After a breakage of a sail we found a broken camber in the beginning of the rip of the sail.
The issue is that cambers may break in the thinner edge leaving a sharp edge, causing the sail luff to rip under tension.
The breakage of the cambers may be caused by the fast release of the downhaul tension of the sail, but even if taking them off by hand they might break in the very edge after some use, because of the thin and relatively flexible material in the edge.
I've been using severne cambered sails for years, and is very frequent to find broken cambers in sails older than 12 months.
Talking to the sail repair, he told me this is a very common case and is repairing many sails with this specific rip, in the boom area, in the mounting side of the sail. It can't be just casual.
This particular sail is from 2022 with very little use though the pictures arent good, and carefully dismounted every time.
Could be a good idea to round the edges of the camber as they are not really touching the mast to make them more resistant as in the loft sails or redesign them to make them less square in the edges, kind of round to the center.
All of you with severne cambers take care in the releasing of the downhaul and revise them all frequently.
I know these are racing sails but at the price point is a shame they are so weak in all aspects y really annoying they just dont give a s about reinforcing as other brands do.
Any more cases?
The lowest camber on my race sails have a bit of that damage too. To me it mostly happens in winter here, and when pushing the camber onto the mast during rigging. The very lip is not important while sailing though and they can easily be rounded off and shortened a bit in order slip onto the mast a little easier, and it will not effect the performance during sailing in any way.
I have never seen the damage to the luff sleeve on the sail though, that cannot be caused by the missing chip on the camber. It must have been something else causing that type of damage, in my opinion.
