Boards - Wave
[1] Starboard / RRD equal due to strength and quality (and customs of course)
[2] Anything else Cobra top line construction (Cobra also do pissweak on orders of the company
[100] Euro stuff liek F2 and Fanatic etc ... shapes just as good but weak

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] No idea sorry
[2]
[3]

Boards - Graphics
[1] Anything with WHITE rails so easy to repair when dinged.
[2] Anything with a white bottom so it doesn't get to 80deg on the beach!!
[3]

Sails - Wave
[1] Simmer (toughest)
[2] Severne (close, and the free bottle opener is kewl) Ezzy equal second
[3] Anything not Gaastra / North / NP

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] No idea. KA cos they're fast and Aussie I guess
[2]
[3]

Sails - Graphics
[1] All look the same, not big on graphics anyway
[2]
[3]

baldrick said...

Name your Three Favourite Brands not bag the crap out of stuff you have limited current knowlege about.

Isn't that the entire idea of the thread? Read the first post; "name your favorite brands". Seems fairly self explanitory. There is nothing saying you can't also hint at brands you dislike ;)

Boards - Wave (I only have 4 brands of boards, have ridden a fair bit of other stuff but not long enough to comment on it's durability)
[1] RRD - toughest most bomb proof board I own, awesome construction - awesome down the line shape
[2] JP - Have heard lots of bad things about JP over the years, have seen lots of snapped ones, have a pro-ed RWW and seems to be fairly tough. Touch wood. It's a great board though, really good in less than ideal conditions, has really impressed me
[3] F2 - Good board but construction is pretty weak, full carbon - very poor impact resistance (no kevlar)

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1]
[2]
[3]

Boards - Graphics
[1] Tabou without a doubt have the radest looking boards around
[2] RRD
[3] F2? no idea really, no one else really stands out like the other two

Sails - Wave
[1] Ezzy - love em, super strong, love how they sail
[2] North - had norths up till 05 or so, the good old xXx and DrX's, mad sails :D not super strong though
[3] Pryde - Best of the other brands i've had. Not a bad sail but didn't last long, fell apart

Sails - Graphics
[1] North used to look awesome - the Superstar, xXx and DrX were all awesome looking sails I reckon, then they got into this 'white phase' and it all went to ****e.
[2] Pryde - have always looked pretty good
[3] New gaastras look pretty cool

Rad Lad, its just too much to quantify, and I'm a lazy bastard so I'll just put up a couple of generalisations

Boards:
JP
Carbon Art (but I don't have one)

Sails:
Loft
Aerotech

Graphics:
I don't care for graphics

State - Qld

CJW said...

baldrick said...

Name your Three Favourite Brands not bag the crap out of stuff you have limited current knowlege about.

[1] RRD - toughest most bomb proof board I own, awesome construction - awesome down the line shape

...if anyone rolls a hand grenade in front of you, simply grab an RRD board and smother the bomb with it, ...no harm will come to you what so ever and you will just walk away to the beach,rig up, and go for a sail on your rrd.

Boards - Wave
[1] the only wave we get here is when you saying goodbye to someone
[2]
[3]

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1]Tabou Manta...limited use on them but they are plug and play best boards ive ever used
[2]Fanatic Falcons...great boards as well
[3]Starboard isonics

Boards - Graphics
[1]Tabou
[2]RRD
[3]windsurfer one design

Sails - Wave
[1]don't use them
[2]
[3]

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1]The Loft Blades, great sails hands down best value high performance sail on the market.
[2]North Warp F2008 nice sails but very very pricey
[3]Neil Pryde RS Racing proven designs but $3,500 for 1 complete rig??

Sails - Graphics
[1]hot sails
[2]Point 7
[3]Vandal

russh said...
[100] anything by starboard that weighs 8kgs or more and said to be 6.7kgs (my EVo included)

Aha! So it isn't just my scales! I was going to raise a thread on this. I still like the carve though.

choco said...

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1]Tabou Manta...limited use on them but they are plug and play best boards ive ever used
[2]Fanatic Falcons...great boards as well
[3]Starboard isonics

Boards - Graphics
[1]Tabou
[2]RRD
[3]windsurfer one design

Glad you like that board choco.

