To be fair, Sauvage’s current sail cover has seen a few years and is getting towards the end of its life. Many sailing yachts use the sailing cover system for protecting their sails, and it has proved effective. Our sail cover is simply a length of canvas shaped at one end to account for the bulk of the unfurled sail. You place it over the unfurled sail before securing it with clasps under the boom.
On our first-ever sailing adventure, as we headed back into the marina, we opted to leave the sail cover off our unfurled mainsail. We also chose to leave it untethered – a mistake, we now realise (we never did this again!).
