Sailmaker UB Sails

Welcome to the website of UB Sails (United Baltic Sails). UB Sails is a quickly expanding company specialized in sailmaking for traditional sailing boats and tall ships. Especially for larger ships we deliver worldwide.

As the performance of these ships has increased over the years and many regattas are specially organized for this specific group, we have developed special software in order to optimize the shape of their sails.

However more and more we also supply to yacht owners with boats and ships varying from casual cruising yachts, cruiser-racers, offshore sailers, and even to those ships equipped with more high-tech cloths.

We have gained a reputation amongst our customers for:

Offering the sails at very competitive prices
Excellent quality of our products
Having a rather compact range to enable good overview
A very open ear to the individual wishes of our clients
Good service and flexibility

Our quality we obtain by:

Cloth:

UB Sails always only uses cloths of the worlds leading manufacturers and from them we choose the best available quality suitable for your ship.

Design and
cutting:

The computer program we use is Prosail. Specially developed by a company from New Zealand, it is one of the most advanced software package available to our branch. For cutting the panels we use a sophisticated plotting/cutting table.

Finishing:

We pay special attention to the finishing details of our sails. The reinforcements are very strong and we use almost excessive amounts of material for this, instead of trying to save some money here. UB Sails insists on a standard finish that guarantees a long lifetime and last but not least: Safety and reliability in all weather conditions.

On the following pages you will be offered the opportunity to choose from a standard range of products. The market for sails has become quite complex due to the development of (maybe even too) many different types of cloth.
For many sailors however some proven standards are quite sufficient and sails made from these cloths (provided the design and the workmanship are OK) can be used to great satisfaction and with good result.

Also to be able to work cost efficiently UB Sails standard offers you a basic range of products on which our clients and we have gathered excellent experience for over many years now. They are divided into three quality levels. The first two levels are made of of the well known and widely used (approximately 80% of the sails) polyester (Dacron) cloth.

Touring

This is the quality used for the largest group of yachts. The sails are made of a good type of polyester and generally designed cross cut.

Cruising

These sails are made from the finest quality polyester cloth. They are meant for those who want to spend a little more on quality but also sail in perhaps more demanding circumstances.
The extra quality is obtained in two ways: a)The process of weaving the cloth, which leads to a finer structure; and b) The polyester used is more advanced. These differences result in a cloth that keeps a better shape over a longer period of time.

Racing

This is the quality in which we work with laminated cloths. These cloths are made of 3 or 5 layers. The outer layers are made from polyester and the inner layer are made of mylar. These sails keep excellent shape. Depending on your choice these cloths however have a shorter lifespan compared to the cloths used in the touring and cruising qualities.
Standard we design the sails made of laminated cloths in a bi- or triradial way.