philn said..


Wow so beautifull let us know please

How many battens?

John340 said..

Gestalt said..
How many battens?

3.5, the same as the Gen 2

Cool thx. Do you know what's different.

Not much details

-Ps_pajkI

Gestalt said..
Lucas meldrums new vid looks promising.. could be the new board sponsor though.

Looks like the new North Wave only works with the Quatro Pyramid

/s

Well, I've jumped off the deep end and placed an order for 5.2, 6.0 & 6.8 3Di Gen 3 Race sails. ETA in about 6 weeks (coming by slow mail from The Netherlands). I own a quiver and love the 3Di Gen 2 Wave Sails and can wait to try the Race sails.

John340 said..
Well, I've jumped off the deep end and placed an order for 5.2, 6.0 & 6.8 3Di Gen 3 Race sails. ETA in about 6 weeks (coming by slow mail from The Netherlands). I own a quiver and love the 3Di Gen 2 Wave Sails and can wait to try the Race sails.

Sick!!

sheddweller said..
5 years isn't long enough to develop a race sail? PMSL! ??

I think this is a function of the 3d production process as opposed to the traditional sail loft approach. Vincent mentioned something like a 6-month turnaround time for a proto; even if exaggerated a bit, that is clearly of a totally different order of magnitude than what small lofts like... Loft (in Tarifa), P7 (Garda) or Duotone (Maui) can do: build, test, adjust, retest... easily within 24h or less.

also let's not forget the non pwa market is loving the 3di sails. It cannot be denied there is something there. Plus , talk that any mast can be used.. that in itself is significant.

Apparently Goya is the perfect fit.

Gestalt said..

philn said..

also let's not forget the non pwa market is loving the 3di sails. It cannot be denied there is something there. Plus , talk that any mast can be used.. that in itself is significant.

Apparently Goya is the perfect fit.

Also know people using np masts happily. I think John above is using different masts. Maybe john you can chime in??

I want to use my power xt extensions so I'm going to try my Duotone & KA SDM & RDM masts to see if they work. If not, then I'll get the north 430 MDM which fits both the 6.0 and 6.8.

philn said..
Apparently Goya is the perfect fit.

Gestalt said..
Also know people using np masts happily. I think John above is using different masts. Maybe john you can chime in??

Goya is a reasonable fit in 400 and below.
NP does well at 430 and under.

bel29 said..

I think this is a function of the 3d production process as opposed to the traditional sail loft approach. Vincent mentioned something like a 6-month turnaround time for a proto; even if exaggerated a bit, that is clearly of a totally different order of magnitude than what small lofts like... Loft (in Tarifa), P7 (Garda) or Duotone (Maui) can do: build, test, adjust, retest... easily within 24h or less.

a good amount of that is taken up by the curing process.
after a sail is "printed" on the mould, that sail body needs to undergo a lengthy cure time (several weeks), then that sail body needs to go thru another factory process for all the fittings to be installed/ stitched on (batten tensioners, pulley blocks, fairings, luff sleeve, windows, etc.). add another factory process trip if you also want graphics printed.
so yeah, different pace for development/ testing.