Would you like to combine great power and performance in lighter wind conditions with easy handling? Then the Code Sail is well worth a consideration.
Codes serve as a great medium between a genoa and setting a real spinnaker, giving you more power whilst maintaining all the advantages of a furling sail when it comes to the handling of it.
The code can “replace” the engine in light breeze and give the boat high speed under effortless sailing on broad reach in medium breeze. The code sail family is a large one. Common for all of them is that they are set while they are furled in, and when they are up you unfurl and sail away. Before dousing, you furl the sail in, and in this way the handling is very easy.
Code sails can be delivered with an Anti-torsion cable in the luff, and some of these sails can be left hoisted if they have a UV-cover. Cable-free code sails are also popular, and they cover a larger range of wind angles since they have a positive luff curve that also take them partly in to the asymmetric family of sails. The cable free code sails shall have the luff tight when they are furled in, and slightly eased when sailing.
Code sails can be built in different materials, from code laminates to EPEX membrane. And in different designs as well.
How to: Setting and using the Code 65%
What is it like to use a Code 65%? And what are the tricks to handle it? Here, you can join our Mads Christian Taatø on the X-Yachts X-362 to get a quick intro on handling.