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Sail cloth weights and conversions

  • 09 Dec 2016 23:26
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    Peter Schaefer wrote:

    Some time ago I found a conversion table for sail measures on the website of Challange Sails. As it seems to be not online any longer, I put a PDF copy into my documents folder in the BOX area.

    There you can find a translation into an Excel spreadsheet as well. This also contains the -now dead- link to it's origin. Use the spreadsheet at your own risk as I did not check it for faults -;)

    Hope this clears some confusion..

    Cheers, Peter

    Aaah, many thanks, Peter.  That's what I was remembering.  Nice to know I'm not quite gaga, yet!

    And they can be found in Members' Area in Your Files.


    Last modified: 09 Dec 2016 23:31 | Anonymous member
  • 08 Dec 2016 23:55
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    Anonymous

    Some time ago I found a conversion table for sail measures on the website of Challange Sails. As it seems to be not online any longer, I put a PDF copy into my documents folder in the BOX area.

    There you can find a translation into an Excel spreadsheet as well. This also contains the -now dead- link to it's origin. Use the spreadsheet at your own risk as I did not check it for faults -;)

    Hope this clears some confusion..

    Cheers, Peter
  • 08 Dec 2016 21:35
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    In an old Norwegian book about boats they have a quick rule of thumb:

    Going from British ounces, to metric, multiply by 33 and
    going from US ounces to metric, multiply by 44.

    That is close enough, I guess.

    Arne
  • 08 Dec 2016 20:59
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    Hi all,

    That I found on a french site:


    1 oz/Sq Yd = 33,99 g/m² (40 gr/m² = 1,18 oz/Sq Yd)

    (SailMaker's ounces = smoz) ,  1 smoz = 42,83 g/m² et 40 gr/m² = 0,93 smoz.
  • 08 Dec 2016 20:53
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    I saw that, Arne, but I thought I remembered someone posting something more complete, including USAnian measures, Imperial and Metric.  Maybe I dreamt it.  The trouble is, when it's quoted in ounces on an Australian website - are they talking USA ounces or UK ounces?  Sigh.
  • 08 Dec 2016 20:29
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    Annie,
    I searched my list of favourite topics ( http://goo.gl/69ogMi ) 
    and came over this:

    http://www.junkrigassociation.org/technical_forum/1206989#3835503

    Fast conclusion:
    1 ounce/sq.yd = 33.91g/sqm

    Arne

    Last modified: 08 Dec 2016 20:50 | Anonymous member (Administrator)
  • 08 Dec 2016 20:10
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    Didn't some clever person post a link or something to help convert eg US sail cloth weight to metric?  I've looked in the Good Sail Cloth for JR thread, but couldn't find it.  Maybe someone could post it again here.  Roger Scott is exploring different cloths for his next sail and I'm trying to get a feel for the ones he's looking at.


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