Just got my new GTFRC out of the bag and rigged on the lawn.
1st impressions before sailing it
Looks fantastic, build quality is excellent, rotates easily in still air.
I have it rigged on my ancient Killwell Matrix5 1 piece MDM. It;s meant for RDMs, but we changed a couple of camber inducers to fit my strange mast, and it rigs beautifully. Downhaul is to spec but here it's under outhauled about 2cm. Probably because that's how ai want it for deep bearoffs, another 2cm would possibly be better for reaching and upwind.
Won't be sailing it for a little while, I have to let some infected cuts heal first.
Which is a PITA I really want to try this out.
I find I need an easier sail, to conserve energy now. I have high hopes this will let me go further and longer, without loosing any speed.
Looks nice. Is it the 2026 model? Have not seen any info on the latest flat water sails from Patrik.
looks fantastic .on a 5,6 3 cams is heaps and will give a good bottom end .I can see you cracking 40 knots on this Decrepit 
its got speed written all over it .
Let us know how it compares with the Koncepts, my 5.8 is disintegrating and I am looking for a similar replacement
On the ground it looks a bit deeper than the koncepts and the luff sleeve is a little wider.
Just a very first impression in no wind, it may rotate easier, and be slightly easier to rig.
Like the koncepts I can get a usable medium wind downhaul with a puller, for full downhaul I need a winch.
It certainly suits me better than the speeds. there's no way speeds are sailable without winch downhaul.
(bear in mind I'm an ancient light weight, bigger, younger, stronger sailors may manage speeds better.)
Can't wait to try it out and get a feel for it's wind range, I can see it becoming my go to sail.
It's a while since I had a 5,8 koncept, I had a 5.7speed, not as user friendly as the koncepts, are they faster?? Hard to tell but I did get my PB 40 with the 5.2 Speed. 5.0 koncept only got me to 39, but totally different conditions.
Waricle says he's fixed my winch, so I'll have another play with the 5.2 speed today and see if I can get it to rotate with spec downhaul
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Looks nice. Is it the 2026 model? Have not seen any info on the latest flat water sails from Patrik.
No it's the 23. I asked about that, and new shipment is due in later this year, I'll probably pre-order a 5.0.
The nice thing about Patrick, he doesn't change for the sake of change. It seems he's not driven by the marketers, but by common sense.
Change for the sake of change, just makes stuff more expensive, working to deadlines, can lead to shortcuts and backward steps.
Thanks for that. I had read he didn't always update but could not find any news on the frc except the 2023.
Yep, that's current at the moment, I've no idea what the next shipment will be, I'll find out when I get my 5.0
They're great Mike. Luv my set for the past 18mths. Foil great too. I hope that you got the Patrik rdms too
Hi M. Look forward to find out what you think of it on the water. I'm half a mind to buy a 5.6 (plus a 4.2 4WAVE !! 
). What's the specs of your mast ?. Does the sail come with RDM cams only ?, or both types ?
Also, this brand has good tech support. They helped me dial in a 5WAVE. Some sail brands either ignore, or don't put in the mental energy to understand issue.
First time on the water today, not ideal conditions for me, way too choppy when there was wind.
Heaps of power had me trying to calm it down. It will take me a while to get used to it so I won't comment on it until a few more sessions, hopefully in more benign circumstances.
Gybing will be tricky to start with, I'm used to giving a little pump to start the rotate, but this sail will flip as soon as there's wind from the other direction. It doesn't hang about, the power is immediate and fierce.
It will be great for accelerating out of a gybe, as long as you don't get pulled over the front, I'll need to anticipate this and get weight back quickly to control the sudden power up.
The sail seems very tuneable, I had heaps of outhaul and the sail still had plenty of shape, didn't pull the sail away from the mast. So I'll be experimenting with downhaul as well as outhaul.
Detune it a bit until I get more used to it.
My mast is the old Kilwell matrix 5, constant curve and 19 MCS . It's what's now called an MDM.
The original patrick cams are RDM. The top cam with spacers removed was OK. the bottom cam I replaced with a KA 52 and the middle cam with a KA 47
We got our first GT3 ( a 6.8 ) a bit over 3 years ago and added a 6.2 and a 7.4 about 12 months after that. Merena loves the smaller 2 and I enjoyed using the 7.4 the few times I was able to get on the water. We run them on the Patrik 80 % RDM's. What Merena found is she prefers to run them using the bottom outhaul hole ( prefers the feel of the sail using this )and with a bit more than spec outhaul. Downhaul always at least to the reference points on the sail. Would like to try them with 100% RDM as Patrik recommends just to see how noticeable the difference is. Just watching them in use the head of the sail and upper leach looks like it should react better with the 100% RDM. What I found with the 7.4 is when it starts to become overpowered it becomes unstable which I put down to only being a 6 batten sail. Doesn't seem to make as much difference on the smaller sizes.
Decrepit if you can pick up an original Race+ or Race SF in a 5.0 you would like it. They are easy to rig (I used to be able to downhaul Merena's 5.8 by hand) and have big wind range. We run her 5.2 and 5.8 on RDM now and she prefers them with these. The new Race LA while nice to use has too wide a mast sleeve for my liking.
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alvadave: When you say 7.4 becomes unstable when OP, in what way ?
Just that sail turning inside out feeling you get which you don't really get on a full race sail and I'm talking seriously overpowered. Probably could tune it out to certain degree with more outhaul. It just seems like when you get to the 7.4 being only 6 battens the batten spacing starts to get quite large. Don't get me wrong, that is really the only negative thing I have to say about the sail.
