WE MAKE THE BEST KAYAK SAILS ON THE PLANET
Experienced adventurers choose Falcon Sails.
Our soul focus is delivering the best paddle craft sails possible. We bend over backwards to make sure our customers are happy as possible. It is not just about having the highest performing sails, or the best kayak sail hardware ever made. Its about delivering to every customer the best possible experience we can. Great hardware is just part of the formula. We analyze every order for what kayak, canoe, or rowing craft it will be installed on, and then custom create the best kit possible for each order that goes out our door. When the box arrives you will have 100% of the hardware you need for a easy and solid rigging job.
Providing the best we can, never slowed us down from continually advancing and refining what we do.
If you are not happy, return your sail rig for a 100% no questions asked refund.
Custom Sails
Our custom sails are made when ordered and use the colors chosen on our custom sail designer.
Ready-to-Ship Sails
Ready to Ship sails are just what it sounds like! We often have sails finished and ready to ship.
No matter what kayak you have, we have a sail rig that is perfect for you. Sit inside or sit on top kayak, recreational or sea kayak, single person or tandem, fishing kayak, race kayak, long or short, and narrow or wide are ready for a high-performance sail. Falcon Sails work well on canoes and row boats too.
After helping thousands of paddle sailors get started, we have developed sail rigging solutions for every situation. When the box arrives, you will have everything you need for an easy & solid rigging job. No matter what kayak you have, high performance kayak sailing is close at hand.
Why Buy a Falcon Sail
1 Every kayak works with a Falcon Sail – Your favorite kayak is perfect
Your kayak is ready. The ideal kayak for a Falcon Kayak sail is the one you already own & enjoy.
You provide your kayak we provide our high-performance sail with a complete rigging kit and you will be sailing in no time.
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No matter what type of kayak you prefer—be it a touring kayak, fishing kayak, recreational model, or even a tandem or sea kayak—a Falcon Sail is the perfect companion. Short, wide, narrow or long, with a Falcon Sail, you will travel faster, enjoy hands-free sailing, and make the most of your time on the water, no matter which kayak you own. High performance sailing is close at hand.
After having helped thousands of kayakers get into kayak sailing, we have rigging solutions for every situation. Falcon Sails work great on canoes and row style boats as well.
2 Lower your sail in seconds, secure it out of the way in seconds, & raise your sail in seconds
Sailing can be initiated within seconds by simply pulling on a line to raise your mast, and when sailing, it is possible to lower your sail just as quickly to transition to paddle-only kayaking. You can secure your sail to your deck 100% out of the way in just a few more seconds.
When it is time to sail, you are always ready, and if you want paddle-only-kayaking you are always ready. If there is perfect wind for sailing, you will be ready, and if there is too much wind or no wind you are ready. All this comes in a package that weighs just over 3 pounds total in a rig that folds to the size of an umbrella in seconds. You can have the simplicity of regular paddle-only-kayaking and on demand sailing with you always, all in a package that is so light and compact you will hardly know it is with you. Our system is simplistic, reliable, and provides impressive performance.
3 Sail shape optimized for high performance kayak sailing
Falcon provides a high-performance sail shape that has been optimized and proven perfect for kayak sailing over thousands of installations. After years of constant refinement and testing, the Falcon airfoil gives the best kayak sailing performance you will find anywhere.
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Great Kayak Sailing starts with a great airfoil. Even small losses of potential performance quickly add up to a big difference in your ability efficiently sail at maximum speeds and wide angles of attack. Efficiency is a main factor for speed for all angles of attack. One sail may look like a sail but if it lacks an optimized airfoil shape and structure, it will fall behind and downwind of the superior sail shape. The difference between an optimized sail and one that only looks like a sail, add up to a significant difference in your sailing experience. Our refined airfoil shape allows you to take wind from wide angles of attack and convert it into forward propulsion. This gives you the ability to sail efficiently at surprising up-wind angles of attack. A sail with more potential angles of attack, sail better on all angles of attack. We use top of the line made in Germany sailcloth by Dimension Polyant to maximize our sail shapes potential. This is the best sail cloth you will find on the planet. This cloth will last as long or longer than your kayak and allow you to take full advantage of our efficient sail airfoil shape. You can sail across a lake and return upwind of your starting point. That is with zero paddling and a 100% stock kayak hull. All that is necessary is a compact Falcon Sail with complete rigging kit that weighs just over 3 pounds total and folds to about the size of an umbrella in seconds. No lee board or other kind of lateral resistance enhancer is necessary.
A great sail shape is the heart of our performance. But a great airfoil and great cloth is just part of the performance formula. To take advantage of a great sail shape, you need to have a strong and reliable rig to present it to the wind properly. Our solid rig is the foundation necessary to take advantage of a high-performance sail. Our great airfoil with our strong and reliable rig combine to make a proper sail package with maximum performance. When it all comes together it is very impressive.
