Sail technology
Carbon tape, laid on a flat table along the lines the sail is loaded on. The structure is drawn with the shape, then built to it.
Mane is Lion Sailing's carbon tape construction. There is no bolt of cloth to cut from. The loft lays continuous carbon tape on a flat table, each run placed and angled to follow a load path, then consolidates the whole layout into one sail. Where the head, tack and clew pull hardest, the tape stacks up. Through the lightly loaded body, it thins out.
It sits beside Paneled and Stride. Paneled is cut from cloth and seamed. Stride builds the sail from carbon thread. Mane builds it from tape: wider runs of carbon that stay unbroken from one loaded corner to the next. The loft will say which of the three suits the boat and the program.
Load in a sail is not even. It gathers at the corners and runs along a few lines between them: up the leech from clew to head, down the luff, and across the foot. Mane is built on those lines. The flying shape sets the loads, the loads set the tape layout, and the layout is fixed before anything is consolidated.
Shape and structure are drawn together, not one after the other. The aerodynamic shape and the tape layout come out of the same design pass, so the structure is part of the sail rather than something added to it.
Mane sails are built to order. On the quote form, pick Mane under Construction and send the rig measurements. The racing and offshore programs are the rest of the inventory.