Finally found jimbo the perfect sailboard

Edited by iGRF - 02 Sep 13 at 10:12pm

There are no Longboards that would suit you, I sent you the most modern and up to date to try, the Kona, even the Carbon Kona doesn't have enough volume for fresh water and sailing a longboard correctly is beyond most shorboarders.

They are uneconomical to build, difficult to ship, impossible to find shelf space for and no clubs to support racing, the culture of building our own was killed by the IYRU & ISAF because of the class minimum homologation numbers, so a fine pursuit is effectively killed off despite being the one form of windsurf/sailboard racing doable in all conditions.

No real point discussing them any more, short of building one that foils, they are as dead as the proverbial dodo.

Edited by iGRF - 03 Sep 13 at 12:26am

Now that Carb One has a track, it makes it a far more useful racing proposition, the idea of the Original Kona was to go upwind off the fin when the wind gets up, but it never really had VMG more than using the plate, but, using the plate was very uncomfortable without a track, I still can't get my head round sailing craft that manage without tracks.

That other board has exactly the same issues that confounded you with the big raceboard I loaned you, in order to make them work you really have to dial using the mast track particularly if you have a tendency due to excess bulk, to sink the tail off wind..

The issue you'll risk with the Carb One is damage in transit, they operate a Euro website and try to ship direct, and like us with our stupid pointy long kayaks things it's almost 100% guaranteed to be damaged in transit. (Another reason Distributor/Dealer functionality was necessary in the sailboard business).

Get yourself an old Cat, Equipe or Phantom have a go, realise technical longboard sailing is beyond the motor skills of dinghy sailors (All) then buy that D1 you know you'll eventually have to own.

Here, this picture perfectly illustrates why if the board were fitted with a mast track and the mast foot slid about a foot further forward, the unfortunate illustrated weight watcher wouldn't be dragging the stern so deep in the water..

Edited by iGRF - 05 Sep 13 at 3:14pm

Originally posted by yellowwelly I'm sure Dumberer handed you your ass recently?  If Dumberer can do it....

Dumberer got very very very lucky and has been sailing with us for some while being told what to do and how to do it, spend some time sailing with us and you too would almost certainly take the odd race off me, now I'm senile, weak through lack of training and flush with a new benevolence to youfkind that somehow seems to have come on with the onset of decrepitude. I even stopped yesterday to help a young lady with her pumping technique. I even resisted placing my hand upon her derrierre to prevent the in out thrusting action girls seem to incorrectly adopt whilst pumping. (Bryony still does it).