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cammd said..shaggybaxter said..cammd said..
Great review thanks shaggy, very interesting. It seems like a lot of boat for 100k.
I am in the market for new sails and noted your comment about the hydranet, did you like that cloth. I am thinking thats what I want.
Hi Cammd,
The hydranet was awesome. It wasn't cheap, but I wanted something that could handle living flaked on the boom or on the furler, have longevity and still give me performance. Hydranet ticked all of those boxes and proved itself many times. The only thing I did over 5 years was replace the uv protection strip on the headsail.
im hearing some impressive longevity stories about 3di too. That surprised me, I thought 3DI was some exotic race cloth that wouldn't handle normal wear and tear without kid gloves, but from what I'm hearing it is pretty resilient.
Thanks the hydranet is sounding good, 3di still sounds exotic to me, wouldn't mind trying it with a windsurf sail, its probably way to expensive. Can it be repaired with a sewing machine if it suffered damage.
Just out of interest, I came across a video a while back where an industry person dropped mention that a new/ better version of Hydra Net is in the wings. I can't remember what the video was, sorry. Nothing mentioned on Dimension Polyant's website yet either.
edit: I didn't notice this, but maybe this is it:
www.dimension-polyant.com/product/hydra-net-radial-onyx/
