this is the new Noer stick extension, designed by a French guy. Noer is the French word black, so I guess it's real name is the Black stick.

an additional set of built in pulleys make down hauling easier. Although easy down hauling is not actually its main feature. Regular extensions have 2cm (roughly) increments, but the Noer stick can be set at millimetres for fine tuning. Looks like a clever little bit of design work, basic so should be tough enough. Easy to clean too.

At 300 euros, it's up there with the Northsails XT, expensive. Looks very interesting and great to see new stuff being tried, but I'm not sure if it will tempt the masses away from regular extensions. It would be great to try it out, but I don't think I could get my head around paying 300 euros for one extension, especially as I need three, S, M & L, 900 euros !!!

search FB for Noer Stick for the designer.

It looks to me like the inset pullies allow you to adjust the amount of extension you have or don't and the external ones are used to do your conventional downhaul. What it appears to give you is the ability to adjust the amount of extension without having to undo the downhaul. and pull the extension away from the mast. So it is a time saver.

legless said..
It looks to me like the inset pullies allow you to adjust the amount of extension you have or don't and the external ones are used to do your conventional downhaul. What it appears to give you is the ability to adjust the amount of extension without having to undo the downhaul. and pull the extension away from the mast. So it is a time saver.

Bang on, you explained it 100% better than I did. Micro downhaul tuning made easy I guess :)

windsurfing.tv/video/how-it-works-noerstick/

I remember we had a discussion on here many years ago about precisely that idea.
People even posted little drawings.
I remember Elmo pointed out some fault with the idea but I don't remember what it was.

Ooops, predictive text (ipad) changed it from Noir to Noer :)

Nice concept and looks good , but i see a strength problem . All the weight of the complete rig and rider in harness x banging in chop and landing in harness ( oops ) is hanging on the pulleys and axils , rope and cleat . I wonder how easy it is to undo the cleat after a day of rough sailing ?

uweh said..
rdm too ?

I use cup not euro pin, guess I'm not gonna see it in my kit

All good questions,, and I had more myself.

I speak daily with Finn Noer and have forwarded all the questions to him.

There will be a RDM edition in the pipeline coming soon

For now it is only the Euro pin base system that can be used.