Fully vacuumed, flat 11.0m long x 2.7m wide, multi-tool cutting including pizza wheel, tangent knife, plotting tool heads, and Patternsmith software for in-house design, digitising, and nesting capabilities.
Industries: Combining our vastly experienced team with a state of the art cutting machine allows us to cut a wide range of materials for customers across a variety of industries, including but not limited to:
• Sailmaking
• Covermaking
• Graphics
• Automotive
• Upholstery
• Packaging
• Medical
• Defence
• Tent and marquee
• Inflatable structure
• Flooring
• Outdoor equipment
Cutting Service
Bainbridge Cutting Service (BCS) offers you:
• Increased capacity and output
• The opportunity to meet spikes in demand and large one-off orders
• A streamlined production process
• Maximised material yield
• Significantly reduced waste
• A clean consistent cut
Materials: Our Blackman & White automated cutting machine provides a perfect cut across a wide variety of materials, including but not limited to:
• Woven Sailcloth
• Laminates
• Spinnaker nylons
• Cover acrylics and
• Vinyl upholstery polyesters fabrics
• Composites
• Vinyl
• PVC textiles
• Cardboard
• Hypalon
Bainbridge International has always recognised that as a trade supplier our success is dependent on the success of our customers. With this in mind, Bainbridge continues to update and evolve the marketing support it offers. This ranges from a comprehensive leaflet and sample system to websites dedicated to both the trade and helping the end user understand that specifying Bainbridge products is an investment in performance and value.
Spinnaker Fabrics -
SPINNAKER FABRICS
Delivering a spinnaker fabric with consistent performance throughout the fabric weight range coupled with excellent tear strength and durability.
¡ Cruising spinnaker fabric developed to offer the optimum balance between durability, value and range
¡ Specially designed for cruise and club race application
¡ High strength 6.6 nylon yarn used throughout, creating a very strong cloth which performs even at high wind loads
¡ High density and low porosity weave construction for high tear strengths, reducing damage risk from rig contact
¡ Ideal weave and finish for snuffers and furling units - upper weights are stronger than equivalent polyester - ideal for handling local strain caused by furlers
¡ Finish and elongation figures are complimentary across the whole range, allowing for composite weights to be used, especially useful for furling sails
AWS (Apparent Wind Speed, knots) Custom colours to matched references available to special order - please contact us for more details.
Please note:
SPINNAKER FABRICS
MPEX70N generic 0.75oz multi-purpose nylon spinnaker fabric, designed specifically for cruise and club race applications. Manufactured using the same technology as AIRX, but with greater emphasis on durability and value.
¡ Woven from high tenacity nylon
¡ Impregnated and coated for low air porosity and durability
¡ Balanced construction
¡ Ideal weave and finish for snuffers and furling units, ideal for handling local strain caused by furlers
MPEX90N generic 1.5oz multi-purpose nylon spinnaker fabric, designed specifically for cruise and club race applications. Manufactured using the same technology as AIRX, but with greater emphasis on durability and value.
¡ Woven from high tenacity nylon
¡ Impregnated and coated for low air porosity and durability
¡ Balanced construction
¡ Weight: 68gsm / 1.59smoz
¡ Width: 1520mm / 60in
¡ Specially designed for cruise and club race application
¡ Weight: 48gsm / 1.12smoz
¡ Width: 1520mm / 60in
¡ Specially designed for cruise and club race application
Spinnaker FabricsMPEX
Application Guide
Spinnaker Fabrics -
SPINNAKER FABRICS
Grand-Prix quality, race proven performance - AIRX the winner’s choice.
¡ High tenacity 6.6 nylon yarns in a high density construction delivering light sails in higher wind ranges
¡ Double ripstop weave delivers exceptional burst and tear strength and reduces damage from rig contact and handling
¡ Fabric bias specifically engineered by weight to match optimum sail design
¡ High water repellency provides best physical performance and minimum sailing weight
¡ High density weave constructions deliver extremely low porosity which generates maximum power
¡ Elongation results make AIRX ideal for modern asymmetric sails using step-down construction
¡ AIRX excels in dealing with higher loads created by these designs
¡ Finish and elongation figures are complimentary across the whole range, ideal for strong lightweight composite race applications
Grand Prix Spinnaker Fabrics combine unprecedented strength, performance and quality.
