J/24 Newport Designs

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NEWPORT FAT HEAD MAINSAIL -- #1 2009 North Americans! The Newport Fat Head Mainsail is a refined version of the main sail developed by Ken and Brad Read - the sail that was the first of the short leech, minimum luff curve mainsails in the class. The shorter leach moves the girth measurements up which adds area to the roach of the sail. This in turn gives the sailplan more power in the back inducing weather helm in light air. We have refined this legendary sail renamed it the Fat Head. This sail now has even more sail area between the headboard and the top batten. The Fat Head Main takes less prebeend than the San Diego main and concentrates more sail area further aft in the sail plan. More weather helm means a higher pointing and faster boat. The Fat Head Main is designed to use one mast butt position from light to heavy air. Mainsails include: roll bag, battens, insignia, sail number and national letters, vision/spreader windows, leechcord, shelf foot, floating tack, cunningham, leech telltales and J/24 Tuning Guide. "We have never been so fast... There is no question your sails are superior!" -- Jeep "Herb" Califano See What Other Customers Say... Contact J/24 Experts About this Design

NEWPORT DX-7 PENTEX GENOA -- #1 2009 North Americans! From the development of the low luff curve mainsail came the need and opportunity for a deep and forgiving Genoa. The DX-7 features 3DL Kevlar patches. Learn more about North's exclusive 3DL genoa patches. Made of revolutionary Pentex® fabric, the Newport Pentex Genoa has proven to be very durable and fast. This sail is powerful and responsive in light air and in the breeze it will not get deep like a Polyester sail. The Newport DX-7 Pentex Genoa matches up perfectly with the Newport Main to give the helmsman a very wide steering groove. This sail now needs less tweaking than ever before! Genoas include: two vision windows, tacking line, cunningham and roll bag.   Contact J/24 Experts About this Design

NEWPORT DX-7TW TWARON GENOA Hours and hours have been spent developing the new genoa for the J/24 now made out of Aramid material. Read more about the Twaron material. Contact J/24 Experts About this Design

NEWPORT BLADE JIB The first successful Tri-Radial Dacron Jib available in the J/24 class. The Newport Blade Jib was developed in the windy Northeast where blades are often in use for entire regattas. Tri-Radial construction using warp oriented Polyant fabric makes the Newport Blade hold its shape from 18 to the time you wish you weren't out there anymore. Jibs include: vision windows and roll bag. Contact J/24 Experts About this Design

NEWPORT SLANT NOSE +SPINNAKER Computer molding and many hours on the water have proven this spinnaker to be very fast running and extremely durable. This sail has extra stiff patches at the head and clews for maximum projection. This sail is the largest in the class in the lower one third of the sail. While it is made for windward/leeward courses, the low stretch tri-radial construction makes it a good reaching sail. The Newport Slant Nose + Spinnaker comes in three-color zone combinations.   Contact J/24 Experts About this Design

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" Will, you probably don't remember but before the 2008 world championships you kindly gave me some advice on rig setup for our Newport sails. I'm afraid to say like many teams the 2008 worlds was a very disappointing event for us we never really got going although our general pace was good. Shortly after the worlds I finished sailing on Roger Rabbit and started to sail on a 2004 US Watercraft built boat Reloaded. Success shortly followed and we won the British Nationals, the first time a North customer has done for many years". -- Mark Penfold "My fiance and I just purchased a J24 and raced the NOOD in St Pete. We finished fifth, right behind Jason Decker with our New North Newport Sails, Main/Genoa/Spinaker, didn't purchase a blade, but were totally happy with our new sails. I just wanted to let you know that the all top five boats were using Norths, not just the top four. We were super fast out of the box and are looking forward to using our New Sails at the Nationals. " -- Todd Fedyszyn "Our team has experimented with several sailmakers over the years. Each time I sail with a new North Newport Design set I swear to my crew to never let me go with any other sails because the boat just feels so fast. After 2 top ten performances at our last 2 major events, I think we are finally hooked for good!!". -- Kris Werner "I bought a set of North Newport J/24 sails from you last December. I'm happy to say I've won several regattas with them this year, 2002, on my boat "Moofasta" J/24 3970. We won the Barefoot Sailing Club Barefoot Open J/24 class at Lake Lanier, the Lake Lanier Sailing Club One Design Open and the District 8. Just thought I'd let you know I was VERY pleased with the sails and will probably run these another year, but I'll be back to North again in the Fall of for another set!". -- John McCullough What Do You Say?

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