Hey guys, its Alejandro from Spain, reading your forum and saying cheers!
My smaller equipment is 4.7 m with a single fin jp freestylewave 93 liters. i am getting more and more excited about strong winds and i recently got 4.2 and 3.7 sails for windsurfing the real windy days. At first i will go to flat and choppy conditions and when i feel more comfortable, try to hit open sea with onshore conditions.
My question is what board would you reccommend for having under the 93 liter? I am 70 kilograms and my level is intermediate (planning , waterstart and finishing some jibes). Maybe 75-80 liters with 3fin, quad, single..?
thank you very much and good wind and waves!!!
Usually with multi fin boards it depends on what the wind is doing. IE: is it more onshore or side shore.?
Lots of quads work better down the line, in side shore conditions, except the Cube by Quatro and the Goya quad, most thruster boards work better in slightly on shore conditions.
I'd say 75 litre for your weight.
If you are 70kgs then a modern small board for you would be about 75-80 litres and I'd recommend a tri fin.
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Hey guys, its Alejandro from Spain, reading your forum and saying cheers!
My smaller equipment is 4.7 m with a single fin jp freestylewave 93 liters. i am getting more and more excited about strong winds and i recently got 4.2 and 3.7 sails for windsurfing the real windy days. At first i will go to flat and choppy conditions and when i feel more comfortable, try to hit open sea with onshore conditions.
My question is what board would you reccommend for having under the 93 liter? I am 70 kilograms and my level is intermediate (planning , waterstart and finishing some jibes). Maybe 75-80 liters with 3fin, quad, single..?
thank you very much and good wind and waves!!!
Hi Alejandro, I am 71 Kg and regularly sail in 4.2-4.7 conditions. If I were you I would not go below 80 liters unless the conditions you sail in have very steady winds. A 75 L boards is serious sinker at our weight and needs power to keep going.
My high wind quiver is a RRD FSW 90 (60 wide), and a Starboard FSW 81 (57.5 wide). The gap might seem small but it is actually not so with the RRD capable of using up to 6.5 at my weight, and the Starboard not too happy with anything bigger than 5.4. However the Starboard covers great from 4.7 down to 3.7 overpowered. I use it as a three fin with a 22 cm central fin and tiny, 6 cm, sides. Get a three fin, is nice to have the option to go single.
Yeah I missed the part that implied intermediate skill level. I revise my volume estimate up more like the other two posters said.
Thanks a lot for your help. I will follow your advice and look for something about 80 l, if posible with multi fin options. Cheers!
75 if sailing well powered. If need a bit more in gusty winds maybe 80. I'm in cabarete where the wind is gusty but drops a bit in the waves, 82/85 works. 80 down is more work unless wider and even then. Usually sail 15-25, rarely 25-30, then 80 is fine.
