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Long range sea / ocean board for novice SUPer

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Created by Streichholz > 9 months ago, 18 Oct 2016
Streichholz
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18 Oct 2016 5:15PM
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Hi!

I am 42 Years old male, 1.86cm tall and ~83kg, very recently discovered SUP sport and fell in love with it. After trying SUP with rental board in Sardinia / Italy for ~3 hours I immediately bought myself used Fanatic Fly Air Premium board and spent about 20 hours on it, up until almost nothing could drop me off it anymore. Fun did not last long though as the board suddenly lost it's internal structure and deformed (nope, it was not over pressurized, but heavily used in school I bought it from). Luckily I was not on it. I started looking around for quick replacement and found a used Coreban Fusion 9.0 classic wood edition nearby that was pretty much NOT the board I needed but I could not resist the beauty and bought it. What followed was 3 weeks of pain / shame and muscle ache. I went from instantly falling off it in quiet water to ~8km cruises in moderately choppy waters. Tried to catch some waves too, without success for now.

So, my needs for surf board are covered by Fusion now, what I need is a good board for taking daily 2-3 hours rides along the coast and potential longer (20-30km) exploration trips, board that would offer me speed in quiet water, comfortable stability in chop and reasonable up/cross wind performance.

I am quite overwhelmed by options and narrowed things down to:

Coreban 14" Dart, Naish Glide GTW 14" or Sunova faast ocean / search.

What would you advise? Does the weight of the Naish Glide GTW 14" really matters in the water? Will 14x29" Sunova faast be stable enough?

Thank you!

HumanCartoon
VIC, 2098 posts
19 Oct 2016 11:39AM
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If you are referring to the 14' x 30" Naish glide, it is a VERY big board and at your weight I would suggest much more board than you need (I own one and like it a lot but I am many, many kg heavier than you)

The 14' x 29" Glide has significantly less volume and is a delightful board - it would be a much better fit for you. It has a lovely glide for flat water paddling, handles chop well and does very well downwinding.

The 14' Dart is by design a board much more oriented towards downwinding - it's OK in flat water but the Glide is better for that.

I can't comment on the Sunova boards, but at your weight 14 x 29 should be plenty stable (you may even consider going narrower)



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