Windsurf Sails

Windsurf Sails

The sail is what makes our way of surfing unique. Along with the windsurf board, the sail has the biggest influence on the fun of surfing.

While many surfers can get by with one or two boards, you need a well-tuned range of sails for maximum water time.

The requirements can differ depending on the area of use and spot, but the number of fellow surfers can also influence the perfect sail quiver.

In our long shop history, we have gathered experience from various constellations and are happy to pass this on to you in individual consultations.

This way, ambitious locals, couples traveling together, or entire surfing families can get maximum water time without having to buy every sail twice.

When surfers talk about sail design, they don't always mean the bright colors, but usually the cut of a sail. This is often optimized for beginners, freeriding, racing, freestyling, or waves.

Unlike boards, a windsurf sail is not so rigidly fixed to one category.

A wave sail can certainly be ridden by a beginner, and a beginner's sail is not necessarily too shy for a 360. Some sails, however, are so specialized,

that surfing with them is no fun except for the corresponding target group. Therefore, we have created an overview of the different windsurf sails for you.

Beginner sails and freeride sails are usually sails that are easy to rig without having to adjust the luff tension to the wind strength with millimeter precision.

On the water, they provide constant propulsion and carry you as passively as possible over the planing threshold. In a speed duel with a colleague, they sometimes perform better than a badly trimmed race sail.

Race sails often have two or more so-called cambers. Cambers ensure that the sail battens form a strong profile even without wind pressure. This allows a camber sail to provide enormous propulsion even with very little wind.

At the same time, with a camber sail, you can still fly across the water at light speed, while your colleagues have long since had to rig smaller sails, as their freeride sails no longer generate a stable profile in too much wind. In maneuvers, camber sails require a lot of experience to avoid ending up in the water, and when shifting after a jibe, you should be able to grip with a strong hand. Occasional surfers are also quickly overwhelmed by the pure power of a camber sail.

Those who don't need to squeeze out every last knot of speed when surfing will find alternatives in the freeride sector that do not significantly lag behind camber sails in terms of speed.

Freestyle sails are specialists that are barely recognized by a scale and feel like a breath of nothing in your hand. They are completely geared towards modern freestyle maneuvers.

When neutrally positioned, the power of the sail is completely disengaged, the very short boom length allows radical submerged maneuvers. Those who are not at home in freestyle,

will find the sails difficult to handle. Surfers who like to hit the sail window with the harness hook should have plenty of rolls of monofilm tape ready. This is where those who know exactly what they need will grab.

Wave sails are almost without exception robustly built to survive a washing in the wave. Nevertheless, even here, thanks to the use of modern materials, there are no heavy sails.

Many sails are not only suitable for Hawaii, but also for Heiligenhafen or Wulfener Hals in strong winds. The brands now often have three or more wave sails in their range,

which have completely different areas of application. Freemove sails offer exactly the mix that most surfers are looking for. They perform well in speed duels in large sizes,

elegantly pull you through a duck jibe in medium sizes and, when it's pumping, catapult you to the second floor in Altenteil. Those who do not want to commit to one discipline and still do not want to build up too colorful a sail quiver can strike here.