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 Milanes Foils have been manufacturing centreboards and rudders since 1975, helping dinghy sailors achieve top results in Olympic and National classes.Our foils have, for example, won Olympic silver (Finn and FD) and Gold (Finn) as well as World Championships in 420, 505, Contender, OK, Enterprise, Cadet, to name but a few, classes. We have also achieved National Championship wins in over 20 other well known Dinghy and keelboat Classes. We also manufacture and supply rudderstocks in various materials, including wood, foam, glass, and carbon.We have templates for most of the National and International classes and within specific rule limitations we endeavour to produce the most efficient shaped foils taking into account minimum drag and maximum lift characteristics.  We are happy to discuss customers particular requirements—weight of helmsman/crew, sail design (an important linking factor) and where appropriate, NACA sections required. Of course we do have our own ideas borne of a fair amount experience but ultimately we aim to produce a foil that will help you, the customer, find that extra edge.Dependant on the specification of the foil we choose wood cores from a variety of species: Yellow and Western Cedar, Columbian Pine, Ash and Balsa or a combination of these to achieve the required flex/weight ratio and then where allowed use re-inforcement materials bonded with epoxy resins. Such materials include glassfibre or Carbon rovings in twill, Bi-axial, or Uni- directional weaves. We finish the foils by successive stages of sanding up to 2000grit, and finally with the use of polishing compounds achieve a fair and very highly polished finish. Most of our foils are clear finished but where a white finish is required we use 2 pack PU. A budget range of foils is also available for which Columbian-pine /Western cedar cores are used and these are epoxy coated and taken to 600 grit before final polishing. All foils are supplied with hardwearing tips. Please use the contact details above for our latest prices and offers.  |
Results
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