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Gestalt said..duzzi said..Gestalt said..ptsf1111 said..
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the beginning of the end for this 3Di construction in windsurfing sails, let's see what happens next.
Lots of carbon fiber cloth options for stitched sails now
Not to mention the stichless Q-bond technology
point-7.com/zero-26/qbondsails/ ... but let's face it: all this can only save grams, not Kgs like North used to claim.
Severne pioneered this stuff, lightweight carbon cloths, glued seems. They've been doing it for multiple years now.. point 7 missed the boat for me.
They really did not Pioneer it. They were just who you saw doing it.
I had my first spectra laminate sail in 1988, around the same time my friend had a mostly stitchless glued sail. My first carbon laminate slalom sail I can't quite remember the year , I think it was about 2002 era, I had a new sonic 100 at the same time, so that year. My standard 4.6 4 batten sail in 1988 was 2.2kg, made from polyester and kevlar scrim laminates. I had a Twaron scrim laminate 8.2m slalom sail that was under 3kg , around 1997. My 7.0 6 batten cammed slalom sail from 1995 in technora scrim laminates was 2.9kg. not sure what year severne started making sails?
So basically scrim laminate tech is more than 40 years old, highly developed and well understood by those who have been using it a long time.
The north stuff is good too, and the membrane and the film less sailcloths in rolled form. They can all be used to make good sails. But 100percent truth is none are clearly dominant over another, it's all about the design implementation. Hell even monofilm can be good, it's just so damn cheap! 10 euro for a sails worth of cloth instead of 100.....
