Q-Bond
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Q-Bond is a process to join or glue technical textiles together. To most common usage is the joining of sail cloths or sail pannels with the Q-Bond Method to complete sails. Known Q-Bonded sails are to boats in large sail racing championships like Volvo Ocean Race, Americas Cup, Louis Vuitton Cup. Some top-sailmakers states the Q-Bond method to be the strongest known joint in the sailmaking world.
The Q-Bond method is best utilized on membrane- or laminate sail cloth made of polyesterfilms with reinforcement fibres in aramid, carbon or polyester.
The horizontal joints of large headsails (jibs and genuas) and mainsails are often joined with the Q-Bond method. Q-Bonded sails can be made lighter and less stretchy compared to traditionally sewn ones. This is faworable in sail racing. Sailmakers can reduce the production time of a sail while using the Q-Bond Method on cross-cut designed sails and still produce a highly competitive sails.
The Q-Bond method is in the sailmaking community known to be the strongest existing method to join the textile parts of a sail together.
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