Bookmark 10-21-2009

Sailcloth of flexible composite laminate and method of making a sail thereof

The invention relates to sailcloth (20) comprising a flexible composite laminate (10) of at least two stacked unidirectional sheets (1,2) of parallelly arranged drawn polymeric tapes (11,12,21,22,23,24). The sheets are at least partly adhered to each other such that the sailcloth has a stable three- dimensional shape. The sailcloth may be locally reinforced by additional unidirectional and/or woven sheets and/or tapes (611,612,...). The invention also relates to a method for producing the sailcloth, and to a sail comprising the sailcloth according to the invention. The sailcloth is extremely light weight, durable and shows excellent form consistency.

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