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[quote=wildtsail]Performance Sails are currently manufacturer supplied and race legal sails on the Nacra Inter 20.  EP's are grandfathered in but have not supplied sails in years.
Performance Sails are owned by Nacra and are some of the fastest sails in the world (won the last two F18 worlds!), and are reasonably priced.  We can build for aluminum or carbon I20 masts.
You're in Michigan, we can ship you some from Illinois from Nacra North America.  Drop me a note, Todd@NacraSailing.com  (don't worry Damon, your on my list :)

I know SLO makes a good product... but bigger and powered up is much less efficient than the current designs the top sail makers are using (Performance, Glaser, etc.)

Wolfman, Mylar is the film on the outside, Pentex is the fiber inside.  The newer mylar laminates have come a long way from what you think of as Mylar. In reality, Pentex is terrible. It breaks down easily and is only a slight cost savings for VERY minor performance over polyester laminate.  In a perfect world we'd all sail with Polyester Laminate or Carbon laminate and nothing in between because it would be hard to create value and performance in a mid level fiber.  Ask a top sailor that knows about cloth, sailmaker, and sailcloth manufacturers, they will agree. This has been a big sore point in the F18 class because the 2-5% improved stretch of Pentex but how do you phase it out? Heck if the sailcloth manufacturers could stop making pentex they'd be thrilled, most have already tried including the company I used to work for.[/quote]

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