05/06/2010
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| North Sails carried out sail trials in March to put some new 3di sails through their paces. Specifically, North’s sail designers and engineers wanted to look at the shape-holding ability of the sails over time, so the logical choice for this was VSPARS. |
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They needed the ability to install a full system on the boat within 3 hours and then to carry out accurate sail shape detection on all sails – VSPARS delivered this. The designers were then able to compare the sail shapes over a number of days of sailing, and also look at the effects of trim changes on sail shape in detail. |
| Mickey Ickert, respected worldwide as one of the most innovative America's Cup sail designers, summed up the results...... “this was a good check of not only the static shape but the dynamic behaviour which was important with a new structure.” |
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