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Monty Spindler moved to Hong Kong in 1983 joining Blaauw and Spanier at Pryde as a staff designer.Spindler’s first project at Pryde was a racing quiver for Ken Winner. The result powered Winner to second overall behind Naish in the World Cups of ’84 & ’85..
Mike Waltze, Matt Schweitzer and Spindler worked together developing the Neil Pryde wavesail design "Ultranova", the first series all-full-batten wave design.
Winner & Spindler developed reefing sails for crossing ventures. The fruit of this work was later taken to extremes by Arnaud deRosnay in his infamous channel crossings. Monty also built early wing mast sails at the Maui Sails Loft.
Monty was an extremely productive designer for Pryde. He was doing the bulk of the OEM work for board manufacturers (Sailboard, Hifly, Tiga, Windsurfer, Alpha, Sport Bittl, Windsurfing Japan, among others). He also designed some of the Neil Pryde collection sails (Nova, Ultranova, RAF Slalom).
1985 was a transition year. Leaving Pryde, Monty entered into negotiations with F2, Gaastra and North. He decided after considering the offers to go ahead with his own business. But there was one last meeting in Hong Kong with Eckart Wagner (North) and Udo Schutz (Fanatic). This meeting ended in an agreement to work together.At the end of 1985 Monty produced prototypes for North Sails. These protos included the controversial "cut away". The protos were made at the Garda North loft and were tested with positive results by Helgo Lass and Cesare Cantigalli. Monty’s design position at North lasted for only some weeks as the situation was complicated by the difficulties North windsurfing was experiencing at that time. At this moment Mr Schutz moved. Schutz bought what was the North/DeVries sail loft in Hong Kong and offered to Monty a position as his designer, and so began A.R.T.
In 1986 Monty set up his own sail loft on Lake Garda; "Spindler Design". His loft was the R&D center for the ART brand. Spindler Design prospered on Lake Garda for seven years, then was sold to the Fanatic group.Three consecutive absolute World Sailing Speed Records were set with Spindler designed sails in the early 1990’s, first with Pascal Maka and then with Thierry Bielak.
’92-’93 the top 3 positions on the RYA’s absolute world speed sailing record list were occupied with Spindler designed windsurfing speed sails.
Spindler left ART in 1996, two years later ART closed. With the energy of a dedicated windsurfer, The Loft was born in 1998.
Mike Waltze, Matt Schweitzer and Spindler worked together developing the Neil Pryde wavesail design "Ultranova", the first series all-full-batten wave design.
Winner & Spindler developed reefing sails for crossing ventures. The fruit of this work was later taken to extremes by Arnaud deRosnay in his infamous channel crossings. Monty also built early wing mast sails at the Maui Sails Loft.
Monty was an extremely productive designer for Pryde. He was doing the bulk of the OEM work for board manufacturers (Sailboard, Hifly, Tiga, Windsurfer, Alpha, Sport Bittl, Windsurfing Japan, among others). He also designed some of the Neil Pryde collection sails (Nova, Ultranova, RAF Slalom).
1985 was a transition year. Leaving Pryde, Monty entered into negotiations with F2, Gaastra and North. He decided after considering the offers to go ahead with his own business. But there was one last meeting in Hong Kong with Eckart Wagner (North) and Udo Schutz (Fanatic). This meeting ended in an agreement to work together.At the end of 1985 Monty produced prototypes for North Sails. These protos included the controversial "cut away". The protos were made at the Garda North loft and were tested with positive results by Helgo Lass and Cesare Cantigalli. Monty’s design position at North lasted for only some weeks as the situation was complicated by the difficulties North windsurfing was experiencing at that time. At this moment Mr Schutz moved. Schutz bought what was the North/DeVries sail loft in Hong Kong and offered to Monty a position as his designer, and so began A.R.T.
In 1986 Monty set up his own sail loft on Lake Garda; "Spindler Design". His loft was the R&D center for the ART brand. Spindler Design prospered on Lake Garda for seven years, then was sold to the Fanatic group.Three consecutive absolute World Sailing Speed Records were set with Spindler designed sails in the early 1990’s, first with Pascal Maka and then with Thierry Bielak.
’92-’93 the top 3 positions on the RYA’s absolute world speed sailing record list were occupied with Spindler designed windsurfing speed sails.
Spindler left ART in 1996, two years later ART closed. With the energy of a dedicated windsurfer, The Loft was born in 1998.
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