Am looking to travel to a speed event to give it a go, but travel practicalities mean it would be easier to only take my new twin cam quiver but not my newish boards (100L + 125L Futuras).

A local can kindly lend me the same boards, but they are 10+ years older. If I bring my new carbon fins and the decent modern sails, am I going to feel OK going overpowered in a straight line on flattish water ?

Ability : decent intermediate. Seems to me at my level I probably wont feel much difference, just happy to rig big and hang on - and jibing not a tactical issue.

Its for the fun and thills not the extra knot, and am given the OK to smash the boards noses.

Or will I regret not taking my own ?

Jasonwave said..
Am looking to travel to a speed event to give it a go, but travel practicalities mean it would be easier to only take my new twin cam quiver but not my newish boards (100L + 125L Futuras).

A local can kindly lend me the same boards, but they are 10+ years older. If I bring my new carbon fins and the decent modern sails, am I going to feel OK going overpowered in a straight line on flattish water ?

Ability : decent intermediate. Seems to me at my level I probably wont feel much difference, just happy to rig big and hang on - and jibing not a tactical issue.

Its for the fun and thills not the extra knot, and am given the OK to smash the boards noses.

Or will I regret not taking my own ?

Not at all, my speed board is a 2010 JP 56. It works fine.

yes - 10yrs older than what Futuras...? That is the key. I know you said newish but.....

If we are talking say 2008-9 onwards the speed boards are going to be good. So little has changed in speed boards in the last 10-12yrs that it is irrelevant to you at the level you describe. They will eat your Futura for breakie on a speed course anyway.

The most highly regarded small fast slalom board that so many people report as sooo gooooood was a 2015 model. A few mates still tell me their open water PB is still that board.


But boards 10+ (how much plus lol) older than a 10yr old Futura wellllll might be a different story ....

Offered for use is a Futura 101L from 2005.
If it blows too much for a 125L board I will rig this one with a Turbo 5,5 or an NCX 6,0 and a Select Rhino Pro 32 fin.

I cannot bring my Futura 100L from 2022.

In a straight line on flat water - thoights ?

Thanks