loft in Brazil.

Later other excellent names such as Peter Commette, Ernesto Rodriguez and Manu Hens joined our testing team, thanks to whom our product is kept updated in order to guarantee always the best results and the numerous international victories demonstrate it.

Easy to tune and very all-round, the latest versions of our CRC and XPM mainsails, matching the AR2-F and XPJ jibs, are a guarantee of success.

Sail mmodels

Mainsails

The CRC mainsail is the ultimate evolution of the previous models. The sail has a greater mast's curvature, it is more powerful in the lower section and it has less volume in the upper one. These characteristics make the sail very fast in particular in light air conditions since the leech is fastened on the top, which makes it easier to adjust. This Mainsail has achieved excellent results and is now one of the most sought-after sails world-wide.

The XPM mainsail has less mast's curvature, more volume in the upper section and shallower in the lower one. More critical in adjustments in light air, where it is needed to pay more attention in order not to fasten the leech too tight on the top part, instead it results particularly fast from the 8/10 knots on.

Jibs

This jib came out as an evolution from the previous models in order to adapt to the greater rig tensions used by several crews. The depth in the front part has been incresed to make it more powerful and to facilitate it when crossing a wave.

The XPJ jib was designed to be fast and easy to adjust in moderate and strong breeze conditions. the leech is more linear and less twisted, and it needs an accurate sheet regulation under 8 knots in order not to fasten it too high on the sail.