4 Strong carbon fiber mast & boom for maximum performance
It is hard to understate the importance of a solid and reliable sail rig. A great airfoil can only live up to its potential if held for a great presentation to wind. Our carbon fiber mast is amazingly strong. It will not flex or bend and it will not break without literally taking a hammer to it. Even with a hammer it is hard to break. Our carbon will provide a lifetime of high-performance sailing.
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After having helped thousands of kayakers convert their kayaks into high performance sailing craft, we learned how to make rigs that are proven strong and reliable and how to help our customers. Our high-quality carbon fiber spars are part of the formula.
Strength, durability, compactness, and low weight are the main characteristics that make our carbon fiber masts and boom so effective. High performance carbon is one of the tools we use to keep our total weight to a minimum. We do not just make our rigs light weight. A 1-dimensional focus on weight may lead to minimal weights, but will have to fall short strength, reliability, and convenience. We could make our rigs even lighter, but we balance our weight goal with our strength and durability requirements. A great sail rig requires a smart compromise to maximize all goals. Our mast and boom wall thickness, carbon to resin ratio, type of weave, fiber orientation, reinforcement areas, fiber modulus, resin chemistry, and other choices are critical for the best possible balance of the possibilities. We make our masts and boom out of 5 separate sections for easy transport, shipping, and storage. Even though our mast is 72 inches tall, you can store it as compactly as a typical backpacking tent. Our mast and boom are easy to ship and easy store inside your kayak or canoe and can be brought on an airplane as an easy carry on.
Our focus on durability and strength allows us to offer part replacement for all parts on your Falcon Sail rig for as long as you own your Falcon Sail. If something breaks, let us know and we will replace it.
Using the best materials is one of the reasons our complete rigging kit weighs in at just over 3 pounds. Even with this light weight, our sail package is amazingly strong and durable. Total weight and weight aloft are both factors in performance and convenience. Cutting weight means nothing if it involves a poorly balanced compromise. If your rig is not strong and always reliable it may be better if it were reliable even if it weighs 5x more. Even with our requirement of strength and reliability, or complete sail packages weight in at just over 3 pounds total. You want the lightest and most compact sail rig possible that takes wind from maximum angles of attack and efficiently converts it into forward propulsion and always be reliable. A solid mast that will not flex or worse yet bend or break underload is a major part of our high-performance formula. This is why Falcon Kayak Sails are the top choice for major expeditions and adventures.
5 Critical & Unique patented design features
Our sail and rigging designs are built with obsession to make the best compact sail rig possible.
Our obsession for quality, reliability, simplicity, and performance is baked into every fiber of our kayak sail rigs. We did not follow the old way of doing things. When we started creating Falcon Sails, we knew there were many opportunities to increase the kayak sailing performance. We continuously look for and experiment with new ideas. When ready we carefully implement upgrades to our kits. We do not ignore new ideas. We implement refinements when they are proven worthy and reliable. This obsession led to numerous out of the box performance enhancing ideas and even 4 great patented features that are part of every one of our rigs.
Even though some of our features are worthy of utility patents, the main element that makes our rigs so good is our obsession to always be the best we can be.
When you look at our sails and rigging you will recognize the quality. When you kayak sail with your Facon Sail you will feel it.
6 Complete rigging kits includes everything you need for an easy and solid rigging job
Falcon rigging kits include 100% of the hardware you need for an easy and solid rigging job. When the box arrives, you will have all the hardware necessary to finish a solid rigging job. You only need basic tools. There is no faster way to get on the water and experience high performance kayak sailing. Having a 100% complete custom rigging kit designed for your kayak is the best place to start your kayak sailing adventure.
At the end of your order process our system will ask you what kayak you plan to rig your sail on. If we do not have all the information we need (to know exactly what kayak you will rig your sail on), we will contact you. So, you do not have to know this information to place your order. You can place an order to get things started and follow up with letting us know what kayak you plan to install it on. You can also wait for us to contact you. We will let you know if we are missing any important information about your order.
We will make the best complete rigging kit we can with our kayak sail expertise and parts inventory. Our core standard rigging kit is more complete than any kayak sail rigging kit you will find. We do not stop there. We take our core rigging kit even further for every customer. We will analyze your exact kayak design for its unique needs. Every kayak design is a little different. Every Falcon Sail rigging kit parts list for every order is custom created for the exact kayak it is intended for.
Our kits are 100% complete. Our years of experience, obsession and extensive parts inventory lead to kits that are as complete as we can possibly make them.
