Boom for ladies

Don't get anything over 26mm for small sails. A little more expensive than the cheapest booms but it's worth it. Get the wave profile too, so the grip is a straight bar..

I've spent a fair bit of time teaching spouses, and she won't be happy if she sees a better boom on the beach...

+1 for the Gun Mono. I also have a very similar Naish which seems well made...

I had a $5 bet with Jesus that you'd come on here and plug something HotSails..

Now all we need is Steggles to come talk up Neilpryde and fat grip booms..

And Mark_Australia to come on and mention that colorful boards are too hard to repair and that everything should be flat white..

And I'll mention that all alloy booms are ladies booms, and people will get upset with me and say "I've been using my Alloy Zboom since before you were born rabble rabble rabble"

/thread

I think booms should just have plain black grip. When the most worn area is stuffed it is easy to replace just a section.

Barn - take your $5 and give it back to Jesus at Christmas mass, lest all the ghosts from PM33's neighbour's place come looking for you.
I think somebody had sand in his vag today.

Awww calm down Lego, I'm just having a laugh at the clockwork nature of these topics.. Don't get your Dacron in a twist

Yes Mark, all booms should be black!! Or at least lose the fancy stuff that falls apart.. The booms should then be sold with a generous sheet of replacement foam.

I've put my $5 towards a new GoPro, I'm gonna catch a 1080dpi2 picture of pm33's Ghosts!!

The missus has had a few booms in the past,

North Booms, Neil Pryde X3's (couple of these) and now has a nice carbon Chinook,

She is about comfort for sailing and likes a narrow grip, all three have had this characteristic.

The north delaminated, the rubber split one day and it started to peel off. The X3 cracked on the head (they had a hard life, so fully expected) and the Chinook is only 6 months old, but is easily the best quality, not necessarily the lightest, less flexy of them all.

I would buy the best one you can afford,

I have heard good things about Severne booms,

(Good review, I've seen the NP issue (and those who remember I was proved wrong on NP quality), and the Norths seem to all delaminate)

Severne? well now that you mentioned it, and since we're blatantly plugging our financially favored products, teh Severne alloy wave is 26mm, and it doesn't have any of that yuck tapered 26>29 rubbish, which I've found to be uncomfortable and a major weak point (I've destroyed many 26mm alloy booms and wouldn't recommend them to heavier sailors, or light guys who are super mad extreme!!!1)

All that along with the all new refined boom clamp and the no nonsense grip, makes the Severne Metal a great package for all your Xmas stockings, unless your a Fat Ass..

Tell your local dealer Barn sent you, for a bonus fish tank with live barnacles..



**Note: I'm deliberately being obnoxious, don't get upset**

I've heard that Barn doesn't need to use a "f@&kn computer", he uses telepathy.

I rarely agree with Barn but this time I do.
I'm a lady with small hands and I like the 26mm grip and I really like the new skool wave shape with the straight arms. The aeron v grips feel really good too. 140 - 190 fits everything from my 4m to my 6.4.
I don't think the brand matters, just get the size right, and preferably get a colour that matches her sails... Colour is important to ladies.

Two loops of rope go around the mast and then loop around a knob. You then lever the rope tight. It looks like it's modeled on the original clamp on boom system. I had an old Chinook boom that used a similar mechanism. The system works okay.

I dont usually notice colour but when I got my latest 4.8m sail I suddenly realised the sail was blue with a yellow lightning bolt pattern which looked great with my blue board..