Hi Y'all,
Anyone ridden / tested the JP Magic Ride.
It looks like my type of board to maybe make it easier for me to start doing gybe turns.
I am currently riding a JP Freestyle Wave 112lt.
I would be using Pryde Fusion sails, 5.5 and 6.1
I weigh about 78 kg.
Not sure if the 105 ? Or the 118 lt model would be best ?
Any feed back / comments / advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Unless talking about non planing gybes, skipd you talking are about carve gybes I presume?

You should be able to flare gybe your current board with your weight with some practice (maybe a handful of sessions practice), but for non-planing stuff, the bigger the board, the better IMO.

Skipd. For most sailors, learning to gybe takes a very long time. It took me a season just to getting over the "oh my god, I'm going to die" experience of carving down wind over powered (although I was learning at that stage and getting my gear and rigging in order as well). I'm going through this process again learning my duck gybe. So, don't be put off with the goal and accept it's going to be a few years if you're an average windsurfer like me.

I would say 'carve gybe easiness' is more a factor of rail shape and rocker than the thickness to width ratio. IE wide for it's volume does not necessarily make for an easy going board (are Formula boards easy to learn a carve gybe on??)

We had easy gybing boards before and after the wide board revolution.

For learning carve gybes a FSW is THE SHAZZIZLE
Close second is a loose freeride or "3style"

Same as "wave-slalom" boards 20yrs ago were better than wave or slalom.

He needs a bigger board to learn to gybe on, and then after that to learn planing gybes he is already on the best there is. Like jn1 said - over a long time....

Hi Skipd,
I have a Magic ride 104 CArbon.

They have like every board I ever owned have +'s and -'s. What they do incredible well, is plan away on the lighter side of the wind range. You can use a sail one meter smaller than you normally would. Ie when I sail a 7.2 on a conventional 111ltr board I could use a 6.1 on the magic ride. 85- 89 kg rider. This could be attributed to the width 68 cm. It really is brilliant in this area. I have had a quick run with a 6.7 Fusion on it as well and it felt very balanced. ( didn't get much of a chance to test the bottom end with this sail as the wind increased )

Gybing is super easy, I haven't thought about it at all while riding it which would indicate there is nothing to notice; it just goes around nicely like any other board. Also great for a fast tacks.

The only difficulty I have is at the extreme top end of the board range. So when 6.1 Fusion is very overpowered ( should be on 5.6 and wave board ) the width then became an issue. In the chop it was starting to get a little unpredictable. The same conditions with a conventional 111 would have been very difficult.

In short it behaves like a 110-120 ltr conventional board while having a much lighter and smaller board feel for the same wind range.

I just changed a JP FSW 111 2013 for this board. They are very different. I think you would find the magic ride easier to learn gybes etc. Later on as you get more advanced get a FSW 84 or Wave 74 for your smaller rigs. Keep the magic ride for the lighter days. You live in WA.

Hope that helps.
B.

Santa came early and his Elves made a sweet JP Fun ride.
Got a good trade for FSW and some sweet talking to the better half.
First sail today, first run first attempt to gybe I nailed it. must have been a fluke as I only did the one but got pretty close on a few others.
The board went sweet, cruising through the lulls at Melville and so easy to get planing , turn and up wind. Super stable, spun out once but it recovered quickly and kept going.
Just as a note I got the 118 sailing with 6.1 sail, 40 free ride fin, my Sensai took it it out with a 7.1 I think and enjoyed.
Will try to get a 35 free ride fin.
All in all Totally stoked

Hey Roar, was that a medal you wanted or a chest to pin it to,

While on this topic, I'm really struggling to do a good laydown gybe on my fanatic hawk 120 lt. I used to sail and still have my sputnik 270 and remember doing some really nice lay down gybes on it years ago. Are these newer shorter boards a lot harder to lay down or is it the extended break I had off sailing combined with old age to blame?

Reading back over my post and I said Santa brought a Fun ride, Doh, I meant JP Magic Ride !!

Hi Y'all again, well I am still having fun on the Magic Ride. I have had a couple of really good sessions lately and have sailed longer . I bought a second hand 7.7 Hellcat sail which has been totally awesome. I am doing a couple of gybes a session now and even pulled off a couple of dodgy tacks.
I am having one issue which seems to be a reoccurring one for me. SPINOUT, I think it must happen to me a couple of times each sail, is this normal or do people manage to sail with no spin out ? I am sure it's not the board but operator error as my FSW did it as well.
If anyone has any insight into this issue I would read with great interest .

To follow up on what Haggar said you could be pushing too hard with your back foot on a fin that is the correct size to try to get upwind. Or your fin might be too small for the sail size.

Thanks guys, I have increased sail size considerably so may a fin upgrade may be in order.
Aahh , any way good tip on fin