Hi, I am looking for advice what to buy for my first foil and wing board.

I am 70kg and live on the mid north coast NSW. I have had a couple of lessons, able to work the wing and been up flying on both tracks with a big board and a 2050 Armstrong wing.

I am going to buy a new 5m wing as this size seems the best balance between size for learning and getting going in the wind here.

As for the foil and the board I am clueless. I don't know what size of foil to get ( front wing in particular) and how big a board to get. Every one seems to downsize quickly but I wouldn't mind keeping the first board for teaching and using in light wind anyway.

Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, Tom

windsurftom said..
Hi, I am looking for advice what to buy for my first foil and wing board.

I am 70kg and live on the mid north coast NSW. I have had a couple of lessons, able to work the wing and been up flying on both tracks with a big board and a 2050 Armstrong wing.

I am going to buy a new 5m wing as this size seems the best balance between size for learning and getting going in the wind here.

As for the foil and the board I am clueless. I don't know what size of foil to get ( front wing in particular) and how big a board to get. Every one seems to downsize quickly but I wouldn't mind keeping the first board for teaching and using in light wind anyway.

Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, Tom

I reckon something around 85 Litres not to big and not to small.

If there is a good used market in your area, that might be the way to go. Try asking the regulars at the local wing spot what gear they like.

Thanks for the replies. Keensailor is saying round what I thought around 100 litres and 1800 wing. I will have a look and see what's going secondhand. I like the look of Armstrong foils and the SMIK wings but not really fussed on which board

Depend a lot of you skill and what you want to do in future. It's not everyone that get rid of their big foil, I still have my 1800 to dockstart.Even bigger boards, if you want to go into wave foiling while winging, you could need something big enough to go in very choppy water, taxi out of the back traversing white water in low wind and you need some positive volume for sure. The difference from 110L vs 85L is not day and night for your weight, it will still be a big board that you will have fun on it, you could jump with them but it's not the one that you gonna really like for jumping and carving hard...it needs to be in the - volume in my opinion. If you don't have big feet, check the width of the board, too wide you will loose some feeling...I prefer a 5'5 for 90L over 5'...if the width is less.