¡ Features exceptional burst and tear strength, allowing lighter sails to be used in higher wind ranges
¡ Unparalled strength and efficiency
¡ Superb water repellency due to zero porosity finish
¡ Class leading warp, fill & bias performance
¡ Excellent durability
Asymmetric Spinnaker - Application Guide
Symmetric Spinnaker - Application Guide
Spinnaker FabricsAIRX
Sailcloth
Woven FabricsSPX
WOVENS
SPX is a range of durable sailcloth utilising the latest weaving and finish techniques to deliver consistent quality, reliability and performance. It features tightly woven yarns with UV protection throughout. SPX incorporates high tenacity polyester across the range, whilst still providing ease of handling. Within the SPX range there are different constructions and colours suitable for a wide range of sail applications. Designed and made in Europe.
BALANCED 25
¡ Near parity strength in warp and fill ‘balances’ the cloth and make it suitable for low aspect sail designs
¡ SPX Balanced is produced to suit a larger variety of sail applications and features high tenacity yarns for strength and durability
¡ Strong Fill is produced as a high sley fabric with high fill denier
¡ This makes it ideal for high aspect sail designs
Note:
SPX Crosscut Sail Application
Please note: Application tables should only be used as a guide.
HSX is Bainbridge’s range of premium woven fabrics, for performance sails. HSX covers a broad range of uses, with Balanced, Strong Fill, Strong Warp and Vectran® Hybrid. High Tenacity and Super Tenacity yarns (HT & ST) are tightly woven to maximise the weave intersections and reduce the reliance on the finishing. Each style has its own distinctive weave pattern.
UV inhibitors provide a sailcloth that is tough and durable with a long service life. Made to our exacting standards in Europe.
See pages 20-23 for SuperLuff to match your sailcloth
¡ Balanced construction for a wide range of applications
¡ Unique double ripstop grid
¡ High tenacity yarn in warp and fill for highly stabilized weave
¡ Fill orientated cloth for high aspect sails
¡ Double fill yarn gives a 10mm fill stripe weave
¡ Combination of HT and ST yarns for optimised construction
¡ Warp orientated cloth with high tenacity yarns suitable for radial applications
¡ Double warp yarn gives a warp stripe weave
¡ Warp tension during precision finishing to minimise warp crimp
Note: All data based on griege unless stated otherwise
UV ST VECTRAN® HYBRID 27
¡ HSXV offers a premier hybrid fabric, incorporating super low stretch Vectran® yarns in a warp / fill ripstop matrix
¡ Balanced construction ideal for many performance applications
Diax Custom Laminate panels have been developed combining the experience gained from years of sailcloth production and the examination of extensive data gathered from nearly every type of sail and cloth. Our use of computer aeroelastic modelling allows us to put the yarns in exactly the required places for the loads that are predicted for a wide variety of usage and conditions.
Diax is sold as panels only, and are put together and finished by you, the sailmaker. Bainbridge will receive your design (complete with yarn panel layout) and supply you with the panels. Alternatively, we can take your design and apply our yarn layout to the design and supply the panels. Or again, we can design the sail with the correct layout and then supply the panels to be finished.
The Diax process is a logical development of sailcloth manufacturing which Bainbridge has been at the heart of for generations. The research and development in these materials has been adapted and applied to a new process to produce stronger, lighter, faster and longer lasting performance sails. Our Diax membranes offer several advantageous developments over other custom membrane production yarn laying.
Features include:
¡ Custom lamination: fibre choice, mix and distribution are perfected for the particular sail and the specific boat
¡ Strong lamination: use of stronger, higher quality resins giving longer life lamination than conventional sail cloth
¡ Efficient use of materials: Diax yarns are laid in custom arrays with all the yarns being laid exactly where they are needed, providing the lightest, strongest and most durable sail available in the market today
Substrates
Films: 0.5, 0.75 and 1 mil
Filmless: White, dark, grey and black
Heavy and light weight
Taffetas: Grey and white
Double and single external
Yarns
Polyester (PET)
This is a highly developed material with great strength and durability, which can accept many levels and types of finish.
