Silver Bullet?

Moth front and center at North's Headquarters

Great start for the North Sail's International Moth program. Our V7 and V8 designs have been used in only three championships to date. In each of these three events only one sailor has used the North Sail for the entire event. However, in each of these events the lone sailor with a North Sail convincingly won the regatta:

2009 Australian Championships- 1st Place Nathan Outteridge (North Sails V7 MH)

2009 US Midwinter Championships- 1st Place Chris Williams (North Sails V7 MH)

2009 Victorian State Championships- 1st Place Rohan Veal (North Sails V8)

This past weekend at the Vic States Rohan raced with the new V8 design. Rob Gough from Tasmania also used a North V8 in the first two races, taking a 1st and a 2nd with the sail before heading back to Tasmania. Both Rohan and Rob were using new Bladerider VRX's which have been immaculately constructed. Rohan was using Bladerider spars and Rob was racing with a CST 353 mast.

These two new V8 sails were having a slight problem keeping the cams rotated, we are looking at a couple different details to solve this problem (Changing battens stiffness, stronger luff sleeve material and revised orientation, batten angles, etc). I am sure both Rob and Rohan would have been even faster with sails that had better cam rotation. Once the sails are 100% we will be starting our first production run of about 50 units.

The first batch of Southern Spars masts and booms have been shipped out. A few of these rigs will be tested in Hawaii as well as the first North Sails V10 design.

Winning equation for everyone to think about: Bladerider + North Sail = Silver Bullet

What's on YOUR mast?