2026 Duotone X-Pace

The new shop favorite!  The 2026 Duotone X_Pace.

We have been blown away with the performance of this sail. It's super light in the hands, and has tremendous speed built in. The pre-shaping in the sail really does get you planing as fast as any cam sail, and it surpasses the stability of any 2-3 cam recreational race sail. And the icing on the cake is that it's simple and easy to rig, with an RDM being the goto mast upto 7.3.

What Duotone Says:

The X_PACE project was born out of a personal demand from some of the o-50 guys in our department. Having been dedicated cam sail racers back in the days the wheel of time took its toll. Lifting a cam-sail being filled with water has simply become a dealbreaker. But these guys still have the speed-skills of being the fastest at their local spot.

The biggest hurdle was to generate a similar pre-shaping including a “hump” in the luff panel even without cambers. After 2 years of development we have achieved this with a completely unique shaping concept which induces a similar (pre)shaping into the luff panel like seen on cambered racing sails. 

This heavy pre-shaping has also led to another decisive advantage as it allows to use either SDM or RDM masts. Usually RDM masts do not work on sails bigger than 6.5 as they are simply too soft. But the pre-shaping of the sail compensates for this to such an extent that there is no loss of performance compared to SDM masts.

The X_PACE generates power, acceleration, speed and a locked-in feel that rivals any cambered sail. The forward pull pushes you into a committed stance, allowing to let your board fly on the fin.

And all of that combined with a super narrow mast sleeve. Combined with being one of the lightest freerace sails out there makes you lift the sail out of the water similar to a bigger wave sail. 

Last but not least the absence of cams makes the X_PACE rig as easy and fast as a wave sail.