[quote=foursail]I have made several sails now and modified more. I have never seen a sail made from one panel. When I was looking for colored sail cloth I was surprised to find Hobie was the driving force for colored sail cloth being available. When they switched to painted/dyied sail cloth in the eighties, color sail cloth selection became limited to few basic colors in Dacron. My understanding was that these multi color panels were still made on a roll that needed to be sewed together to form the sail after talking to sail cloth manufactures. They said they they would make any color or print I wanted as long as I ordered ten thousand yards. Most of the colored rolls we're 36" because it was the Hobie approximate batten spacing and generated the less waisted cloth. I would think a sail made out of one panel would generated a lot of waste, plus the overlapping seams generated the batten pockets which are more difficult to add after the cloth is sewed together or if it was cut from one panel.[/quote]
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