The BOARDS Test Teamput a selection of wave and all-round sails through their paces in asmany different sizes as possible, while also exploring how each...
Sizes: 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.6m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: Pryde masts tend to be flex-top in bend curve (by our definition – though Pryde...
Sizes: 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.7m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: Recommended for use with skinny masts although billed as compatible with SD masts too. The...
Sizes: 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.7m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: Recommended for use with skinny masts although capable of being used with SD...
Sizes: 3.6, 4.0, 4.4, 4.7, 5.0, 5.4, 5.8, 6.2m. Mast recommendations: We only tried the Boxer in 5.4m and on its own mast, so we have...
Sizes: 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.6m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: Pryde masts tend to be flex-top in bend curve (by our definition –...
Sizes: 3.4, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.7, 6.2m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: North recommend SD masts with their wave sails and although they do...
Sizes: 3.0, 3.4, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.7m. Mast recommendations: As for the Ice. The Voodoo is also designed so that all sizes...
Sizes: 3.5, 3.8, 4.1, 4.4, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.6, 5.9, 6.2m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: We used the Icon 5.3 with a Simmer SC RD 90% mast...
Sizes: 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.3, 5.7, 6.2, 6.7, 7.2m. Mast recommendations: As for Simmer Icon, except that the 5.3 Crossover sets on a...
Sizes: 2.7, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, 5.7, 6.0m. Manufacturer’s mast recommendations: The Rock is designed to set on either SD or RD...
We have been impressed by several examples from this range over the past few seasons. It isn’t the easiest range to pin down in terms...
The Spice range fits between the Rebel waveboards and the XTC, Stoke and Chilli freeride and freestyle boards and appears to be unchanged fromthe shape...
Unchanged from 2007, the FreeWaves have for several years enjoyed a reputation for fast, early planing performance, with sharp carving and high comfort. On the Water:The...
Unchanged from the board we tested last year and the bigger brother of the 77 tested in the wave test last month. Goya have sensibly...
The idea behind including the RWW was to see how a ‘fast’ (low rockered) waveboard fared against the FSWall-rounders on test.We like to do this...
The board that launched the freestyle-wave genre and redefined the wave-slalom concept for the widestyle age, the JP FSW has always had a reputation for...
The 83 is a new shape that slots into the existing Global “versatile waveboard” range and stays true to the early planing character of the...
This is the redesign of the board that did so well in our all-rounder / freestyle-wave test last year. It has been changed quite a...
2008 sees more minor tweaks to RRD’s successful all-rounder. They have retreated slightly from the much wider nose and tail of the ’07 board, cut...
Starboard have gone for quite a radical redesign of the Kombat for ’08, signalled by changing the colour from the traditional blue and grey to...
The 3S stands for three style which means wave, freestyle and freeride – in other words, a real jackof- all-trades. Last year’s 3S, however, was...
Freestyle-wave, small freemove, freewave, cross, wave-slalom or threestyle; call them what you will, they’re the most exciting boards you can find for all-round sailing in...
With the help of some senior instructors, Ian Leonard charts the (new) right board progression to windsurfing competence… In recent years the landscape...
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