the new North Nerd

The greatest innovation is surely the internet forum.

Not the introduction of the forum itself but the use of it.

Where else could a simple question of 'what is this sail, and is it called a 'nerd', be answered with both a xenophobic critic of the european fashion trends of the 1980s and a summary of the history of armid plastic technology.

I say 'all hail Laurie' creator of the modern universe and the world as we know it.

Funniest read in ages, thanks to all, you made my day

I'm waiting for ben to come back after Mr demon claims he invented using technora cloths

OMG you are so Cornish! I could tell from the reply that was you Matt! Good to see you are still building sails! There is no doubt the Demon race sails from the 90's killed it in the UK, but the S1 is amazing!

Hope you are still rocking out in the SW!

hello Tom! long time!!! hope you are well and yes i guess i am just a little bit Cornish...... but kinda hard to drag myself away from it....


and Barn, yes Demon Design has long been well known for Longboard sails, we do build very good ones.
Interestingly there is a lot of cross fertilisation between wave sails and longboard sails. Our first VG5 designs ( a sail which dominated longboard racing in the uk for a good long while in the 90's) were inspired by a wave sail design that we did for Rachel Medd, who was a Div 1 world champion and went on to be a pwa( or whatever it was called then) wave sailor.

and it works the other way to, the 3 batten wave sail in the pictures above is actually a derivative of the Demon Design VG7 longboard sail ( which has won the uk racing 2 years running). The 3 batten sail was a trial to see if we could get the same load paths working in a relatively lower aspect manouvre oriented sail, and it seems to be working.

as to why you havnt heard of us, small company, work to full capacity, dont advertise, always sold on word of mouth, too busy making sails to do advertising, that kind of thing i guess?

Anyway, we do wave sails under a different branding now, lots of pics of the sails in use in Cornwall on the blog, worth a look if anything in Europe is.....:-) 5-oceans.blogspot.com/


and to keep it on topic, my friend has a north "HERD" least thats what he calls it!

^^^What about the Lazor Zap

Don't know why this never took off

^^^Mid 80's Cheyne Horan surf board. Blamed for him not winning world title. Though i could see it having a renaissance in that area for some reason

Having grown up in the UK, I always wondered who made those raceboard sails. Now I know!

There would be loads of sail/board brands from SW/S England (well at least there were) that you'll never have heard of here but were making great products. Vit-Sea, K-Bay (were they the guys that proved how strong their boards were by hitting them with a hammer?), Lodey all come to mind. I also had a "tour" of the factory down in Penzance that made boards - no idea of the name. Don't quote me on any of the above, we're talking 10+ years ago, so spelling may be a little out!

Those wavesails almost look superimposed - I like them!