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    Posted: 06 Oct 16 at 10:01am
the Plymouth win or swim has a 3000 with an interesting rig shown in the photos.
It looks like the leach comes into the battern ends at batten.
I wonder if they are using the standard PY or if it is heaps quicker.
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This one?





Cheeky bandit if they are..

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What's a battern?

Edit: Ah a batten!


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That style of leech has been around on windsurfing sails for a while. I suspect it's purely cosmetic like many windsurfing industry 'innovations'. More significant is the huge square head which will promote twist and put a lot of extra area high up in the rig.
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Originally posted by Sam.Spoons

That style of leech has been around on windsurfing sails for a while. I suspect it's purely cosmetic like many windsurfing industry 'innovations'. More significant is the huge square head which will promote twist and put a lot of extra area high up in the rig.

having just bought a 'highly innovative' windsurf sail from Severne, I'm also skeptical about some of the so-say benefits.   it certainly seems a lot less easy to manage than my old Demon 9.5 race sail - but that really was a thing of beauty, and simplicity.  
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No Tom I thought he had a marsh bird shoved up his sail as well
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Interesting Jib can't say I remember that much overlap on my old 3k, I'd love to race that off 1074 at Hythe, that would wind the Merlin crew up.
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Demon Sails rule. Superb design and built to the highest standards with the best materials rather than down to a price. I have a 30 year old 7.5 VG5 that is still serviceable. I'm selling my Raceboard kit but keeping the newer (only 15 year old) VG5 7.5m for lighter wind short board sailing.
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I had my 9.5 on a 120L Futura and it was fine up to about 16 knots of wind.... then it got a little backhanded.   I do wonder whether a quiver of 6.0, 7.5 and 9.5 Demon/Five Oceans is all you actually need for free riding with speed and comfort!!!
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Sean Cox (Demon Design Sails founder) used to reckon the 7.5 VG5 was good for 3-30 knots. Not so sure about that but I've raced in 20+ knots with it and it was fast and controllable if not especially comfortable. Faster than anything else back in the day, especially in the light stuff, only the Reflex could match to for power but I had one for a short while and found it much harder to use than the Demon. Definitely has a much wider usable wind range than most and I rarely changed down, if I did it was really howling. Great sails.

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