For ten years from 2014 I made many hundreds of Plan B sails. IOM Sails are a continuation and further development under a new brand name now I no longer build Plan B yachts. I make sails for International One Metre yachts only and I do that very well indeed. I regularly race successfully using these sails on my own International One Metre Plan B yacht.

The sails are painstakingly crafted using precisely engineered templates and calibrated blocks to shape the luff curve allowances and the camber allowances of the conventional seams. The 10mm wide and tapered seams are securely glued with superior Tesa ultra-thin adhesive for stability in Australian Summer conditions.

The mainsail seams are evenly spaced with carbon fibre reinforced battens at the seams. The headsail seams are full and low in the sails.

The mainsails have soft taped pocket luffs with a bright stainless steel wire jackstay inserted. The tape is pierced for this wire to be attached to the mast with nine loose ties, tied over a 2.5mm diameter spacer.

The headsails have soft taped pocket luffs with a bright stainless steel wire forestay inserted. The luff curve and seam allowances induce significant fullness at the lower leading edge.

All substantial corner patches, flutter patches and reinforcing patches are of white woven polyester fabric but you can choose either white or black luff tapes for either or both mainsail and headsail. Black tell-tales for the headsail are included.

The black IOM insignia is applied as standard and you can choose at extra charge to have registration numbers and country designation letters neatly applied using one-time stencils and black permanent ink.

It is without a doubt that new sails are faster and that headsails need replacing more often than mainsails.