Witchcraft Slayer 3,5 Yellow-Black

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SLAYER

Serious Business

The 4-batten wave wonder weapon from Witchcraft: With the Slayer, the premium sailing brand meets the high demands of windsurfers in terms of performance, durability and lightness. The Slayer means serious business, aimed to delivery stable reliable power. Like where motocross has moved away from the more direct but nervous 2 stroke engines to more reliable and predictable 4 stroke engines, we wanted the sails power delivery to be very smooth and stable to be able to do more with the wave and hit the lip where you want to hit it.  The Slayer´s higher aspect ratio also gives more power on the rail to drive the board. You can make tighter harder driven bottom turns than you could before without getting thrown off balance or the clew catching the water or lip.
It is quite unique with a morphing seam shape through the range, with each size up, seam shape increases slightly to allow you to take a smaller big size so to speak. This also means the bigger sizes are also very good for float n ride, when set full the Slayer has a “turbo boost”. Even higher up it gets shape where there is more wind, especially between waves. Like this it delivers a lot more power, even when you think it´s too light to go out. In its fuller setting, the power delivery is very stable and the sail can still depower well because battens want to flatten by themselves. Set flatter, the Slayer becomes more direct, yet still smooth and stable. Heavy sailors love the power, light sailors love the stable predictable behaviour and precision.

The smaller sizes are flatter to handle high winds better. Our teamriders in Pozo did not want to have to go down to too small a size, you still want something in your hands, so the smaller sizes are increasingly designed for high wind control. So in effect the whole range covers a bigger wind range than the sizes indicate.
The dacron luff panel and PVC window gives a softer feel with the ability to go neutral allowing the rider to concentrate on the wave and not the sail.  The higher aspect ratio also keeps the boom shorter and gives more room to maneouvre the sail, to be able to lean it more into the turn, allowing to make tighter turns and get closer to the lip. As luff length is more important than area, higher aspect sails are more efficient so you can rig around 0.3 to 0.5m² smaller than with other brands. The Slayer has the centre of effort located higher and forwards, placing the rider into a more upright, manoeuvre-oriented position and moving the sail around in turns has more effect. It also makes water starting between waves, where there is less wind down below, easier and faster to get out of trouble.

As we are very experienced sail repairers as well, we can safely say that you will not be able to find a better built sail. The sail is built to handle getting washed by waves, without ripping or overstretching and loosing it´s crisp feel. A sail that keeps its shape feels lighter than a physically light sail that can´t keep its shape as well, either because its overstretched, less seam shape or has less battens.

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