We gave the new flat sails of Easy Go a workout with our spring passage from Portsmouth, Dominica to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Actual distance was about 1850 nm (rhumb line of 1740 nm) in 21 days. Lots of Northeast winds made for upwind sailing. One gale from the southwest had us flying along with only the two top panels up on each sail. We were maintaining speeds in the high 6 knot range with spurts into the 7's and 8's occasionally. No heaving to at all with the sails up fro the entire trip. The winds were often light and mileages were not as good as we had hoped for. The heavier material and the new cutting style on the two top panels are definitely giving us better sailing performance on these sails than the old ones. No wear or damage to the sails this trip other than a few chafe holes on the main sail that actually occurred while the sail was down in the lazy-jacks in a rolly anchorage in Portsmouth and the sail was chafing against the mast. We have made a small chafe guard to hopefully alleviate this in the future. It is simply a piece of TopGun cut in a triangular shape and attached to the mast lift line and the boom. Seems to be working so far.