Every sail and cover on this page is cut or sized for the Alerion Express 20, at a fixed published price. Mainsails and genoas are cut in Dimension-Polyant Dacron, and we check your measurements with you before anything is cut.
Illustration. Yours is cut to this boat’s measurements.A 13.9 m² cross-cut Dacron mainsail, cut to the 7.77 m luff and 3.05 m foot, with two reefs. Three leech battens and a full head batten as standard, or four full battens if you want it to stack neatly on the boom.
You choose: cloth (Optimum Cruise or C-Breeze), battens, build time.
Illustration. Yours is cut to this boat’s measurements.Cut for the 7.01 m × 2.13 m fore-triangle, with a Sunbrella UV cover sewn in V138 thread. Pick 110% LP for a breezy home port, up to 150% for light-air sailing.
You choose: cloth (Optimum Cruise or C-Breeze), size (110%–150% LP), UV cover colour, build time.
Each one is matched to the Alerion Express 20. The link opens it with the right size selected.
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Every Alerion Express 20 price in your inbox: mainsail and genoa in each cloth, the spinnaker, sock, storm sails and canvas, plus the rig dimensions.
| Measurement | Metres | Feet |
|---|---|---|
| I (fore-triangle height) | 7.01 | 23.0 |
| J (fore-triangle base) | 2.13 | 7.0 |
| P (mainsail luff) | 7.77 | 25.5 |
| E (mainsail foot) | 3.05 | 10.0 |
| Mainsail area | 13.9 m² | 149 ft² |
| Fore-triangle area | 7.5 m² | 81 ft² |
| Length overall (approx.) | 6.10 | 20 |
We confirm your measurements before anything is cut. Different numbers on your boat? Ask us and we will price it to your rig.
From A$1,261.70 in Dimension-Polyant Optimum Cruise with 3 leech battens and a full-length head batten, or A$1,406.90 with 4 full battens. C-Breeze, the long-life cloth, starts at A$1,417.90. Every mainsail is cut to the Alerion Express 20 rig (P 7.77 m, E 3.05 m) with two reefs.
We build 110% to 150% LP for the standard rig (I 7.01 m, J 2.13 m). Pick a smaller genoa for a windy home port and a larger one for light-air sailing. Furling genoas start at A$622.60.
A Size 00 (27 m²) asymmetric suits the Alerion Express 20 fore-triangle. It starts at A$896.50, or A$1,421.20 with a dousing sock.
The Offshore Special Regulations cap a storm jib at 5% of I squared (2.5 m² here) and a trysail at 17.5% of P × E (4.2 m²). No stock trysail is small enough for this rig, so we quote one to fit. No stock storm jib is small enough for this rig, so we quote one to fit.
Measure I, J, P and E and compare them with the rig table. We confirm every measurement with you before the sail is cut.
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