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BREATHING,
TRIM-REACTIVE DESIGNS.
Wind vision is performance greater than the sum of the parts the board, the rider and the rig become life-like windsurfing at its best! Loftsails designs are alive, breathing, living, with performance available from the rig in all conditions. Forward sail profile orientation, high skin tension and a soft-twisting, exhausting leech work together to produce life-like rigs that expand performance and wind range.
Living, breathing designs are characterized by trim reactivity:
- Soft trim raises the power center; powering-up the rig in light winds.
- Hard trim lowers the power center; streamlining the rig for strong winds.
IPC +
HARDCORE DURABILITY
IPC – Loftsails simple, effective, exclusive construction technique. At the sail corners, panels are overlapped creating radial extensions into the sail body.
The head and tack corners on all Loftsails designs share this feature. The Pure Lip clew is also includes IPC- the seams that extend into the sail body from under the clew allow the “boomzone” panels to extend under the clew eyelet.
This creates an integrated two-ply that radiates into the sail body.
THE LOFT
METALLIC CAM INTERFACES (MCIS)
With each sail rotation, cam designs without MCIs will experience cam-to-sail contact point degradation.
Loftsails exclusive MCIs work with our Teckam system to eliminate such deterioration to maintain a clean, efficient leading edge for your Blade. To soften rotation, MCI removal is an easy option.
LOFTSAILS QUALITY
Materials
Our materials are 1st quality: we engineer our sails with specialized mast pocket styles, state-of-the-art triaxial and bi-axial laminates, woven polyetsers in varying weights and finishings.
Construction
Loftsails are produced with progressive construction techniques: multiple scrim- adhesive reinforcements, 5-layer glued seams, extruded pvc edge and batten wear guards, molded batten end wear studs details that produce state-of-the- art sails.
Hardware
Loftsails hardware is also exclusive: multi-sectioned batten systems (rods and tubes) with location-specific carbon content, precision-ground profile tapers, stainless 3 and 4 roller pulleys and multiple clew eyelets, individual batten tensioning systems top quality components.
EQUALIZED
Loftsails 2018 batten tensioners- dual side-loops that center & equalize batten tensioner load to the batten/batten pocket/sail body.
ADJUSTABLE OUTHAUL
Adjust the character of your rig.
Expanded wind range made direct The Loftsails Adjustable Outhaul.
Loftsails adjustable outhaul is easy & effective. Compatible with all boom types, included with Loftsails Switchblades adjust the character of your rig immediately and effectively suitable for freeride, freerace, and slalom competitions.
LOFTSAILS TEKCAM2
SYSTEM MAST INTERCHANGEABILITY.
Simple, functional, light, adjustable, durable The Loftsails Reduced and Large Tekcam2s allow both Sdm & Rdm mast compatibility for Racing Blades.
No other brand has it. Our Tekcam2 system expands performance possibilities by allowing riders to choose the mast of their choice sdms are well suited to larger sail sizes, larger riders and flat water, while rdms are well suited to smaller riders, smaller sizes and rough conditions.
Tekcam2s are new, designed with a larger footprint on the mast, longer rollers and larger contact areas above and below the rollers.
EXCLUSIVE BATTEN SYSTEMS
FEEL THE DIFFERENCE
Loftsails builds each Loftsail with specific batten sections and batten tapers to create anoptimized internal structure for all our sails.
Loftsails batten systems are engineered with:
Rods
-3mm used for microbattens
-8.5mm used as battens and front ends for tubed battens
-8.0mm x 12mm rectangular section used for standing battens (like tubes for waves!)
Tubes
-8.5mm i.d., 12mm o.d. two types: 30% carb and 100% carb.
-5.3mm i.d., 8.5mm o.d. 100% carbon
Loftsails rectangular batten section (10mmx7mm rod) is profiled on the wider dimension this forces the rear section to resist flex in its stiffer (standing) orientation. The effect is like tubes (stiff!) and does not suffer fragility in surf.
The Loftsails Pure Lip, 4Wave, Advance and Oxygen designs are equipped at specific locations with our exclusive standing battens.
Loftsails are performance-enhanced in the upper end with our advanced, exclusive battens systems you can feel the difference