Every sail and cover on this page is cut or sized for the Formosa 56, 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 54.2 m² cross-cut Dacron mainsail, cut to the 15.75 m luff and 5.88 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 17.35 m × 6.20 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 Formosa 56. The link opens it with the right size selected.
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Every Formosa 56 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) | 17.35 | 56.9 |
| J (fore-triangle base) | 6.20 | 20.3 |
| P (mainsail luff) | 15.75 | 51.7 |
| E (mainsail foot) | 5.88 | 19.3 |
| Mainsail area | 54.2 m² | 583 ft² |
| Fore-triangle area | 53.8 m² | 579 ft² |
| Length overall (approx.) | 17.07 | 56 |
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$6,468 in Dimension-Polyant Optimum Cruise with 3 leech battens and a full-length head batten, or A$6,729.80 with 4 full battens. C-Breeze, the long-life cloth, starts at A$8,421.60. Every mainsail is cut to the Formosa 56 rig (P 15.75 m, E 5.88 m) with two reefs.
We build 110% to 150% LP for the standard rig (I 17.35 m, J 6.20 m). Pick a smaller genoa for a windy home port and a larger one for light-air sailing. Furling genoas start at A$6,506.50.
A Size 11 (133 m²) asymmetric suits the Formosa 56 fore-triangle. It starts at A$3,793.90, or A$4,914.80 with a dousing sock.
The Offshore Special Regulations cap a storm jib at 5% of I squared (15.1 m² here) and a trysail at 17.5% of P × E (16.2 m²). That makes our Maxi (12 m²) storm jib and Maxi (15.5 m²) trysail the right sizes.
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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