Benefits:
¡ Excellent resiliency
¡ Great abrasion resistance
¡ High UV resistance
¡ Elevated flex strength
¡ Low cost
¡ Low absorbency for quick drying
PET has been replaced by stronger more technical fibres for the most serious racing applications, but remains the most popular sailcloth due to its low price and high durability.
Aramid
An aromatic polyamide fibre is basically similar molecularly with Nylon®. It has six sided molecular rings, which are formed into rods when the fibre is drawn.
Benefits:
¡ High stability
¡ Low stretch
¡ Zero creep
These benefits are also the reason it is susceptible to flex fatigue and abrasion.
Twaron®
A modified aramid fibre, which is similar molecularly with Nylon® Twaron® has six sided molecular rings, which are formed into rods when the fibre is drawn.
Benefits:
¡ High stability
¡ Low stretch
¡ Zero creep
In a similar way to Aramid also suffers flex fatigue. It has an outstanding ability to resist stretch and withstand loads and abuse before breaking is the benchmark.
This is a polyester-based fibre, but unlike polyester, is an aromatic polyester. It is synthesized from naphthalene and ethylene glycol, making it an aromatic polyester.
Benefits:
¡ Strength
¡ Stability
¡ Prevention of creep
Vectran® is a long chain molecule and classified as a liquid crystal, as its molecules can form crystalline structures whilst still liquid.
Carbon
High modulus synthetic fibre made from carbon atoms.
Benefits:
¡ Unaffected by UV exposure
¡ Exceptionally low stretch
Each carbon filament thread is a bundle of many thousand carbon filaments. A single filament is a thin tube with a diameter of 5–8 micrometers and consists almost exclusively of carbon - arranged in a regular hexagonal pattern.
Available in:
Black: 1800 Dtex, 3600 Dtex
Dyneema®
Made from a very high molecular weight polyethylene, Dyneema® gets its huge strength from this very long chain, rather than a series of highly stable rods.
Benefits:
¡ Very high stretch modulus
¡ Superior breaking strain
¡ Unaffected by flex
¡ Superior UV resistance
¡ Abrasion resistant
This explains the great flex fatigue property. The creep factor (slow elongation with load over time) has been a problem, but new versions have dealt with this.
Available in:
SK 78: 1580 Dtex
SK 99: 800 Dtex
LaminatesDIAX
Luff TapeSuperLuff
¡ Coloured stitching for fast and easy identification
¡ Sewn construction – not heat welded
¡ Totally encapsulated high quality hard braid luff rope
¡ Made using Bainbridge Sailcloth
¡ Carefully controlled finished tape diameter to fit all types of headstay foils
¡ It’s not just super tuff – it’s SuperLuff
Custom SuperLuff tapes are available in colours and sizes to suit you project.
Please contact us with your specific requirements.
SuperLuff • BOLT ROPES
SuperLuff • SINGLE PRE-STRETCHED
Sailcloth
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - LIGHT POLYESTER
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - POLYESTER
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - RIPSTOP
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - VECTRAN®
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - DYNEEMA®
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - TEFLON®
SuperLuff • DOUBLE - IMPERIAL
Luff Tape - Welded
¡ Ultra-sound welded luff tape
¡ 9 x 9 1100 Dtex polyester fabric
¡ High quality low stretch hard braid primary rope
¡ Lightweight monofilament secondary rope
¡ Consistant size and spacing for accuracy
¡ Heavier weave polyester tape for extra durabiity
¡ Packaged on a reel for ease of use around the loft
Aramid PSA Patch
¡ Ideal for lightweight corner patches and local reinforcement on laminate sails
¡ Onboard laminate sail repairs
Aramid Patch Cloth137cm Adhesive backed
Luff Foam
Foam used to reduce camber (draft) of roller furling sail when partially furled. When sewn on luff in a crescent moon shape there will be more cloth rolled out of the middle than the ends to help flatten the reefed sail
¡ Foam padding flattens sail when furled
¡ Flatter sail reduces heeling, makes boat easier to steer
¡ Easy to cut
¡ Does not absorb water
¡ Available only on full rolls
¡ 1XPE physically cross linked foam
¡ 33 kg/m3 density
J744BK
Polyester Sailcloth with PSA
¡ Polyester sailcloth with a UV stable (non-yellowing) pressure sensitive adhesive coating with backing paper
¡ A comprehensive range of weights available
¡ Uses include: 2-ply, spreader and chafe patches, parts and repairs
F7010Z00M
F0808Z00Y
J742BK / J743BK / J744BK
PSA Acrylic
PSA Acrylic Solacryl is used to prevent UV radiation from attacking the headsail while a boat is moored. It is advisable to place a UV strip on its leech and foot. Once rolled up, the sail is completely protected from the harmful effects of the sun. Our PSA backing greatly increases efficiency during application, therefore reduces time and labour cost when fitting acrylic UV covers.
