Is there still a good market for long skinny DW boards or is there now a big shift?
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Looks like it depends where you are
Still big here. Not in other places. I was wrong.
Long and skinny is the only way if its SUP dw and you don't live in the gorge or Perth.
I call DW boards, the "guaranteed to get a ride board", here in Florida we get a lot of 8-14mph days, and the biggest wing I need is a 5.5 with a 7' x 20.5" board (I weigh 88kg).
This was Sunday an average of 12mph, had a blast.
Almost 100% of the parawing foilers are on them here, they are big into upwind/downwind.
Select to expand quoteCoreAS said..
I call DW boards, the "guaranteed to get a ride board", here in Florida we get a lot of 8-14mph days, and the biggest wing I need is a 5.5 with a 7' x 20.5" board (I weigh 88kg).
This was Sunday an average of 12mph, had a blast.
You put your boom on backwards....
Select to expand quotegorgesailor said..CoreAS said..
I call DW boards, the "guaranteed to get a ride board", here in Florida we get a lot of 8-14mph days, and the biggest wing I need is a 5.5 with a 7' x 20.5" board (I weigh 88kg).
This was Sunday an average of 12mph, had a blast.
You put your boom on backwards....
Thats called rushing to get on the water 
.....but you know what, the uni handle boom actually felt pretty good that way!
Select to expand quoteAnyBoard said..
Long and skinny is the only way if its SUP dw and you don't live in the gorge or Perth.
I'm in the Gorge and I just ordered an 8'6 x 17 
Select to expand quotezarb said..AnyBoard said..
Long and skinny is the only way if its SUP dw and you don't live in the gorge or Perth.
I'm in the Gorge and I just ordered an 8'6 x 17
A Frank/Axis board?
Well I got an Armstrong 8ft 11in x 17.25 in x 108l at a good price having demoed one first. It worked well for me in 15kn choppy lake conditions in the demo, amazingly stable.
It feel It fits my board quiver for sub 8kn windwing along with my Duotone Skybrid 5ft 8in x 22in x 85l and my allround comfort board a JP 6ft 8in x 26in x 96l.
This 8' x 19 127L has gotten me many wing sessions this winter that I'd have missed in the past. Has gotten me back home dry and warm too when the wind dies.
It's also been great for learning parawing, extending the bottom end of my 3M. I'm able to get up in 4M wing winds with a Code 1075R which wouldn't be possible on the mid length.
Select to expand quoteThatspec said..zarb said..AnyBoard said..
Long and skinny is the only way if its SUP dw and you don't live in the gorge or Perth.
I'm in the Gorge and I just ordered an 8'6 x 17
A Frank/Axis board?
A Frank/Frank board. I would have ordered the Axis but I hate the color red... Plus a fully custom from Frank is only a couple of hundred more.
Select to expand quotezarb said..
A Frank/Frank board. I would have ordered the Axis but I hate the color red... Plus a fully custom from Frank is only a couple of hundred more.
Consider me very jealous
