Every sail and cover on this page is cut or sized for the LM Mermaid 270, 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 17.0 m² cross-cut Dacron mainsail, cut to the 9.71 m luff and 3.00 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 10.26 m × 3.00 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 LM Mermaid 270. The link opens it with the right size selected.
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Every LM Mermaid 270 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) | 10.26 | 33.7 |
| J (fore-triangle base) | 3.00 | 9.8 |
| P (mainsail luff) | 9.71 | 31.9 |
| E (mainsail foot) | 3.00 | 9.8 |
| Mainsail area | 17.0 m² | 183 ft² |
| Fore-triangle area | 15.4 m² | 166 ft² |
| Length overall (approx.) | 7.92 | 26 |
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$1,592.80 in Dimension-Polyant Optimum Cruise with 3 leech battens and a full-length head batten, or A$1,734.70 with 4 full battens. C-Breeze, the long-life cloth, starts at A$2,134. Every mainsail is cut to the LM Mermaid 270 rig (P 9.71 m, E 3.00 m) with two reefs.
We build 110% to 150% LP for the standard rig (I 10.26 m, J 3.00 m). Pick a smaller genoa for a windy home port and a larger one for light-air sailing. Furling genoas start at A$1,357.40.
A Size 1 (37 m²) asymmetric suits the LM Mermaid 270 fore-triangle. It starts at A$1,214.40, or A$1,774.30 with a dousing sock.
The Offshore Special Regulations cap a storm jib at 5% of I squared (5.3 m² here) and a trysail at 17.5% of P × E (5.1 m²). That makes our Small (4.5 m²) storm jib the right size. No stock trysail 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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For a race programme, a Sydney to Hobart or a bluewater expedition, our sister loft Kraken Sails designs laminates, membrane sails and storm wardrobes for the hard end of sailing.