¡ Composition: 100% Solacryl Acrylic
¡ Finish: Special marine treatment
¡ High quality appearance of a traditional cover
¡ Acrylic yarns give excellent UV stability
¡ 100% solution dyed for consistent, rich, non-fade
¡ Fungi, bacteria and insert resistant
¡ Rot proof, oil and grease resistant
¡ Weight: 355gsm
¡ Width: 150cm
Monofilm PSA
¡ PSA polyester film with self adhesive backing material
PSA Polyester
¡ Odyssey® PSA is an acrylic coated, 100% woven polyester with pressure sensitive adhesive suitable for many indoor or outdoor applications
¡ Silicone release paper with printed grid pattern
¡ Pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA)
¡ Uses include: Sail numbers, patching and logos
¡ Cut lengths available
White
PolyesterInsignia
Kevlar Effect
Silver
Cream
Fluorescent Pink
Fluorescent Orange
Printable UV Coated Polyester Inisgnia
¡ Titanium dioxide pigment coating applied for the best UV protection
¡ Acrylic adhesive
¡ Works for most solvent digital inkjet printing
Printable Polyester Insignia
¡ Good weather resistance ¡ Good performance with easy writing and printable surface on yacht sails
J514TN Tan
Polyester Sailcloth Tape
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ Roll lengths are 100 metres nominal
¡ Jumbo rolls also available - approx 500m
¡ Available only on full rolls
¡ Colour: White
JUMBO ROLLS
TapesSailcloth Tape
PTFE Tape
¡ Profile PTFE yarns are woven into fabric to reduce friction when used in the manufacture of luff tapes
¡ Cut lengths available on request
¡ Non-fray selvage edge
¡ All rolls are approximately 20m or 100m
5-8oz Classic Polyester Coloured Sailcloth Tape
¡ These tapes are manufactured from Bainbridge polyester sailcloth
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ Available only on full rolls
Dyneema® Slit Tape
¡ 1000 Denier Dyneema® yarns are woven into fabric to reduce friction when used in the manufacture of luff tapes
¡ Dyneema® increases strength and reduces friction
¡ Can be used for batten chafe on full length pockets
¡ Low friction, high strength ideal for additional reinforcing at wear points on groove luff mainsails and One Design sails, i.e cunningham, batten pockets and headboard
¡ All white finish
¡ Non-fray selvage edge
¡ All rolls are approximately 20m or 100m
¡ Exclusive to Bainbridge
6oz Polyester Black Sailcloth Tape
¡ These tapes are manufactured from Bainbridge polyester sailcloth
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ Available only on full rolls
¡ Other colours and widths available on request
4oz Polyester Coloured Sailcloth Tape
¡ These tapes are manufactured from Bainbridge polyester sailcloth
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ All rolls are 100 metres nominal
¡ Available only on full rolls
4oz Folded Polyester Coloured Sailcloth Tape
¡ Bainbridge polyester sailcloth
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ All roll lengths are 100m
¡ Centre folded
Nylon Coloured Spinnaker Tape
¡ Other widths can be supplied - please enquire
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ All rolls are 100 metres nominal
¡ Available only on full rolls
TapesSailcloth Tape
Folded Polyester Tape
¡ These tapes are manufactured from Bainbridge polyester sailcloth
¡ Hot slit to seal the edges
¡ All roll lengths are 100 metres nominal
¡ Centre folded and wound onto spool for ease of use in a Sail Loft
¡ Folded to order
Nylon Repair Tape
¡ Instant repairs when you need it most
¡ Adheres instantly on contact
¡ Conforms to the shape of the sail
¡ Can be used for emergency repair to foul weather gear, seat cushions, boat covers and canvas
¡ Prevents sail chafe
Sail Repair Patches
¡ Heavy duty PSA self adhesive sail repair patches
¡ Miscellaneous sizes suits most small to medium repairs
¡ Radiused edge helps reduce peel
¡ Available in 5 colours
¡ Suitable for all types of sailcloth including laminate, polyester and nylon
¡ Can be used as emergency repairs for sails, foul weather gear, seat cushions and boat covers
¡ Ideal for repairing batten pockets and also as chafing patch
¡ Bainbridge UK manufacture
Circles & Tell Tale Patches
¡ Self adhesive insignia circles for reinforcement, protection or repair
¡ Various colours / sizes available
AQM Tell Tales
¡ Self adhesive oval insignia patch with wool tell tale
¡ Easy application
Bainbridge Services Services