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When we have an idea for improving our rigging kit we take action. That has led to our core standard rigging kit being amazingly complete. That is not where our complete kit goal ends. Since every kayak is different, we analyze every kayak a customer will rig a one of our sails on, to make the best possible rigging kit for that kayak. Every kayak we have made a kit for has been expertly analyzed with that goal in mind.
More than likely we have already collected information and analyzed your kayak long before you place an order. If your exact kayak has not been analyzed in detail for making an optimized kit, our kayak sail experts will collect all the information necessary to do a thorough and complete analysis to create the perfect rigging kit parts list for your kayak.
Our rigging kits include custom adapters to perfectly match your kayak’s deck and under deck shapes. Our complete rigging kits always have optimized parts for kayak sailing. This includes a sail, carbon fiber mast with universal joint base, carbon fiber boom, super low stretch line (for all standing lines, and all control lines), cleats, properly sized fasteners ( stainless bolts, nuts, washers, and easy to set trifold wide grip range rivets), deck stiffeners, deck and under deck adapters, reinforcement patches, pulley, sail tie down kits, pad eyes, fairleads, deck support strut, detailed instructions, layout templates, high quality Cordura storage bag, deck plate, under deck plate, and all the personal support you need. Every kit is 100% complete with every single part being expertly chosen to be ideal for kayak sailing, ensuring it is expedition worthy so it will last the lifetime of your kayak and even the life of your next kayak.
We are so confident in our hardware we provide a lifetime guarantee that every part will last as long as you own your sail and rig.
We will use our extensive experience and great inventory of parts on every kit we send out the door. When the box arrives all, you will need are basic tools. If you need any support, we will be just a phone call or email away and will be ready to give you the best support we can.
Our goal is to as quickly as possible send you complete rigging kit that requires zero additional parts. That way you can get on the water and focus on having a great experience, not cycles of learning what is missing, research, purchases, waiting for additional shipments, evaluation and experimentation. If you ever have a problem, more than likely 1 phone call or 1 email later, we will have a solution or anything you may need in the mail that day. But you do not have to be concerned about that, because with our experience and system, it is rare you will ever need anything beyond what we send in the first shipment. We guarantee you will be impressed.
7 High quality reliable marine hardware
Every piece of hardware that goes into our rigging kits has been meticulously chosen for performance, simplicity, compactness, minimal weight and reliability. One would think all you need is a great airfoil, optimized carbon spars and great patented features to have the best possible kayak sail rig. Maximum performance comes from maximum efficiency which requires everything to be solid & reliable. Superior hardware will minimize weight, bulk, complexity and will increase strength and reliability.
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Our obsession has led to days, weeks and even months of research, testing, discussion, and refinement on every single part in our rigging kits. Combined these refinements add up.
If a customer has a problem, our first order of business is to make sure our customer is taken care of as fast as possible. You are our boss. We do not just sell hardware. We are selling an experience and the system that makes that experience possible.
Once we know we have done everything we can to take care of a customer, we take the experience as a lesson to refine what we do and how we do it. Obsessing over customer service is one of our main knowledge-generating assets. We make sure we understand exactly what happened and how we can eliminate the problem from happening again. Then we take advantage of what we have learned to further refine our kit and process. We go back to the drawing board on a continual basis. Repeating this cycle over 15 years has led to a sail rig that you will be very impressed by.
8 Easy to use high performance
Experts and beginners are looking for the same thing. They want an easy-to-use sail rig that provides the best performance and highest reliability in the lightest and most compact package. When you raise a Falcon Sail, no matter what your level of experience you will be impressed. You will feel acceleration that leaves other sails down wind of and well behind of your Falcon Sail. You will attain the most aggressive angles of attack to the wind and most steady assuring ride possible. You will be sailing with a well thought-out and refined airfoil and rigging kit.
This performance is what leads to our customers using our sails for many years. We have many customers going back to our earliest builds still sailing on a regular basis. And now our sail rigs are even better.
9 Easy sail size change in just over 1 minute
Every sail has its sweet spot wind range. No matter what size sail you choose, you will find days, it is right in its wind range sweet spot. On occasion you may like a larger sail or a smaller sail. With the modular design concept we always follow, you can change from one size sail to another size of sail, in less than 2 minutes. You are never locked into one sail-size. Once you own a Falcon Sail with a complete rigging kit, you can order a sail only (sail without any of the rigging) any time, and have another size of sails to choose from, or even order a 3 size of sail to choose from.
If you want to add a sail only to your inventory, it only costs a fraction of ordering a sail with a complete rigging kit. You can carry all your sails with you and change sail sizes any time you like. It does not matter what size of sail you have. It will find its sweet spot wind range on occasion, and on occasion, you will prefer a larger or smaller size of sail. With a Falcon Sail you have the flexibility to quickly change to the best sail size.
