North Sails 3Di - The How and Why

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2:43 AM Fri 13 Aug 2010 GMT

'3di in action' . Click Here to view large photo

During the lead up to the 32nd Americas Cup, the Swiss Alinghi team hoisted sails on their boat so unique, that it had tongues wagging and people speculating as to just what were those unique, solid black looking sails with no apparent Mylar film. Fast forward to now, and the development of these sails now known as 3Di by North Sails, have been appearing on the water this year in high end racing fleets in the Northern Hemisphere such as TP52's and RC44's, and now into Australian waters. To find out more, we talked to Bill Pearson, in charge of ...

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