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FINN Our sailor development consultant for this sail program is Jean Paul Gaston, who has numerous top ten rankings and wins in the French national championships to his name, a 3rd place at the World masters in Maubuisson 99, and is a former national French class President. A fine tuning specialist, Gaston is also helping develop and market the Pata, a promising new Finn hull from Hungary. The sail designer is Alain Leroux, who has successfully designed America's cup sail, European championship winning keel-boat sails ... and Finn and other dinghy sails... Our sails come in 2 models, for light wind and medium / high. We are developping for each model several different luff curves, to accomodate different sailor weights and mast flexibility. Below is a picture of our first prototype. Not enough luff roach, draft - cloth too heavy - it still won the first regatta it entered, the Jacques Fauroux Challenge in Cannes 08... We have now progressed to a second prototype round which is very close to production-ready - Check it here.... Update: our second series of prototype are winning regattas and attracting lots of attention at race sites - we are currently finishing our pre-production models to validate all our choices and anticipate production sails to be avaible in the summmer.
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