Custom Sized Shade Sails
Canadian Made
10-year UV Warranty
Marine-Grade
Custom Shade Sails are tailored to fit your specifications exactly giving you complete control over your design. Available in a range of colours and fabric options, all Custom Shade Sails come with a full hardware kit and Advanced Tensioning System.
- 10-year UV warranty
- Fade & tear-resistant UV stabilized shade fabric
- Double-stitched seams & triple-layered reinforced corners
- Marine-grade 316 stainless steel hardware
- Non-continuously cabled corners
- Tensioning hardware included
- Anchor point hardware sold separately
Free Standard Shipping on orders over $500
Fabric & Colour
Custom Shade Sails are available in several fabric types offering you a large range of colours. Sun safety is one of the most important factors when choosing shade fabric, our fabrics are engineered in Australia and subject to rigorous testing, ensuring up to 95.5% UV Protection. Each fabric is fade and tear-resistant and comes with a 5-15 year UV warranty (depending on fabric type). Made from rot-resistant high-density polyethylene, this fabric is 100% recyclable, lead and phthalate-free and one of the only fabrics on the market to be Oeko-Tex® 100 and Greenguard® certified.
Commercial Light
Manufactured by Gale Pacific
Monofilament & tape construction, perfect for small to medium-sized sails up to around 25ft. For more info see our Fabric Page.
Black
Charcoal
Gun Metal
Steel Grey
Brown
Cedar
Purple
Navy Blue
Aquatic Blue
Turquoise
Sky Blue
Brunswick Green
Bright Green
Rivergum Green
Deep Ochre
Cherry Red
Cayenne
Orange
Yellow
Desert Sand
Natural
White
Commercial Heavy
Manufactured by Monotec
Imported from Australia, the home of tensile shade, Monotec fabric is an industry-leading 100% Monofilament cloth, best suited to larger-span sails over 25ft. For more info see our Fabric Page.
Black
Dark Blue
Charcoal
Purple
Blue
Orange
Candy Red
Pink
Terracotta
Red
Green
Lime Green
Yellow
Sand
Cream
Dual Colour
Manufactured by Gale Pacific
Monofilament & tape construction, suitable for any sized shade sail. For more info see our Fabric Page.
Cobblestone
Goldrush
Savanna
Sunburst
Citrus
Topaz
Chameleon
Amazonia
Maldives
Macaw
Santorini
Capri
Shade Analysis & Design Rendering
Shade analysis plays a vital role in creating the ultimate outdoor space. Making sure you receive shade at the correct time of day is essential to ensuring your comfort and getting the most out of your shade product. Visualization is also an important part of the design process and being able to clearly see what your space will look like once your shade product is installed can help in many ways. Our Shade Analysis and Design Rendering service includes a custom 3d rendering, showing the shade pattern typical for midday in July, 3 to 4 views around your space and adaptations at no extra charge.
Construction
To ensure a shade sail looks and performs at its best, tension needs to be applied correctly. Our Custom Shade Sails are handmade in Canada to the specifications of our patented construction method ensuring maximum longevity and safety.
- Advanced Tensioning System – Sails made with fabric/belt perimeter have issues with longevity and tension, especially after the first year of use. Our ATS system includes a stainless steel cable that runs along the perimeter of your sail ensuring equal tensioning, increased water run-off and zero-stretch, lengthening the life of your sail.
- Triple-Layered Reinforced Corners – Our reinforced corners allow increased levels of tensioning, improving the aesthetic of the sail and its performance in wind and rain.
- Double-Stitched Seams – Poorly constructed seams can lead to fraying and strain on a sail’s perimeter. We double stitch our seams with high-quality UV-stabilised thread ensuring a clean even look throughout the perimeter of your sail.
- Non-Continuously Cabled Corners – A significant upgrade from our standard-sized shade sails, the cable in your custom shade sail is terminated at each corner as opposed to running continuously throughout the perimeter, allowing each side of your shade sail to be tensioned individually.
Hardware
Danish-Made Marine-Grade 316 Stainless Steel
For outdoor products, high-quality hardware is essential for both the aesthetics and the longevity of your sail. All of our hardware is made from marine-grade forged 316 stainless steel imported from Denmark. High load rated, this material is extremely strong and corrosion-resistant ensuring a polished finish for the life of your hardware.
There are two types of hardware
- Attachment Hardware (included) – All custom shade sails come with a complete hardware kit to attach your shade sail to your anchor points. This includes turnbuckles, which are used to tension your Shade Sail properly and allow for easy and efficient adjustment during the season and D-shackles, which attach your turnbuckles to the corners of the sail.
