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.
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.