Do any board manufactures offer Speed boards with 100 litres of volume and 52-53 wide?
I know slalom boards would full into this bracket but the 100litre slalom boards are also 65-68wide and 52-53 wide slalom boards come with only 70-85litres.
Pretty sure Chris said the 53 was around 86 litres.
Choco , could always have one designed and built!!!
I think the 53 cm is 91 l.
I have an CA SP60, it is ~105 l. I think this board is going to be tweaked and re-introduced to CA range. Might lose a little volume as well.
Slalom rocker and speed rocker are different.
I'm sure James Dinnis will make you a floaty custom CA speed rocker board for only a slight premium over the stock range.
I think spotty might have a 120 odd liter CA speed machine on the way,but it doesn't seem to worry him how wide they are... they all do at least 43 knots![]()
Where i sail on the lake the smoothest water is close to shore but it gets gusty,my Manta 67 works very well but i really enjoy being on the SP50 simply because it feels great to sail the only problem is that it suffers in the holes and being 104kg doesn't help,the feel of the SP50 is what i want in a bigger speed board.
I could glue my SP40 on top of the 50 and that would give me the volume i'm after hmmm....
Choco if you dont mind going slightly old school the Drops 8'10" is the perfect board. 96 liters volume, 53 cm wide. www.windsurfingmag.com I rate only two old school boards the original F2 Sputnik 270, good for 43 knots, and the Drops 8'10", also a rocket ship. Even Slowboat rates it as a goodun!
I have one of the Drops boards and let me tell you, there is NO WAY that the volume is 96 litres. I can fully float on my Falcon 90 with rig (I weigh 76kgs) and when I get on the Drops it sinks to the bottom like a stone if I'm not moving at all.
I'll have it at Speed Week if you want a blat Choco...
*edit-- oops, just watched the vid Roo, mine is a newer version than that board, but it still says 96 litres on it and it still sinks ![]()
I think Starboard aren't the only ones guilty of using "apparent volume".
I have a Thommen supposedly 100l, and at my 68kgs it only just floats me, I'm sure my rig and wetsuit etc doesn't weigh 30kgs.
So be careful about modern boards, claimed volume, it doesn't always equate.
just checked out your back yard setup icesurf, i'm im inpressed
how good is that cutout, it must have been a mightmare glassing and bagging it or was that an after thought
and it looks like its more than 100lts