Is it just my imagination, or are the JP boards about $300-$400 dearer than all the others. That's what it seemed when I was looking for my new board. Why is it so?

Any coincidence that the JP catalog features all NP sails, also seemingly dearer than most others?

Top class boards in most brands are $2500 & 3000 for formulas.
Starboard sonic $2500
Fanatic falcon $2500
Exocet turbo boost II $2500
JP slalom $2500

Say it with a french accent...
Exocet sell the vaste majority of their boards in France.
Somewhere in France a francophil equivalent of Haircut is saying, in french of course, "How could toyota call their 2 seater a MR2" (pronounced merde in french and meaning ** in english). Broaden your horizons haircut..I can think of many boards with worse names and I bet it never stopped anyone (apart from you maybe) buying a board they liked the look of.

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Originally posted by yoyo

Broaden your horizons haircut..I can think of many boards with worse names and I bet it never stopped anyone (apart from you maybe) buying a board they liked the look of.

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do i detect an owner of a turbo boost come on, come out of the closet. Does it have an oversized tacho with a yello light that turns on when u reach 40 knots if it does, i'll take one, thank you very much

don't worry, it's all in jest ..... btw, this francophil is having an affair with a tabou

desire, yes thats a shocker

i've seen a board called a vitesse, and i always think of finesse

i can't remember anyone at the train with a turbo boost? unless it was someone like the shop owners from sunshine coast who came down? isn't there a francophil dealer up that way?

not much imagination there either, hey though you'd think numbers would probably be alot safer than names, especially if you were naming a product to promote overseas

i remember buying chinese computer products like Good Modem, ABC Modem, SuperFast Ram, and Winner Motherboards from computer swapmeets in victoria during the early to mid 90s

i'm secretly hoping tabou release a new range of speed boards called, Nitrous Oxide, Pop-Off Valve, Turbo Timer, Intercooler, Cold Air Intake, and Twin Cam (oops too late, Gaastra and F2 bet'em too it)

I'm waiting for the F2 missile air intake to get a letter-box scoop. Maybe the one from an old XY GTHO would fit?

Dragged out an old "Sailwind Annual", circa '91 .. some names:

Bic: Alto, Allegro, Samba, Bamba Eletric Rock, Astro Rock and .. Metal Rock!

Bombora: Capricorn, South Pacific

F2: Comet Classic, Sunset Slalom, Comet Slalom, Sunset Race, Strato, Lightning Race, Bullit, Sputnick, Orbit, Starlit, Revolution

Tiga: Slalom 265, Slalom 270, Slalom 275 and .. Wave !

Mistral: Equipe, Screamer, Shredder and Aloha

.. and I think vitesse means "speed" in french?

hey justin if need be can i borrow ur board (74) at tabou

One of my first boards was a Bic 'Vivace'....just looked it up and it means "lively" in Italian.!!!

(had a feeling it wouldn't mean "goes round corners")