Every sail and cover on this page is cut or sized for the Nissen 50, 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 74.3 m² cross-cut Dacron mainsail, cut to the 19.53 m luff and 6.50 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 20.10 m × 5.40 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 Nissen 50. The link opens it with the right size selected.
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Every Nissen 50 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) | 20.10 | 65.9 |
| J (fore-triangle base) | 5.40 | 17.7 |
| P (mainsail luff) | 19.53 | 64.1 |
| E (mainsail foot) | 6.50 | 21.3 |
| Mainsail area | 74.3 m² | 799 ft² |
| Fore-triangle area | 54.3 m² | 584 ft² |
| Length overall (approx.) | 15.24 | 50 |
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$9,425.90 in Dimension-Polyant Optimum Cruise with 3 leech battens and a full-length head batten, or A$9,713 with 4 full battens. C-Breeze, the long-life cloth, starts at A$12,103.30. Every mainsail is cut to the Nissen 50 rig (P 19.53 m, E 6.50 m) with two reefs.
We build 110% to 150% LP for the standard rig (I 20.10 m, J 5.40 m). Pick a smaller genoa for a windy home port and a larger one for light-air sailing. Furling genoas start at A$6,564.80.
A Size 11 (133 m²) asymmetric suits the Nissen 50 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 (20.2 m² here) and a trysail at 17.5% of P × E (22.2 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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