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Step one
Design
Measure and panel layout. Youp draws the outline, sets the seams and plots every panel before a blade touches film.
HeYYou · Bonaire
High-performance
sails, handmade on Bonaire.
Freestyle and wave sails, cut and stitched one at a time by PWA World Tour pro Youp Schmit. Handmade in windsurf paradise: Bonaire, in the Caribbean.
The maker
Youp Schmit
Youp has spent his life on the water. Years of riding taught him exactly how a sail should load, twist and release, and off-the-shelf gear never quite matched what he felt underfoot. So he started building his own, and HeYYou grew straight out of that.
Now every sail is shaped and stitched by hand on Bonaire, then taken straight back onto the water and tuned until it feels right. Nothing leaves the bench until it holds up in real Caribbean conditions.
- Designed and built on Bonaire
- Bonaire designed & built
- Every panel stitched by hand
- By hand every single panel
- Made to your size
- Custom made to your size
The craft
From a roll of film to a finished rig.
Every HeYYou sail is measured, cut, stitched and tuned by hand on Bonaire. Four steps, no shortcuts.
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Step two
Cut
Monofilm, carbon scrim and neon panels rolled out and cut clean. This is where the Freestyle Limited Edition colours come alive.
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Step three
Stitch
Long-arm machine, zigzag seams. Panel by panel the sail takes shape, every stitch pulled to the tension a freestyle rig demands.
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Step four
Tune
Rig it, water-test it at Sorobon. Youp rides every sail before it ships, dialling the trim until it loads and releases exactly right.
Built to compete
One sail,
built by hand.
Measured, cut and stitched on Bonaire, the exact sail Youp competes on. Nothing here is a prototype. It all gets ridden, hard, every single session.
01 / The sail
Custom, handmade on Bonaire
Monofilm, carbon scrim and neon panels, measured, cut and stitched by hand on the workshop floor. Every HeYYou sail is built for freestyle. No two leave the same.
100% handmade, Sorobon, Bonaire
02 / Made to spec
Your size, your colours
Freestyle, wave or freeride. Bring your dimensions and colourway, or start from Youp's tour spec. Every sail is built one at a time.
03 / Bonaire-built
Made where it gets ridden
Cut, sewn and tuned steps from the water at Sorobon and Red Slave, Dutch Caribbean. Island time on the build, tested the same afternoon.
Sorobon · Red Slave · Bonaire
04 / The athlete
Ridden on tour
Youp Schmit, PWA World Tour freestyle pro and inventor of the DoubleAirCulo, rides this exact sail. So does team rider Bjorn Saragoza. What you see here is what they compete on.
05 / Coming soon
Freestyle Limited Edition
A short run of numbered sails in a one-off neon colourway. Built to the same spec as the tour rig.
Talk to Youp about a sail
Made and ridden on Bonaire.
Freestyle, limited
Limited Edition sails.
A small run of custom freestyle sails, made to order in your colors and sizes. When they are gone, they are gone.
Reserve yours
Made by hand on Bonaire
Let's build your sail
Tell us what you ride.
Send your size, style and home spot. Youp gets back to you himself, from the workshop on Bonaire.
Made on Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
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