I too am getting back in this..and I can only imagine that technology and composite fabrics are better than ever
Laying two sails on each other will not tell you if the broadseaming changeD. But in any event the last time there was any known change to the sail was when production moved to Sri Lanka 15 years or so back. At that point the cloth changed some.Lay two sails on top of each other and check them out? At one point they started cutting the sail fuller, was it after 2005? Anyone got an old and new with pics to compare?
TAG is right that Scott's tuning article is good, but the gooseneck settings in it were made obsolete when the plastic daggerboard was introduced.
BB, can you go into more detail on how the gooseneck settings change with the plastic board? Or what they should be now?
Does your stalwart NE sailor have the initials GG? If so, we can follow up by PM.after listening to a rant from a New England class stalwart about his overlaying sails from different eras on each other and finding variations not so much in the way they are cut but the way they are sewn, I'm not so sure I'm crazy.