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HENDO 77 said..
Newbie Questions .
Could you use a SUP that has a mast track as I never see formula boards come up cheap anymore.
Purely as a start off or first season board.
Are foils different for windsurfing, SUP , surfing or are they interchangable
Cheers

Cool you want to start foiling! To start of, everything is possible, allthough using a SUP wont allow you to use big sails, for the board width needed increases quite alot per sailsize (think about 6m max). That being said, there are quite a lot of convertible foil SUP's out there, so the concept works! (F-one Papenoo, Starboard Hypernut 4-in-1, JP Slate, etc.)

As for foils, if you have a trackmount foils should be relatively interchangable. Wings are interchangable between disciplines without problems, even with very positive results! The main difference between a windfoil and SUP/Surf foils is that our mast is generally a little longer, which widely increase the ease of use for windfoiling. The second thing is that the fuselages are a little longer, positioning the front wing further in front of the mast for better balance, and extending the stabilizer backward for increaes stability. The latter also goes for the difference between kite and windfoils.

Windfoil specific wings are generally a little more high aspect to allow for faster speed riding windsurfers generally do.

A SUP works, best if it has a deeptuttle for windfoil style foiling AND US-rails for Supfoil style (wind)foiling.
Like my boards. I'm on the third custom board having this concept.
This ones for sale atm, it's No. 2.

I was thinking the same - I have Fanatic stubbie - 8'2" 29 wide and 105 litres.

Could i I use that to foil with windsurf ?

could I then use it as a foiling sup or would track be in wrong place

Here's a video of Tyson Poor riding a 96 litre JP SUP.