Start out with 1 size sail with a complete rigging kit and enjoy learning how to sail. If you like, you can then buy just a sail in another size to use with your Falcon Rig. Most people start with a 1.1 square meter sail and learn the basics with that. Some people add another size of sail to their inventory and some people are happy to sail thousands of miles and never even consider making a sail size change.
10 The total package weighs less than 3.5 pounds total
We talk about weight and compactness all the time because it is so important. Squeezing maximum efficiency out of the lightest and most compact kit that is still solid and reliable is our obsession. 15 years of refinement later, our kayak sail rigs deliver performance and reliability for under 3.5 pounds. It can be folded to the size of an umbrella and secured on your deck 100% out of the way in seconds, or quickly disassembled for easy mailing and carrying.
11 Use 1 Falcon Sail on all your kayaks, canoes, and rowing craft
You do not have to decide what kayak to install your Falcon Sail on. Far better than having to decide which kayak you will install your sail on, you can rig all your kayaks and canoes to accept your Falcon Sail.
Once a kayak is rigged for your sail, you can move it from one kayak and rig it on the other kayak in about 2 minutes. No matter which one of your boats you take out, you can quickly move your Falcon Sail propulsion to the kayak you are taking out. One sail can be used on all your kayaks. The only limitation is you can only put it on 1 kayak at a time.
Just install basic deck hardware on each kayak you want to sail, and you are ready to go. Remove your sail from one kayak in about 1 minute and attach it to another kayak in about 1 minute.
This is not where the modularity of the Falcon Sail design ends. You can also change from one size of sail to another size of sail in less than 2 minutes as well. If you have 2 Falcon Sail rigs you and a friend can choose which boat to rig each sail on and go. All parts are interchangeable.
12 US Based phone, email, and video support
Our printed instructions are complete and thorough. Our installation instruction videos are complete and thorough. Our kits include layout templates and instructions on where to install all the parts. If that is not enough, you can pick up the phone and talk with us or email us too of course. We usually know the answer to your question before you are even done asking your question. We have solutions and we will follow up immediately.
13 Custom design your own color pattern
Our main focuses are performance, ease of use, reliability, compactness, light weight and thoroughly complete kits. If we have a chance to wow our customers and deliver even more we do it.
That is why we created our custom sail designer that allows you to pick from 12 super high-quality sail cloth colors to choose from for every part of our sail. We have literally searched the planet for the best proper sail cloth. We choose our sail cloth based on consistent qualities for sailing such as stiffness, strength, weight, finish, and steady great colors. All these amazing clothes are available to you with a click of your mouse.
We allow and encourage our customers to custom design their own sails. You choose your custom color pattern, and we make it for you. Our panels are precut and ready to go so turn around time is fast. We ship most custom sails in less than 2 weeks. If that is not fast enough for you, we usually have stock sails ready to ship. If you need it fast and your heart is set on some special colors, let us know and we will let you know if we can expedite making your sail. On occasion, we will ship a custom sail as fast as the same day. Let us know if that is your goal, and we will let you know what we ca do.
If you have custom sail colors, when your friends spot you from miles away, they will know it is you. There are nearly 3 million possible color combinations, so you can be unique or as bright or subtle as you like.
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14 Lifetime hardware replacement guarantee plus 60 day satisfaction money back guarantee
We are so confident our rigs will last a lifetime we will replace any hardware that breaks as long as you own your sail. In addition to that we also offer a 60-day money back satisfaction guarantee. That is 60 days from the day your sail package arrives at your location.
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Our sail and rigging hardware are expedition-worthy, which means it will last. Being expedition worthy makes giving this lifetime replacement of parts guarantee easy to do. You will appreciate your Falcon Sail reliability. In the very unlikely event a part breaks, let us know and we will arrange for a as fast as possible replacement or upgrade.
Years of taking responsibility for all hardware problems and encouraging our customers to call us if something ever breaks has allowed us to nearly eradicate broken hardware. Quality takes years of hard work and constantly going back to the drawing board. Having this focus on reliability is part of what makes our compact sail rigs the best you will ever find. The quality and performance of our hardware makes it easy to give a 60 day money back satisfaction guarantee and a lifetime replacement part guarantee.
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A Falcon Sail with complete rigging kit weighs in at under 3.5 pounds total, yet is capable of pushing your kayak to is maximum hull speed. With a light to moderate wind, a casual paddler with a Falcon Sail will outperform even the most fit paddle-only kayakers.
Our solid carbon fiber mast and boom, precision machined parts, high quality lines, cleats, fasteners, and stainless steel deck hardware provide amazing and reliable results. Our efficient up-wind capable air foil shape with top quality sail cloth and reliable rig makes it easy to sail across the wind and even make up-wind progress
