With the Warp F2009 Kai Hopf introduces a revolutionary way of putting profile into the sail. We call this the INDEPENDENT.SHAPING.CONCEPT. Instead of having one shape for the whole sail (body and sleeve) Kai now works with 2 separate (independent) shapings for the sail body and the sleeve. Even though this means twice the design time/effort for Kai the advantages of this shaping concept are a break-through in sail design as it enables Kai to also create different tensions of these 2 parts of the sail: 1. The sail body tension is still pretty high plus oriented towards the internal leading edge. Through the leading edge oriented sail body shaping the Warp F2009 rotates even better than its predecessor plus we could also improve the high end control again. 2. The independent shaping enables us to use much lower tension for the mast sleeve area. This makes the Warp F2009 much more dynamic, especially when accelerating (at the start or after jibing) or going through lulls (since it needs less wind pressure now to develop forward motion). This also makes the new Warp a lot less physical to sail.
Great sail, very good handling for a race sail.
It's a race sail so it is heavier dan a freeride.
Great looks. Easy to rig. Needs only a 460 mast.
Cambers rotate perfect, you hardly notice them shifting.
I luckely did not pay the full price!
