Innovative product of the week: A spinnaker image

8:29 PM Sat 27 Mar 2010 GMT

'Spinnaker image - you don’t have to have a superyacht' .

Imagine sailing your local waterway with a spinnaker distinguished by a huge image - one that makes a bold statement, cheeky, innovative, or the picture of a loved one. Imagine the first time you set that spinnaker as a surprise for the person in the picture!

Just think about a 200 sq meter photo-quality smiling face. Now that would that be a head turner! Or you could set a huge cruising spinnaker with a photo of your favourite pet - or the kids, or something more eye-turning. Only your imagination can set the limits.

UK-Halsey Sailmakers has teamed up with a Danish company that has perfected the technology for printing on sail cloth -- including silicone coated nylon. Now they can build a sail for you that is says a lot more about you than a good colour combination could ever do.

They can print any image on your spinnaker while barely changing the physical characteristics of the spinnaker cloth. Today's technology enables every sailor to get the image of their dream on their boat's spinnaker.

The manufacture - .. .

All you need to do is send them a JPEG or vector graphic of what you would like on your sail. It can be as plain or as detailed as you want. Why should advertisers be the only ones seeing their logos boldly displayed?

For a price of 80 Euros you can have a full-page test print on spinnaker cloth. This cost will be credited toward the purchase of a spinnaker with a printed graphic.

Having a printed graphic will add about three weeks to the production time of your sail.

To inquire for further information, contact the loft in Brookvale in Sydney.

Top Floor 13 Carter Rd (above Ultra Tune)
Brookvale NSW 2100
(02) 9938 5571

by Nancy Knudsen