Re: fun fun fun

From: William Light (light@nuc.berkeley.edu-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 18:42:25 PDT


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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:42:25 -0700
From: William Light <light@nuc.berkeley.edu-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: Re: fun fun fun
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At 190 lbs. I'm really enjoying this year an 8'10" wave board, usually
with a 6.5 sail
and a 32cm wave slalom type fin. It's very slashy. Not about speed. In
fact going fast
wound up with a 5.5 is not so much fun. Always easy and fun to slash
with though.
It's bigger than the other boards mentioned at about 108L. 60cm wide. I
think it's
really great for getting wave board style fun in moderate winds and for
safety and
comfort exploring but the ride gets a little rough going fast in high
wind. I usually
end up slashing to kill speed. It's a new Kinetic, I think the only one
like it that they
shipped to the mainland this year.

Late Sunday at Berkeley was pretty windy. I kind of wanted the wave
board but
not as much as I wanted for my wife to have fun and to learn footstraps!!!
It seems like a pretty good board for her as well.

-Brad

rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis.com wrote:

> Mike Zajicek made me an 8'6" almost 24" wide freestyle board with about 92
> liters. This board jibes easier than any I've ever ridden, and I've ridden
> a lot of boards (50 maybe). The rocker is perfect--it planes without the
> drag I was experiencing with my JP freestyle of about the same volume and
> shape. (My JP had to be powered to oblivion before the drag coeficient was
> acceptable to me.) I've had the Mike's Lab out in some nasty water with my
> 4.2 and it did just fine. I agree that the fin makes a big difference. I
> think you give up a lot of speed when you go wide (board width) but speed is
> not what freestyle is about.
>
> Cindoll
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Booker C. Bense [mailto:bbense@networking.stanford.edu-DeleteThis.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:38 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
> Subject: Re: fun fun fun
>
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Erik Eiseman wrote:
>
>> Wanted to get off the topic of breakdowns and hit a few randoms.
>>
>>
>> 4. Does anyone here sail with a 100L JP board? Can a 100L board be
>> at all slashy? I would love to sail my 85L (I'm 180lbs.)board but
>> need more. My 95L BIC sucks. This is a good topic worth
>> discussing. All those 85L bay sailing boards are great but the
>> ability to explore is somewhat lost.
>>
>
> - Well, a 100l board is never going to slash like an 85L board, but I
> think the fin has more to do with it than the volume. It's hard to
> find a fin that will both get you upwind and slash when you get there.
> Also, the earlier a fin planes the less slashy it tends to be. I have
> a really old fat 11' Dill fin that I retrofitted for a tuttle box. It
> goes upwind pretty well, is really slashy, but very slow compared more
> modern fins.
>
> - The other variable is board design, this has changed alot in recent
> years. It used to be that anything above 100L was "slalom-like"
> and focused on speed rather than slash. I'd really like to
> try some of the new "freestyle" boards in the 100L-110L range.
> I demo'd the ASD Mutant a few years ago and with the right fin
> that could be a pretty "slashy" board, but it was still a compromise
> between turning and speed. I think you could make a 100l board
> that would slash very well, but I don't know if anybody is
> making one.
>
> - Booker C. Bense
>
>
>



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