Cutting & Nesting
Bainbridge can plot or cut from your drawings or designs as a ntv or a dxf file and take those and prepare them as cutting files - these are the fully nested instruction sets suitable for plotting and cutting. Our nesting software ensures that material wastage is reduced to the mathematical minimum – the iterative algorithms used are the best available and fully automatic. The choice of how much of the package you wish to use is entirely yours. Our intention is to be an extension of your team allowing increased capacity and providing a dependable service.
See the inside front cover for full details of what materials we can cut.
Design
Using our in-house expertise in design alongside industry leading software covering many aspects of CAD/CAM, Bainbridge can work alongside you to deliver the very best results. Our aim is to allow you to meet your customers’ expectations. We can take concepts, measurements, or drawings on to provide all the advantages of automated design and manufacture.
We can provide design services for:
¡ Sail design – from boat measurements and/or sail measurements
¡ Digitising of templates
¡ Metal fittings, and output suitable for 3D printing
¡ Plastic fittings, and output suitable for 3D printing
We will work closely with you to provide bespoke solutions that best fit your manufacturing needs - Bainbridge delivers a design service that is fast and efficient.
In-house Tensile Testing
All our sailcloth products undergo rigorous testing using our Lloyd Instruments single pillar machine with an annually certified and fully electronic load cell. Further it can apply compressive force to be able to measure a material’s ability to take load in any direction - an example is testing the hardness of plastics or metals. Therefore, the same machine can test materials of many sorts in most products, so if you have a need to test something before using it in manufacture, you only have to ask.
Slitting & Converting Services
Bainbridge specialises in precision slitting and rewinding of a wide range of materials. This includes both roll-to-roll and cut lengths.
We take pride in our ability to work alongside our customers R&D departments in the strictest confidence trialling new and revised materials giving valuable advice on all aspects of the slitting and rewinding process. Our skilled staff have the experience and depth of knowledge to add value to our customers products.
Bainbridge has worked with many types of materials over the years and include but are not limited to:
¡ Wovens – polyester and hybrid sailcloth, nylons, and acrylic cover fabrics
¡ Non-wovens – protective sheeting, and including those for medical purposes and PPE
¡ Films and PVC
¡ Laminates
¡ Advanced flexible materials
Bainbridge has custom-built machinery which includes
Heat Slitting
As well as using conventional cold slitting techniques Bainbridge can heat slit synthetic materials (usually woven) where it is important to seal the cut edges to stop fraying or fibre contamination.
Commercial & Intellectual Property Rights
We fully appreciate that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are very important to your business, and that the type of information that would be supplied to us to offer these services will often be of a sensitive commercial nature and we will be more than happy to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) with you as required. We do this as a matter of course in our normal business so are familiar to being bound by these types of constraints.
a computerised tension control system which ensures that the same parameters are accurately reproduced in subsequent production runs giving the customer absolute confidence in the consistent quality of repeat orders.
Over the years, we have handled on behalf of our customers many different materials and fabrics to input rolls of various widths and weights to output various widths in one single pass operation.
Batch Traceability
Bainbridge also offers full batch traceability together with customised labelling to exact customer specifications using the your own specialised packaging materials as required.
Storage, Distribution & Logistics
From our modern premises on the south coast of England, Bainbridge can offer clean dry storage facilities to our customers for raw materials together with finished goods.