Boards - Wave
[1] The one under my feet
[2] The one in my car
[3] The one in my shed

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] The one under my feet
[2] The one in my car
[3] The one in my shed

Boards - Graphics
[1] Graphics secondary to performance
[2]
[3]

Sails - Wave
[1] The one on my mast
[2] The ones in my car
[3] The ones in my shed

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] The one on my mast
[2] The ones in my car
[3] The ones in my shed

Sails - Graphics
[1] Graphics secondary to performance
[2]
[3]

Boards - Wave
[1] JP - Twinser
[2] Quattro
[3] Tabou

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] JP - Freestyle 99
[2] Tabou
[3] Mistral

Boards - Graphics
[1] JP
[2] Quattro
[3] Angulo

Sails - Wave
[1] NP - Combats
[2] Gaastra
[3] Ezzy

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] NP
[2] Gaastra
[3] Naish

Sails - Graphics
[1] NP - It's the brand the others copy (except North)
[2] Gaastra
[3] Naish

fill all ur spare footstrap screw holes with soapy water, place board in sun 4 a few mins, open vent, if you see bubbles, thats where the extra weight problem is, seen it on a few starboards now, inc 2 of mine ,,,, they were both fishs also hapend to one of my deltas

Think I'll just leave it in the shed and get a fanatic Allwave or a nice RRD wave cult.

Boards - Wave
[1]dont use them
[2]
[3]

Boards - Other (Slalom,speed)
[1]carbon art
[2]fanatic
[3]f2

Boards - Graphics
[1]fanatic
[2]starboard
[3]?

Sails - Wave
[1]dont use em
[2]
[3]

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1]northsails
[2]serverne
[3]?

Sails - Graphics
[1]north sails warp f2006
[2]serverne od/code red
[3]

It's funny to hear the descriptions of a board as bomb proof.

I could provide a reasonably accurate list of brands that have snapped in the last few years, and you would get quite a shock ( Yes, even RRD's & Quattros' ). However I value my life , and don't want to blow my cover.

Replace 'bomb proof' with 'extremely resiliant, except when riden by 12 stone gorillas who like to spend most of their time in the air'


This thread gets a three troll rating [}:)][}:)][}:)]

Mobydisc said...

You could throw a Bombora board off a four story building and it would still be in one piece after the impact.

And the council would then need to come round and repair the pavement!

I'm no expert but I doubt board weight on the water is as important an issue most most windsurfers think it is compared to the board weight as you carry it down to the water.

I think Boards magazine ran a feature recently where they tested the same shaped boards in different construction methods and doing blind tests where it was impossible to tell which board was which, the heavier boards were preferred over the lighter boards by the testers.

Probably in lighter winds heavier constructions lose out more but once you are up and going weight would be less of an issue.


If Bombora made modern shaped board for around $700 to $800 new, I'd buy them.

Boards - Wave
[1] SSD......Stone Surfboard Designs
[2] Wave Scalple
[3] Your own hand crafted design

Boards - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] Tripple concave into v
[2] OFF SHORE Ocean racing Speed machines
[3]

Boards - Graphics
[1] TATOO Art
[2] CUSTOM (Hand job)
[3] Your own spray blow job

Sails - Wave
[1] Ezzy..... dose it
[2] Simmer Style
[3] Power Sails(Timmy Car)

Sails - Other (Freeride, Slalom, Freestyle, etc)
[1] Pryde / Gastra ............1st Rotating asymetrical foils
[2] Pryde / Gastra.............1st 3 cam sails
[3]

Sails - Graphics
[1] Stickerd up .............or spray painted .
[2] Sail No starting in S/N ..........
[3] Bar code formate is also good ...... 9 300632090686

SORRY HAD TO GO FINS

1Foot ball fin
2Canak anti cavitational fin (one put in front of the main fin ) Thier were some rippers, hand made ones.
3kANGA FIN ....they were something
4 Foil fin (Bands around the out side)
5 Best of all are Hand made ones with objects glassed into them dope leaf ,spiders etc.
I HAD a fin sent to me called the DOLE FINZ made from soft epoxy and flexed something wicked.........loved it ....till one morning after the boards was on its tail. i found it bent close to 45 degrees............it did come back ,the tip snapped in the end. oh well