All Purpose Saint-Laurent-du-Var

Located at 110 route de la Baronne in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, between Cannes and Nice, the All Purpose Méditerranée sail loft occupies a floor of more than 200 m2 fitted with recent, high performing equipment. It is led by Nicolas Clamer, a sailmaker at Williamson Voiles from 1999 to 2011, who took over the brand created in 1984 and later known as CNV, before joining the All Purpose group in December 2021. Manager, sailmaker and upholsterer, he works alongside Amélie Clamer and Nadine, who handle new sails and repairs.

The loft serves racers and cruising sailors alike, making mainsails, headsails including genoas, solents and jibs, and downwind sails including spinnakers, gennakers and code 0s, along with the repair of existing sails. Within the All Purpose network, manufacturing is entirely French and relies on a well equipped design office: Sailpack for three dimensional design and for modelling the boat, its mast and its rigging, Sailect by Optima to define a sail's operating range, and aerodynamic simulation software that calculates the loads in the rig. Cloths are composed between woven fabrics and parallel or oriented fibre laminates such as Trilam and TPI Trilam Precontrain Isotrope, with polyester, Kevlar, Black Technora, Dyneema and Spectra fibres. The group also equips racing classes from the Mini 650 to the IMOCA 60, including the Class40, the Figaro and boats rated under IRC and Osiris.

Marine upholstery completes the offer, made to measure in the group's French workshops: lazy bags, covers and sleeves, sail bags, sprayhoods, companionway and hatch covers, hull skirts, trampolines, jackstays, anti roll cloths and shade sails. Materials are chosen for the marine environment, with coated Dralon for sprayhoods and supplies from Dickson, Alcantara, Stamskin and Connolly, delivery and fitting included.

The All Purpose network, present on the Channel, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, supports local service and ongoing technical assistance, including at major offshore racing events. The loft provides sail care advice, measurement forms and the Sail Pack viewer, and the group highlights its CSR approach and its Trilam Biotex cloth.