M_Boats: Hi Tom,

Thanks for the compliments. The pictures on the Foley Island web site are not mine, they are of another Venture 23. My pictures are on the Picasaweb link in my signature. A tape drive sail is/was a proprietary name used by one of the major sailmakers to describe a synthetic (plastic) sail whose shape was molded in during the manufacturing process and that used tapes radiating out from the corners along the computer mapped load lines to carry the stresses involved. -- Henry https://picasaweb.google.com/heinzir