X-35

North-Powered Boats Dominate 2009 X-35 Worlds in Kiel, Germany

The2009 X-35 Worlds was the first Worlds Championship since theintroduction of the X-35 class into North's Class Sail Development.This latest addition to the CSD line-up has come about thanks to thetireless efforts and great cooperation between North Sails Denmark -Rasmus Winston Rasmussen and Sofus Pederson, and North Sails in Italy -Alessio Razeto and Stefano Schiaffino. Sharing a wealth of experienceand knowledge within this small group of class experts, we were able toagree on consensus designs for each of the sail models within theinventory. The top three boats at the worlds used full North Sailsinventories. Alessandro Solerio and crew on Lelagain(ITA-16155) won the World Championship after sailing a very consistentseries with a low average score in variable conditions from 6-30 knots.Second was Kimmo Vähätalo and crew on RoXanna (FIN-143), followed by Albert Kooijman and crew on Just4Fun(NED-57). Boats equipped with North sails won six out of ninwraces. North's new CSD Mainsail (MN-1) was very fast out of the box andperformed great under the wide range of conditions throughout the week.The new CSD Heavy Class Spinnaker (S2-1) performed great from 15-30TWS.

© Per Heegaard
© Per HeegaardX-35: In a fleet with some of the world's best sailors you need the worlds best sails.

NorthSails' Class Sail Development (CSD) is working harder than ever toserve the X-35. X-35 sails are made with the most advanced materialsand manufacturing technology in the industry, and we are constantlyworking to develop our sails in every way from tuning to manufactureand design...