Dear Windsurfers,
I have been surfing since 1988 and I am a windsurf instructor. Two years ago I decided to make my own windsurf sail. I watched many custom sails and factory made sails on youtube. For my project my uncle gave me a 55 years old professional sewing machine.(not zig zag-plain sewing ) Than I designed my room for sail making. My room area is only 15 square meters. I bought many large wood planks for sewing table. For sail material I used icy monofilm (not transparent ) and dacron fabric which are %100 polyester. Icy monofilm thickness is 150 micron and weight is 210gr/m2. Dacron thickness is 200 micron and weight is 220gr/m2. I produced 3 sails. My first sail is 4.8 m2 my second sail is 4.0 m2 and my third sail is 5.5 m2. I tested all my sails in heavy wind. (25 knots to 34 knots). Results are unbelievable. No demage all the stitchs are sturdy. Easy gybing easy water start and easy to roll the sail. It cost me 125-135 US dollars. (each sail). However I spent 40 days to make each sail. Because my workshop is to small and too much stitch. If you are interested in producing homemade sail I am ready to give you all the details.
By the way my first board is Fanatic Falcon 110lt and my second board is F2 Ride 103 lt.











Melih Sengil Ankara TURKEY