Double Dose of Dacron

One of the major items on our list for Magic was a new headsail.  There was no headsail onboard when we bought her, so, until we got any headsail -- we would be going nowhere.

But the challenge of course was getting the correct measurements and working with a sailmaker who would not be able to see/measure the boat in person.  We wandered around at the spring boat show -- WOW -- those yards of fabric with designer names were pricey!  Granted the headsail is key to the wind "engine", but we wanted to find a reasonable price option as well.

We had decided to be able to set the boat up to handle double headsails -- one headsail to port and one headsail to starboard -- so we could tuck the main away and ride downwind like on rails with acres of dacron out front.  So we really were in the market for 2 nearly matching sails.  We emailed with another Privilege 39 owner--Captain Dave on Maxing Out--and with his guidance found Rolly Tasker Sail Maker in Thailand.  Rolly Tasker caters to cruising sailors world wide and we found working them to be professional, reasonable and prompt.  

We measured and measured the boat to fill out their form.  We had a local rigger measure the boat.  And then we measured again.  Golly, I hope these sails fit!

We have been tracking the package since Rolly Tasker handed them over to UPS.  Today they arrived:

We have high dreams that this double dose of dacron for our double headsails will safely take us a long long way!