Technology | The Loftsails

1 . Breathing, trim-reactive designs

Wind vision- performance greater then the sum of the parts… the board, the rider and the rig become life-like… windsurfing at its best!  Designs from The Loft are alive; breathing, living performance available from the rig in all conditions. Forward sail profile orientation, high skin tension and a soft-twisting, exhausting leech work together to produce life-like rigs. that expand performance and wind range. Living, breathing designs are characterized by trim reactivity:

Soft trim raises the power center; powering-up the rig in light winds.  -Hard trim lowers the power center; streamlining the rig for strong winds.

2 . Integrated Panel Concept

IPC - The Loft’s simple, effective construction technique. At the sail corners, panels are overlapped creating radial extensions into the sail body.  The Pure Lip clew is where this technique is most visible. The seams that extend into the sail body from the clew allow the 3 “boomzone” panels to each extend under the clew eyelet. This creates multiple two-plys that radiate into the sail body.

3 . The Loft Teckam System- mast interchangability for cams

Simple, functional, light, adjustable, durable... The Loft Reduced and Large Tekcams allow both Sdm & Rdm mast compatibility for Racing Blade sizes 6.3 and larger. No other brand has it. Our Teckam system expands performance possibilities by allowing riders to choose the mast of their choice… sdms are well suited to larger sail sizes, larger riders and flat water, while rdms are well suited to smaller riders, smaller sizes and rough conditions. (Racing Blade sizes 4.9 & 5.6 equipped with Reduced Tekcams only).

4 . The Loft Metallic cam interfaces (MCIs)

With each sail rotation, cam designs without MCIs will experience cam-to-sail contact point degradation. The Loft’s exclusive MCIs work with our Teckam system to eliminate such deterioration to maintain a clean, efficient leading edge for your Blade.

5 . Material quality

From specialized mast pocket styles, state-of-the-art first-quality triaxial and bi-axial laminates, multi-sectioned batten systems with specific precision-ground tapers, scrim adhesive reinforcements and 5-layer glued seams, all Loftsails are produced with first-quality materials and construction techniques.

6 . The Loft batten systems

The Loft builds each Loftsail with specific batten sections and batten tapers to create an optimized internal structure for all our sails. The Loft batten systems are engineered with: Rods :

3mm used for microbattens
Sensitip battens 6mm & 4.8mm
8.5mm used as battens and front ends for tubed battens
8.0mm x 12mm rectangular section used for standing battens (like tubes for waves!) Tubes
8.5mm i.d., 12mm o.d. Supertubes (all carbon) two types:
5.3mm i.d., 8.5mm o.d.
8.5mm i.d., 12mm o.d. The Loft’s rectangular batten section (10mmx7mm rod) is profiled on the wider dimension- this forces the rear section to resist flex in its stiffer (standing) orientation. The effect is like tubes (stiff!) and does not suffer fragility in surf.

The Loft Lip Wave, Wavescape, Advance and O2 designs are equipped at specific locations with our exclusive standing battens.  Loftsails are performance-enhanced in the upper end with our advanced, exclusive battens systems... you can feel the difference!

7 . Sensitip

Oxygen, Switchblade, Racing Blade, Blade FR, Blade RB: The Loft’s Sensitip head batten design is a downhaul-activated tip system. The Sensitip rod is flexed as downhaul tension is applied. Stretch your feeling out and up at the tip!  An improved head planform is possible with the Sensitip. The Sensitip is soft, stable and natural leech twist at the tip- expanding performance and wind range.

8 . Symetrical

All Loftsails Blade designs (Racing Blade, Switchblade, Blade FR, Blade RB) include alternate side batten pocket locations on battens that include Tekcams. This building technique minimizes the tendency for the sail to prefer one tack over the other. The result is equalized body profiles from one tack to the other, and ease of sail rotation.  Part of this technique is the xply batten pockets with 3 strips of scrim applied. Batten pockets that match the sail body regarding stretch character assists in keeping the batten tension centered.

9 . Equalized

The Loft 2010 batten tensioners- dual side-loops that center & equalize batten tensioner load to the batten/batten pocket/sail body.

10 . Molded protection

Thermo-foam mast/board pad with uphaul port, batten-tensioner key keeper, line pouch and roll-up strap.
Soft pvc foot edge, lower batten pocket & foot 2ply seam protectors.
Soft pvc batten pocket/boom protector applied to batten pocket crossing the boom on our Oxygen, Switchblades, Racing Blades, Blade FR, Blade RB designs. -Molded pvc protectors sewn onto the mast pocket top prevents wear to critical parts while being aerodynamically optimized.

11 . Expanded wind range made direct- The Loft Adjustable Outhaul

The Loft adjustable outhaul is easy & effective. Compatible with all boom types, included with every Loftsail- adjust the character of your rig immediately and effectively… suitable for wave, bump & jump, freeride, freerace and slalom competitions!