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Fast. If you want speed, stability and smooth handling in strong winds, the Spiderlok Five should be the sail your rigging. When your ready to break away from cambered sails, but want the locked in feel they supply, you will find what your looking for in any size of these sails.

We started this project of a lightweight five batten wave sail with requests from sailors who spend most of their high wind sailing on choppy water in pretty gusty conditions and wanted a sail that would handle whatever kind of gust was blown their way. They wanted all the benefits of the Spiderlok Wave sail, but a "no brainer" to handle when conditions got out of hand.

Jeffrey Henderson and Tom Hammerton designed this sail in the spring when weeks of 3.3 and 3.8 sailing are not uncommon. Working within an existing plan form (Spiderlok) but a totally different set of parameters (stiff, high wind sail), they tweaked and tuned the front half of the sail until finding the perfect combination of luff curves and shaping points. The result is the Spiderlok Five now offered.

The sail is a low tension, slightly pretwisted leech design that is easy to rig, tune and sail. It is blazing fast for a wave sail, and is a dream to fly when you leave the water, which tends to happen often at the speeds this sail enjoys. Handling is light and crisp making long days of sailing are a breeze, and water starts are shockingly easily.