The reviewed record you confirm before production, and the record that follows the sail afterwards. It contains the things you can read and recognise; the production engineering remains our responsibility.
When you receive it
Your first Sail Passport is issued when sailmaker review is complete. Receiving it means the information needed to build the sail has been checked and brought into one readable record.
It is not the end of the Passport. Your confirmation establishes the production version; build, inspection and delivery information are added as the sail moves forward.
What you are confirming
Two things, and nothing else.
That this is your boat. The model, the rig, the hardware you photographed, the modifications you told us about.
That these are your choices. How you sail, the build standard, the cloth, the number of reefs, the appearance, the accessories.
That is the whole of your responsibility. You are not confirming that the engineering is correct, because you have no way of knowing whether it is, and asking you to would be transferring a risk you cannot assess.
What is in it
Your boat — model, rig, and the photographs and hardware you supplied, shown back to you.
Your choices — every decision you made, in the same words the configurator used.
What we checked and what we changed — item by item, with the sailmaker’s name and the date. If a dimension was corrected, it says which one, what it was, what it became and why. If nothing needed changing, it says that.
What the finished sail will be — the main dimensions, where the reefs sit, the batten arrangement, what is at each corner. This is for your information, not your approval. Read it, ask about anything that surprises you, but you are not being asked to validate it.
Price, payment status and delivery window.
What is not in it
Thread specifications, stitch rows, tape widths, patch layers, batten profiles, seam construction, fibre layout, panel dimensions.
All of that exists. It is in the production specification, which is the document our loft cuts and sews from, and you are welcome to see it if you want to. What you are not asked to do is sign it, because it is written for the people making your sail and signing it would imply an approval you are not in a position to give.
This is a deliberate separation. A customer being asked to approve a production drawing is a customer being asked to carry a risk that belongs to the manufacturer.
Reading it properly
Four things worth actually checking, because they are the ones where an error costs you a sail.
Is this your boat? Model, rig version, and particularly any modification. If you changed the mast and it says the original, stop there.
Are the hardware entries what is actually on your boat? This is where a mistake becomes a sail that will not go on.
Are the choices the ones you made? Cloth, reef count, colours, sail number, what is included.
Do the changes make sense to you? If something was corrected and the explanation does not follow, ask. A change you do not understand is a change to question, not to approve.
What is not worth agonising over: dimensions to the millimetre, and anything structural. Those are ours.
Changes after you confirm
Confirming releases the sail to production. From that point material may be allocated and cut, so a later change can affect both timing and cost.
So the moment to raise a doubt is before confirming, not during. If something is unclear, ask rather than confirming and hoping.
After delivery
The same Sail Passport is completed with what actually came out of production: the measured dimensions and weight of the finished sail, its inspection record and the production date.
It then stays with the sail as its permanent record — what it is, what it is made of, what hardware is on it, who checked it and when.
Two reasons that matters. When you next order a sail, the record is already there and the first order’s work is not repeated. When something needs attention — a repair, a service, a warranty question — the sail’s actual specification is on file rather than being reconstructed from memory.
You can add to it. Photographs of wear, a repair that was done locally, a note about how the sail behaves — all of it stays in the file.
In short
You confirm what you can see. We are responsible for what you cannot.
The production specification exists, it is available to you, and signing it is not your job.