Quadrille, USA 43856, carrying North's Marathon 3DL sails—a full-battened main, reefed down, and a roller-furling jib with UV-protective fabric on leech and foot.

For this second article, we asked all our interview subjects to price out a suit of sails (mainsail and 150-percent furling headsail) for our hypothetical No-Name 35, a 10-year-old, 14,000-pound, single-spreader sloop, which we keep in New England in the summer and take to Florida in the winter. We rarely race the boat, go offshore about four times a year, and often sail in the evenings with the family. We told them that sailshape and performance were important.

We were aware that we were throwing the sailmakers a bit of a curveball with this request. Not all of the requirements dovetailed with the others. Nevertheless, we were interested to see what…