Old/new sails.

I was given a 1960 Ent a fair few years ago, with it came a set of 15+ year old but virtually unused sails. It was my dad's best buddy who gave me the boat and he asked that I paid him a modest sum for the sails which I did gladly. I taught my kids to sail in that boat and eventually gave the hull to a mate to convert for pottering on the canal (it was beyond handling rig tension by then) and sold the spars and sails to a young guy who was restoring an Ent himself. These things go around....

Had another look, it is Lens footed, they are 'Speed Sails'.

It might want new bolt ropes but will otherwise be fine, with the caveat that its designed for a rig that was modern at the time. Not much has changed since.

Originally posted by ColPrice2002 Do check the luff and foot bolt ropes! These tend to shrink over time. That will mean the main won't go up to the top black band - it may cause severe wrinkling of the luff. Might be worth checking when the Enterprise class adopted spreaders - the original boats didn't have them - but did have wooden masts... Colin

a set of Enterprise sails from 1992  unless specifically  cut  for an  out of date rig would likely  be cut for a Proctor D+ or the equivalent Superspars  mast  , with spreaders and  working with significant rig tension