Distribution of our customers products can also be organised to their scheduled instructions for deliveries within the UK, Europe and beyond.
We have a fleet of vans that deliver daily on a local basis and further afield as required.
LENGTH
AREA
Conversions & Glossary
316 Stainless Steel: A grade of stainless steel ideal for the marine environment.
AIRX: Bainbridge’s brand name for a superior range of performance spinnaker nylons.
Bias: A diagonal across a piece of fabric at 45° to the warp and fill.
Carbon: An extreme performance fibre used extensively in composite engineering and the sailcloth market.
Creep: The property of fibres to gradually stretch under a constant load.
Crimp: Length or waviness added to a yarn when it is woven overand-under in a piece of fabric. Crimp can contribute to the elongation of a fabric under load.
Dacron: DuPont’s trade name for polyester fibre.
Denier: Weight of 9000 metres of yarn in grams.
DTex: Weight of 10,000m of yarn in grams.
DIAX: Bainbridge’s brand name for laminates.
Dyneema®: Super strong polyethylene fibre made by DSM, up to 40% stronger than aramid
WEIGHT
FABRIC
GLOSSARY
fibres. Also resistant to UV and moisture.
Elongation: The difference between the length of a stretched sample and its initial length; expressed in 1/100ths of an inch.
Fibre: Strand of material used to spin into a yarn.
Fill: The yarn or fibre running across the width of the fabric at right angles to the warp.
Gsm: Weight in grams of a square metre of cloth.
Kevlar: DuPont’s trade name for a family of high-strength aramid fibres.
Laminate: A layered fabric made by bonding scrims and/or taffetas to one or two plies of film.
Modulus: The measure of stretch or elasticity of a fabric.
High Modulus = low stretch.
MPEX: Bainbridge’s brand name for a range of multi - purpose spinnaker fabrics.
Polyester: A strong, reliable fibre ideal for cruising, racing laminates and woven sailcloth.
Primary Yarn Direction: The orientation (warp or fill) in which a fabric is the most stretch resistant.
Scrim: Non woven, formed sheet of yarns held together with resin.
Spectra: A highly modified polyethylene fibre developed by Allied Corp.
Taffeta: A light woven fabric used on laminates to add durability and abrasion resistance.
Tenacity: The breaking strength of a yarn or fabric stated in force per unit of the cross-sectional area.
Tensile Strength: The ability of a fibre, yarn or fabric to resist breaking under tension.
Technora: Aramid fibres with lower modulus but better flex properties than Twaron®
Thread line: The direction of the yarns.
Titanium: Low density, high strength metal and resistant to corrosion.
Twaron®: Family of aramid fibres made by Akzo.
Vectran®: A liquid crystal polymer (LCP) fibre 10 times stronger than aluminium.
Warp: The yarn or fibre running the length of a fabric.
Sailmakers Ounces (sm oz): Weight of a 36” x 28.5” piece of cloth.
AUSTRALIA
Bainbridge International Pty. Ltd
273 Harbour Road, Brookvale, NSW 2100
T: +61 (0) 2 9938 1788
E: info@bainbridgeint.com.au
W: www.bainbridgeaus.com.au
DENMARK
Columbus Marine
Svejsegangen 3, DK-2690, Karlslunde
T: +45 4619 1166
E: info@columbus-marine.dk
W: www.columbus-marine.dk
FRANCE, SPAIN & NORTH AFRICA
VMG Soromap
Z.A. de Béligon, 17300 Rochefort / Mer, France
T: +33 (0) 5 46 87 84 80
E: contact@vmgsoromap.com
W: www.vmgsoromap.com
GERMANY
Herman Gotthardt GmbH
Leunastrasse 50, D-22761 Hamburg
T: +49 40 85150550
E: info@gotthardt-yacht.de
W: www.gotthardt-yacht.de
GREECE, BULGARIA, ROMANIA & CROATIA
Takis Kokkotas Co. Ltd.
80 Mezonos Str, 104 38, Athens
T: +30 210 52 28 540
E: info@kokkotas.gr
W: www.kokkotas.gr
GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS
Bainbridge International Ltd
8 Flanders Park, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2FZ UK
