NeilPryde 2009 Sails

So they are different to the brown, grey and black? Great!

What the matter with having a bit of pryde? After getting the right mast my RS6 is great and I really like my older RX2 too.


The race sails still have that dull colour scheme. Mr Pryde must have bought up the world's supply of grey and brown film and is now using it up. Hopefully by the 2010 year they will have run out.

Hi Guys i've just discovered this site after a recommendation by a friend for the arrows wind graphs and have ventured into these forums.
I know this is a forum and all correspondence is allowed, But my first impression is that certain posters have an agenda to slag off brands that do not benefit their standing with Shops /Suppliers.

For example the guy above me with the finger in his nose.

You'll quickly come to realise baldrick that an internet forum is a place of wildly differing opinions and generally a place of free speech so get used to it. Agendas free of charge upon entry :D

is that you brucie?

Thanks for your replies guys and i've windsurfed for a few decades and i'm a bit shocked that a person on a forum with a Avatar of a finger up his nose is taken seriously!

Just that i've been a pryde customer from 1982 as well as heaps of other excursions and i didn't realise there was a problem.

In fact i've seen every sail , mast and boom break and tear in the narrowneck on the Gold Coast shorey with regularity!
even zetas ezzys and any other boutique maui or german rip off.

Sorry if i created contraversy

baldrick - never mind, almost everyone on the goldcoast owns a pryde sail maybe they don't last as long, but at least they get ya planing early

Hey my finger can go other places little ranga

A dude I know told me that NP have 2 sail making factories, one in EU some place and the other in china. Is this fact or a nice dream for the poms to be getting better quality kit than us?
I have been reading multiple sail reviews in the mags of late and they are all consistent with commenting on the high build quality of the NP sails, these are English mags.

The combat sails last forever! This year NP are making a skinny x3 and a skinny x6 along with the x-combat...

if the big german fella can hang his weight on anything without it breaking, its a pretty good testimony for its strength in my book. Personally I find performance of a sail to be most important (provided they dont rip while your rigging them on the beach), the better the performance the more likely you are to get out of any potentially heavy situations. my 2cents
ps everything will break if you put it in a certain situation, no matter what brand, construction, whatever.

wasn't even going to go to the weight issue... my biggest problem these days (no pun intended) seem to be that Pryde is the only company that has gear designed by heavier pro riders for heavier riders. I know no company wants to tell their customers that their are fat, ahm I mean need a little bit of extra power but they should wake up in my opinion.

Just take a look at North, Severne, Simmer etc. ... as far as I can tell none of their team riders are in the 95kg+ league. So given that all wave and cross over sails seem to be signature sails designed with the help of team riders it does make me wonder how well they perform for heavier riders.

EG. I tried a number of wave sails from other companies: Naish etc... none of them seem to have the same performance as my Alphas. (BTW, if any sail company out there is reading this and is interested in proofing me different please send me a few test sails).

RE skinny masts: well, let's just say skinny plus "big boned" rider doesn't seem to mix well either. My experience with skinnys is that at my weight two identical masts (one skinny the other normal RDM) the RDM wins hands down in performance every time. Again if someone out there would like to send me a skinny for testing and proof me different please be my guest.

At the moment the combo of my Alphas combined with the X6 (non skinny) seems to work pretty well performance wise... the proof in the pudding?

Well, in the same conditions I seem to only need a sqm more in sail size than Danny boy here... despite an additional buoyancy of 45 kgs on my part.

RE boom durability, I used to go through 2 to 4 booms a season. Then I found Chinook and was using the same boom for 3 years... because I could find a carbon Chinook in Australia back in 2003 and was offered a pryde X7 instead I went for that to test it out... still have a brand new and two used Chinooks in alu in the garage if anyone is interested... but you aint getting my Pryde X7 carbon!!! actually if you have one of those sitting around and you are willing to sell give me a shout!

yea, rdm (reduced diameter mast). 45ks!?! over my weight, if I had of known you were 120kgs tommy I wouldnt have teased you in the playground, I hope you accept my apologies. I wont point at the beach any more I promise.

Just stop throwing those rocks from the beach and I'll be happy...