- Anchor Point Hardware (sold separately) – This hardware creates anchor points on your posts and/or structure where you will attach your shade sail to. The anchor point hardware you will need will depend entirely on your space and is therefore sold separately. Anchor point hardware can be viewed here and purchased on the Anchor Point Hardware page in our Custom Shopping Cart.
**Please Note: The hardware shown may differ from what you receive based on the size and design of your shade sail.
Shade Sails Traveller
Inspired by our nautical roots, the Shade Sails Traveller system facilitates an adjustment to the positioning of the corner of your shade sail, allowing you to move the corner and accommodate a wider range of sun positions. As a pulley system, the Traveller can also be used to apply final tensioning to the Shade Sail.
Kit includes
- One main pulley and cleat unit
- Two mini pulleys for the top & the bottom of the track
- 1 stainless steel rope cleat
- 5ft track and screws
- Nylon rope
To order this product with Custom Shade Sails, please select this on the “Attachment Hardware” page when ordering
FAQs & Important Information
Are the sides of a shade sail straight or curved?
The sides of a shade sail are curved to ensure proper tensioning. The amount of the curve (catenary curve) depends on the shape of the shade sail and can be adjusted when ordering a custom shade sail.
A standard catenary curve is 7%; this percentage relates to the distance between attachment points. If—as shown in the diagram below—the distance from A to B is 10 feet, a 7% catenary curve is 8.4 inches (7% of 120 inches). This is the distance—shown in white—from the midpoint between the two attachment points (A & B) to the midpoint in the curve of the shade sail (C).
Curvature is not solely for tensioning purposes, it can be increased (to go around a tree or other obstruction) or decreased in some cases. Our design software automatically optimizes the catenary curve for each design. Please get in contact with our design team for any unique requirements.
Are shade sails waterproof?
Most shade sails are not waterproof unless you are using a waterproof fabric, however, one of the reasons we suggest varying the heights of your posts/attachment points is to encourage water run-off. When your sails are sloped and tightened correctly, the majority of the water will run off to the side of the sail, with only a fine mist making it through the mesh. Heavy rain is not an issue if the sail has a significant slope and is very tight.
If you would like to view our waterproof shade sails you can do so here.
To view a comprehansive list of all of our Frequently Asked Questions, please visit our FAQs page.
Checkout & Shipping
Safe & Secure
We use one of Canada’s most popular and trusted credit card processors, Paypal Payments Pro, for our Payment Gateway. Our site is secured using SSL encryption, ensuring your details are always safe and secure.
An expedited service is available and sails can be produced in as few as two business days. On our Cart Page, our shipping is calculated directly from Canada Post’s API, ensuring you receive multiple options with accurate shipping times.
Free Assistance
If you're in the process of designing your space, we highly advise contacting us first. There are many things to consider before putting your posts in the ground or installing hardware. We've been designing shade structures for the last 20 years and would like to offer our expertise to you, free of charge. There are three ways you can get in contact
- Call us at 1 855-899-8290
- Use our simple online form and upload photos of the area you're trying to shade. This allows us to get the best idea of which solution will work best
- Use the support widget in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen
One of our team will get back to you with a free, no-obligation estimate. We want to help you create the best, most efficient design for your space, speak with one of our experts today.
We speak English, French, & Spanish
A local carpenter easily installed our sails, using the information shared. With these shade sails, our students were able to enjoy this outdoor area in comfort. Thank you, Shade Sails Canada for your professionalism and for providing a product that we plan to use for many years to come!
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Great support through the whole process of designing and ordering and great video tutorials for installation. The product has taken a largely unusable space (due to summer heat) and has transformed it into an enjoyable family space both for at home work and entertainment. Thanks Shade Sails Canada!
Already, we have gotten many compliments.
We will 100% be ordering more from Shade Sail Canada in th...More
We will 100% be ordering more from Shade Sail Canada in the future!
Ordering was relatively easy and Gareth was very helpful during the ordering process. We’ll be sure to recommend your company to others.
Support: Excellent, the team supported ...More
Support: Excellent, the team supported us with the numerous questions and worked with us to ensure that the somewhat odd shapes we had would work.
Assembly: Could use some Popeye's spinach :D... Following the videos made the job easier, but it was very challenging to attached the last anchor point (could have used more muscles). There's a lot of tension!!!
Overall: The sails went up this weekend, as of this moment in time, we couldn't be happier. It is cooler under the shades.