I used Top Gun 9/Mustang for Tystie's latest sails, and I must say that I wasn't impressed with the chafe resistance; after the passage from Canada to New Zealand, there were places around the mast where the filler had been worn away. This fabric has too much filler, too little densely woven cloth, as does Odyssey. Top Gun 11oz is a different thing entirely, and seems to perform well. I think that I'd choose Weathermax 80 for a mid weight cloth, where Top Gun was too heavy.

Well, I am being held up in placing my fabric order. apparently "top gun 9" is much harder to find in the US than "top gun" and as long as i am dependent on "marine warehouse" to ship my fabric to panama i am not sure i can get it.

this took me down a wormhole investigating "top notch 9", and other fabrics. though the "top gun"s  seem to have much higher abrasion resistance. and severe chafe is endemic to my rig. I am open to more suggestions, for fabric choices or shipping to panama options. I have been using sails built in the 70s for 10 years and they are thrashed. i am soooo sick of patching after every daysail i am hoping to make something the same shape (they work well) that i know i can use a long time. the boat weighs 16 tons and we are headed to high latitudes. I dont really want to go down to 6.5 oz cloth.

also what do folks think about boltrope? i was planning on putting one because of the way my old sails tended to self destruct starting at the ends of the battens , and once i had all the grommets holding the main to its yard rip out at once. probably new fabric is sufficient stop that for a few years, but i am ordering some line anyway soo boltrope?.  buuut... it is an added expense so maybe no?

i am attaching a comparison chart of varios fabrics including top gun, top notch and odessy from marlen fabrics. 

Is it the Top Gun you want to know about, or the Colvin sails?  Kurt Ulmer made Top Gun sails for mehitabel years and years ago - and they are still going strong, having never been covered.  But offhand, I can't think of anyone who has made sails for a Colvin.  Quite a lot of the members don't use the website that much; it might be worth your going through the membership directory and searching for 'Colvin' and 'Top Gun' and see if this results in a member who has made their own sails.  I'm sure they'd be only too happy for you to contact them.

Shirley and I are old friends and keep in regular contact.  The last I heard from her was in early May when she was getting ready to set off towards the Gambier Is.  She hadn't mentioned Ecuador.  However, it is now 19th July and I have heard nothing.  She should have been there ages ago and although getting an Internet connection isn't straightforward, there, I would have expected she'd have found a way.  You haven't heard anything, I assume?