Has anyone had any experience with Bic Techno boards - positive or negative. Im considerning a BIC techno small 118l for general sailing Thanks TN

The construction of the old blue ones (with the prominent nose flip) was second rate. The mast track was extruded aluminium pressed into the deck with not a lot holding it in there. They used to pop out. They had that dodgy Trim box fin box. I don't think anyone uses that any more. There was nothing much wrong with their shape though - pretty slalomy, more fast than slow but handled nicely in choppy water. The more recent ones, (and I think the T small was more recent), had conventional construction and a tuttle box I think.

i agree - the principle behind the bic trim box is good, but the fins are getting a bit hard to find lately

G'day,

I had one of these on demo for almost a season and did a review on it
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9203

I found it a good GP board, solid build and can handle punishment.

It was easy on flat water, so much so that my first gybe was a high speed without the use of footstraps (took me by surprise on the first run).

I even used it for seriously light wind wave sailing, had it out in head plus, the only compensation you have to make is to have the back foot out, it's not going to rip up a wave like a wave board (more like a mal) but at least it will get you out.

on the Techno II which would most likely be the one you are looking at, the fin box is deep tuttle (going by memory) which will also fita standard tuttle box fin, I ran mine with a 30cm weed fin.

It wasn't as light as a carbon board but then you don't have to worry about breaking it easily either.

all in all I had fun with one of these

Alby