Have myself a 4.5 Maui sails legend and 100% carbon Maui sails rdm.

Fell for old mistake of thinking "exact mast for sail" stick to rigging dimensions.

Anyway for the past few months the sail was sluggish and lacked power. On sat was blowing 0-28knts. Decided to spend time playing with batterns and tuning sail. Best 30 mins spent. Should have done this 6 months ago and i may have saved myself a walk of shame on a wave session where the wind was there and I was lacking power.

I added 2cm extra down haul and about 5 cm less outhaul. Increased battern tension. This sail was so well balanced and had awesome power. Felt like a 5.3 at least. Rode out gusts and downright sweet. Anyway felt like a dick after months of twitchy poor sailing.

It was so balanced that I had great a
ir control even jumping one handed hooked in for the first times.

Anyway you can teach an old dog new tricks and now I plan to spend 30 mins on each sail (somethiing I will never much up again) and use a permanent pen on sailbag.

After twenty plus years I was just getting too complaisant and trusting the manufacturer. Silly me.

Jens said...

. . . David Ezzy's comprehensive rigging videos . . .

Agree. They are spot-on. Here are the links he sent me for Wave Panthers.

Outhaul/downhaul:

Batten tension:


A long time ago, one of NP's designers (Barry Spanier) said "It doesn't matter how you rig it, as long as you rig it right". Still true today.