I notice naish have an alaia in their board range as a light wind board.
Anyone used one?
The alaia is super thin similar to a giant twin tip without fins.
Global Industries have been marketing "Sea Glass Tuna" also finless an epoxy version of the alaia.
Anyone tried these? They are for hire so if no ones tried I'll give it a go and report back.
Surfing community seems to be splitting on the finless rage, I've watched at noosa an alaia being surfed looked fast but out'a'control.
Thinking a bit bigger board than a bigger kite for these light wind conditions.
Jus can't do the sup thing as an alternative.
I made one, same size as the Naish but I used a single large concave from side to side.
It is so much fun and goes awesome upwind, anyone that has ridden mine wants to make one too. You will definitly be happy with it.
I kite 12knts on an 11m switchblade, people could prove this as they have seen me.
I don't know how happy I would be paying full price though. It is just a peice of well shaped wood.
Cost me $25 and took a couple hours to make plus painting it with epoxy resin
Alaia's are ghey, and I seriously think some people are crazy to shell out $000's for a piece of ply.
here is mine. thats without resin coating.
the timber is just a plain peice of laminated pine board. made up of small pieces of pine glued together. i bought the timber from bunnings for $25 i think its made for cupboard doors.
the dimmensions are the same as the naish version. im pretty sure the timber i bought was almost exact length and width.
i copied the shape of the naish aswell. you can see in the photo the large concave i used, it fades out to nothing at the front.
i used it today but the wind struggled to reach 10knots so i got a couple runs along the beach on my 16.
and then this happened.
This link should help: http://waterlust.org/Alaia.html
Don't miss the two tabs below the video, a CAD file and a PDF guide to building your own.
Enjoy - and report back 
