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isobars
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| geffert wrote: | | One other board that is pretty interesting (if the name does not scare you away) is the Hifly Madd twin fin ... If you not adverse to the Hifly name (most people think cheap beginner boards, but their performance boards are outstanding), then you can demo these too. |
I once spent a long day, long ago, comparing a HiFly Radical RX with what I was told was the best-selling WS board on the planet at the time, the Tiga Wave 257. Both were plastic and intended for similar conditions. I swapped them back and forth frequently for head-to-head comparisons in a variety of wind and terrain conditions. Bottom line: the HiFly edged out the venerable Tiga by a small but noticeable margin in every regard, including speed, comfort in chop, planing, turning, jumping, and forgiveness, and the HiFly list price was about 40% cheaper than the Tiga. I had my choice of either board free, and chose the HiFly. It took a sustained windstorm, a broken universal joint, and two nights in downwind shoreline rocks to destroy it years later. I've respected the HiFly marque ever since, and have had that reinforced by some expert sailors regarding much more recent HiFlys.
No aversion here.
Mike \m/ |
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boggsman1
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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If you're going to be in HR, go Demo a 103ltr Real Wind Fish, its a dream light wind board. If you're sailing Crissy in a flood and the rollers start gaining size you will be able to slash around with the Big Fish, and slog home.
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koogzah
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boggsman1
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Just toss me and koogzah a little side vig for brokereing your ride.
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tomg
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But regarding volume and the quest for one board that "does it all". I went down to Baja this last winter and got to sail a bunch of different newish boards and rigs. Discovered that there are now indeed a bunch of higher volume "short boards" that seem to do it all - By gosh its not just magazine hype! So I need about 100l to float me back to shore and I sailed JPs and Naish boards in the 100 liter range and they were just as lively as my "little" 85l back home. Of course the lengths are now all about the same, its in the width and thickness. I also sailed some 80 liter boards down there but they seemed almost too twichy compared to the "big" boards.
I weigh 165lbs and have two boards: a 85 liter Mistral Flow which is my "high wind" B&J board, and a 115l JP XCross which is my "light wind" ie floaty board.
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