Membrane,Tape and String Sails

Aeronaut has been involved with the manufacture of membrane or string sails for almost 30 years. This type of sailmaking has transformed making sails from a cottage industry little changed since Nelson to an industrial process with a race proven product seen on the water all over the world. 

One of the first machines made by Aeronaut was a 5 metre stringer. Within a few years, Aeronaut had developed a 10.5 metre wide carbon gantry stringer which was working on sails from Finn dinghies to superyachts. Aeronaut developed the first commercially available software specifically for working with string sails and set the open-standard file formats used in most sail design software today.

It's fair to say that Aeronaut has more stringers working in independent lofts worldwide than any other manufacturer. Current products include 12 metre wide-span stringers working in tandem on floors over 50 metres long as well as heavy duty laminators.

Stringers and laminators are custom designed for individual customers to suit their work with different classes and sizes of yacht and their ideas on fibres, glue and lamination. The future for membrane sails seems bright with interesting developments in tape-laid sails, natural fibres and human friendly glues. 

If you have some interesting ideas that you want brought to life, contact sales at Aeronaut Automation. With our design expertise, in-house manufacturing facilities and sailmaking background, we're the people to talk to.

Software, Nesting and Technology

Nesting & Control

Aeronaut's Tangent software is the key to reducing fabric waste and Tangent's powerful and user friendly cutter control is essential to increase production. 

Autonesting

Fast and efficient autonesting can pay for a cutting system in months if your fabric is expensive - and isn't waste fabric the most expensive fabric in your business? 

Rapid Patterning

Aeronaut has developed rapid patterning software and CAD plugins to reduce the design to cut time down to a few minutes on complex patterns.

Autotracing Patterns

Aeronaut's revolutionary SiliconEye machine vision software can accurately trace and digitise a table full of patterns in seconds.

Aligning Patterns

With Aeronaut's full-table or gantry mounted machine vision systems, aligning cut profiles to patterned fabric or digitally printed material is simple.

Inkjet Printing

Inkjet printing is the fastest way to do pattern numbers, markings and reference text on almost any fabric.

Contact Aeronaut

Get the facts from the factory direct. If you want advice on automated cutting, an offer on a complete cutting system or to arrange a demonstration, just ask!