Kiwi Slides are normally sewn to the sail luff or can be laced through eyelets, and are actually stronger than the sail itself. They provide 50% less friction than luff tape when hoisting or lowering a headsail.
By using Kiwi Slides you have a captive luff at all times — the same as with hanked-on sails — which allows you to load or unload one sail while the other is working, if you have a double-groove luff extrusion. For short-handed crew, the captive luff means easy and safe sail-handling for single and twin sails.
Sail conversion is easier and cheaper than luff tape. More than 3,500 sails have been fitted with Kiwi Slides; ask your sailmaker to use them for your next sail conversion instead of luff tape.
