Rider: 85kg, Advanced
Style: Freeriding - speed and upwind
Weather: 23 knots
Build Quality: 9/10
Satisfaction: 9/10
First session on an Airush Sector 60 V2 race board 2012 model. It goes upwind so easy and downwind like a demon! Stable too.
More details: www.peterskiteboarding.com/2012/01/upwind-from-hampton-to-ricketts-point.html
I am not jibing yet, but the extra flotation would appear to make this easier to compared to a surfboard.
Some information on setting it up: www.peterskiteboarding.com/2012/01/airush-sector-60-race-board-unboxed.html
I don't think so. I have just bought the board and it had just arrived from the docks.
The graphics match the V2 style (two diagonal stripes from centre of tail to the sides) and it has a wider square tail than the V1.
You are both right! the Sector 60 one design is a Sector 60 V2 
at the moment they are the exact same shape but have different sparkles.
At the end of the 2012 season Airush will update the V2 but leave the one design the same until the end of the 2013 season. The idea behind this is to help set up a one design class that will help to push kite course racing forwards.
So you both have a sector 60 V2 but the orange one has the one design graphics and the yellow one is the standard V2 graphics (but both the same shape)
And they both ROCK!
looks like perfect weather this weekend to test how light a wind i can kite in damo . i never though i would be happy to see yellow arrows all weekend
I have the V2, my mate has the One Design, as does Peter.
I strongly recommend filling the gap in the deck pad on the One Design. That is exactly where you want your back foot for upwind or toe side.
The "One Design" printed in the middle of the deck is a bit of a giveaway. 
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The Sector 60, and raceboards in general, don't really go in light wind much more than any other light wind board does (say a lightwind TT or flat rockered surf board)). What they do is go rocking upwind in those same light winds.
I'll call total BS on any one that says they can get going on a TT or a surf board on the same size kite as early as i can get going on a sector 60 or on my race board! With the correct technique you can get going much earlier on a Sector 60 and way way earlier on a good race board.
I don't ride raceboards ----- yet anyway
But I borrowed a RRD raceboard and a RRD Addiction 16m from at friend some months ago. The wind was so light that the kite almost would not launch.
I rocketed away on that raceboard. There is no way in hell that my 95 kg would have moved on a TT. No one else did !
On another note. My friend on his RRD raceboard did try it back2back with the Sector V1 on a light wind day when he exchanged with another rider. The raceboard did plane faster and pointed higher that day. Sector probably is more fun, but does not go as early according to him
any recommendation to a flat rockered surfboard that will move early ??
I looked at an Underground in this video but have not any possibility of testing it locally
took my sector 60 v2 out yesterday at melville . Once i got the straps to my liking which required a few modifications and i got used to not riding it like a tt holy **** was it fun . Can't say i have gybe's sussed , did more face planting than efficient turns :P
But i was out on my 10.5 from 13 to 22 knots and i weigh 105kg . F*** it was so much fun . Everything i know on a TT has gone out the window but i can see how this board has opened up my options so much more than simply buying a bigger kite .
The amount of speed i generated in 15 knots took me by suprise at first but once i was confident to just lean back and gets those fins working the thing just trucked upwind and picked up speed with minimal effort . normally in 15ish knots i will be on the 13 and having nowhere near as much fun as i had yesterday .
love the board
You're right about how much speed these things can generate in moderate wind. I took my Sector v1 52 to the Cook Islands last year and measured 27 knots in about 15 knots of breeze on my GPS, which is not too shabby I reckon. I think the longer fins help keep line tension by providing good resistance to sideways slip (and thus keep power in the kite), plus the flat rocker gives a really nice planing surface , like a windsurfer.
Welcome to the club, I absolutely love my Sector, beats mowing the lawn on a twin-tip when the wind is 10-15 knots I reckon !
love my sector, it opened up a new realms of riding for me. coastal adventuring, racing, light wind free riding. Getting away from the launch site to see whats around the corner or out around the islands. Just magical. the TT does not see many days on the water anymore its the sector or a surf board now.
