German SURF (Nov '07) has published an extensive freeride sail test. We are exited to find out that the results are beyond expectations. These are the categories that were tested: 3 cams (Glide 7.5), 2 cams (Element 7.5) and no cam sails (NCX 7.0).

Element: early planing & high wind controllability
NCX: extreme light with early planing ability
Glide: best handling and performance

In the 3 cam category the so called "freeglide powersails" were also compared to one square meter larger (8.5) freerace sails and the results are very interesting: despite being smaller, the freeglide sails can easily compete with freerace sails, in the end it comes down to personal preference. The advantage of using a smaller freeglide sail (Glide 7.5) is seen as:

can be rigged on a 460 mast
can mostly keep up with 8.5 freerace sails
in comparison, they show a much better maneuver handling capacity

For more details, please have a look at the translation of the three sails tested in Sails tests