Wave board for strong winds

I am thinking of getting a wave board for stronger winds. I have not sailed for a while (been Overseas for a while). I have my current 120 odd litre board, but want a waveboard for stronger days. I just think a waveboard will sit in the water nicer in stronger winds. I weigh a light 105kg, so I am thinking something around 90-100lt or so. Its a hard decision, especially these days with single, double, tri and quad fin.

Is single fin still better for just blasting around ? I see double, tri and quad fin would only be good for where sharp turning (waveriding) is important.

Stewie

Yeah, you are prob right.

I'll now do some research on 90-100lt B&J board.

thanks Mark, send me a pm if you are ever around Melbourne, and I'll give some of my finest fish and chips.

Stewie

Thanks Mark

Will look into it.

Where've you been Stewie? Has uncle Frank been taking liberties?

Hi Guys

I just dont get much time to spend on the computer anymore, too busy with work. I still windsurf quite a lot.

I try to check the forums regularly, but sometime you just get distracted with other stuff (work), and sometimes with ladies.

Stewie

Waveboards are not the best as they are always hunting for a path thru the chop (due to rocker - they always want to turn) and a lot of the new school boards don't have vee anymore so they slap pretty hard on chop.

With a FSW most cases they have vee (or other design features) to handle the chop better - like more freeride oriented shape ratehr then looseness at all costs.

For eg in 35kn with short period low chop (12") where it was peaky and all over the place I could only sail my EVO 80L for about 20mins before the pounding made my knees hurt. I could take my RRD FSW 101L out for a couple of hours.

Also, being faster and generally wider a FSW jumps a lot better - height and ease of planing out of jumps so you get the next jump quicker.

Just like you would not expect a freeride to be good at waveriding, I dunno why people buy waveboards for high wind B&J which is mostly back n forth with some jumps. They'd be better served by a small FSW (which is kinda like a very loose freeride really)

IMHO

I agree 100% that wave gear is crap for freeride. Small freeride gear seems hard to find though, choices seem to be slalom or wave I hate wave sails for B & J as the on/off thing hurts my puny shoulders and don't want a cam sail. I never thought of FSW as a choice for freeriding though, good to know.