A CUSTOM MEASUREMENT FORM

Dear Sailor,

Use this form to measure your boat before you take the mast down this fall. It will take about an hour of your time to measure and fill the form out and it will assure that any sail you add to your inventory will fit perfectly. A proper fit means that the sail will last longer, is easy to set right and is "fast out of the bag!"

Although we have specifications for most production boats in our files, they are unreliable. Boat builders often change details about the rig and deck layout without notification, your actual mast rake may differ from the original design and, undocumented modifications have often been made by previous owners.

Measure your boat this week! Mail a copy of this form back to us so that we can place it in your file at the loft and be ready to build your new sail when you are ready to order it.

Thanks in advance!

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MEASUREMENTS FOR A SAILCOVERUSING LAZY JACKS

A. Circumference of mast at top of cover

B. Length on fwd side of cover

C. Size (length) of hood for headboard (and sketch of shape required)

D. Circumference of sial - just abaft of mast including headboard

E. Circumference of sail about 1/3 down from head

F. Cirecumference around sail and mast diagonally to bottom fwd corner of cover

G. Circumference of sail and boom 3' abaft center fwd side of mast

H. Circumference of sail and boom 5' abaft center fwd of mast

I. Circumference of sail and boom 1' fwd of clew

II. Circumference of sail and boom at outhaul car or clew

J. Circumference of boom abaft clew or outhaul car

K. Length of cover measured from center of forward side of mast to where (J) was measured

L. Note location of permanent boom vangs, lazy jack attachments, winches, etc. relative to center fwd of mast and bottom center of boom.

M. Note location of sheet blocks, boom gallows and anything that requires either a notch or skipping a fastener at that point, realtive as above

N. Note location of winches on port or starboard of mast and their base dameter. Measure location relative to center fwd of mast and bottom of cover.