New 2012 Naish Chopper wave sail

Robby is going to be able to do his spako polevaults off flat water with this thing!...

I'm totally fine with the new scale, it's emphasising the fact that this sail is not to be directly compared to standard sails which may have the same square metres, which is what people will do..

The M is bigger than the S, and they are both smaller than the L.. That's all you need to know, I'm sure the idea is you buy the whole quiver..

If your quiver is a mix of random brand sails, say a 4.2 Zone, 4.7 swat, and 5.3 Boxer and you try replace one sail with the Chopper, then you're already confused, regardless of the sizing..


Of course, like all the crazy Naish 'innovations', nobody will buy them, and in ten years it will turn out they were right all along..

I will have a L and a M, 2 sail quiver with one mast.

+1, The reason naish claim the top end is good, is because you've got much less sail area.

In simple terms, if you have the M (medium)- what you would use in equivalent 4.7 conditions, there is only 4.2m2 of sail to be overpowered with.

Some may perceive the sail to have poor top end, and for a 4.2 they do, but they're not meant to be used as a normal 4.2, they're meant to be used a 4.7, so what thet're saying is, is that the M has good top end when you think of it as the equivalent to a 4.7.
It'd just be like Gaastra saying that their 4.7 manics will work right down to 4.2 conditions.

Likewise, they never actually claim the M sail has good bottom for a 4.7 equivalent, just that the sails 0.5m2 smaller than what an equivalent normal sail would be.

As for those saying a the range needs to be expanded upwards, most sailors weighing less than 85kg wouldn't ever use bigger than a normal 5.7 anyway. It is a lightweights sails.

Finally, to draw a comparison, when the naish boxer was brought out people were having the same sort of reactions as they are now, but look at how many people have 4 battern wave sails now. (The Fly was only made because Neilpryde had needed to make a sail like the boxer to win kauli over + they had to make a sail to compete with it)

Mark, I don't get why you keep coming back to XL being a 5.3. All the information on the sail so far says that the XL is used in conditions that would normally require a 5.7.

I will agree that the top end comments still need to be tested. But for me that is not what grabs my attention about this range. I am far more interested in the simplicity of it all.

july/aug I have been told.

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I agree, I'd like to try one and see for myself, I have nothing against Naish sails, my most favourite sail was a 2008 5.3 Naish Force

Agreed 2008 was a fine vintage..... Still got mine