Was having a look on ebay and saw that these booms were on sail for $130. Very cheap, so you have to ask questions! Has anyone bought and used one of these booms? Feedback?

They are not cheap, they are the 'right price'.

Regards,
Harrow.

Call me a symantic reactionary but to me "cheap" means "inexpensive".
"Right price" is a desperate sellers work-around to avoid the possible confusion or ambiguity caused by etomological drift in the vernacular use of "cheap". After all he doesent want you to think he's selling rubbish.

Just another small example of why I object to the gratuitous misuse of words. As a matter of interest there's another good example in the Building Act of Australia. In that document lavitories designed for the use of either gender are termed "unisex". On the face of it that word means "one gender", which pretty much goes without saying if you are talking about public dunnies. However what it really means is "both genders". A more appropriate term I would suggest would be "omnisex" or "ambisex". What moron put that in the BCA.

If this boom is of equivalent quality to most other booms priced at over three times then I am certainly interested. I like this concept of "right price". Then what would be the right price for boards now days. AT $2000 - $2500 for a board and from what I heard the other day(from someone who owns a windsurfing retail outlet), board prices for 2007 are about to become even more expensive (or is that even more the "right price"??).

The old boom issue of what can stand up to the punishments the best has been around for years. I have an old Hydodynamics boom (blue one). I have heard many stories of people going through one or two of these in a season (before then moving onto another brand). Mine is still going strong (touch wood) and I dont know if its because I wash it after every sail and this minimises any corrosive weaknesses or if its just luck of the draw.

Nebbian, how do you find the ends of the Loft boom - mast and sail leach? ie. quality of mast attachment and ease of tieing off at the leach end.

Hi,

I have a prolimit and a sunshine boom, both new as of last season, also have some older booms. The prolimit and the sunshine both very similar, in fact the boom ends are identicle, even the head section is near the same. I guess what I am getting at is, perhaps there is little difference between boom manufacturers?

Seems that they just source the individual components from the same wholesalers? From the pics Ive seen on the net of some other brands the compontents all look like they are from moulds just about.

Got the loft boom, as it said right price, right product.
Other manufacturers cant justify price, no matter what twaddle they trot out to try justifying. it just doesn’t add up.
Maybe the professional sailors competing, find the 1%'ers in the pricier item is justified, and they get that little edge over competitors. The general user struggles to find difference.
Loft boom. Good price, Good product, Good dealer, who supports his product.

Further to some of the comments here, I have a couple of Gun sails and a Loft boom and have no complaints. I prefer the loft boom to my Pryde carbon wave boom - so much easier to attach to the mast and it doesn't slip. As for the sails, the quality of the Gun wavesails is great for the price you pay and they look the goods too.

About the Loft booms, I got the wave one, made of aluminium, and bent one side of it after one month of (heavy) use in mauritius this july... Its the first boom i've bought new, is this normal (I've jumped and looped lots)?
Other than that its easy to use thats for sure.

What are people doing when they break a boom? Going over the falls?

Yeah or if you try loops with the harness hooked in, when landing that makes huge pressure !