JP Australia 2011

JP Australia 2011 Single Thruster :



Robby Swift :


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...so is it a single, or a thruster, or a single/thruster convertible?

graphics are pure sh!t i recon! not that i'd buy a board because of graphics, but still you want your board to atleast look ok!

www.windsurfing44.com/matos/JP_Australia/2011/JP_Australia_2011_Super_Light_Wind_90_en.pdf

Interesting article as I was just wondering what is the concept difference between my 160L Fanatic Shark Freeride and an equivalent Formula board.
It addresses it a bit but not completely...

Antoine Albeau and Micah Buzianis in action with the JP Australia Super Light Wind 90 V154 Pro et Gold Editions :





Pics Thorsten Indra / www.jp-australia.com

So, you getting one Elmo?
I am seriously thinking about it but hate the Blue! Looks like it has an assocoation with the JP funboard range.
PS Rik did a great review...

Gesty
Agree, it's not a new concept, but then again what is, just variations on a theme

Kimba
With the amount of sailing I've racked up this autumn on fatty boombalata gear and looking at how that beastie goes it would be a brilliant addition to the collection unfortunately foods taking a priority at present

Loved the ability to pick a direction and just go

@westozwind - maybe the marketting team can call JP a green company. they recycle designs.

@panda - reality is either will work.

problem with 70cm fins on standard slalom boards is they have a very short wind range as you can't hold the rail down.

so wide boards are better, they handle the deeper fins better across a wider wind range and have a better drag ratio for the planing surface.

@emo - i'm good with recycling but recycling and saying it's new is false advertising

I don't see the rehash of older course boards at all. This board is all about planing and reaching with smaller sails than you'd normally use on course racing kit. What course board from any period doesn't crave more power and still loves to beam reach as the wind gets up.

If anything it's it's closer to the mega lightwind I-Sonic than anything else as it also focuses on planing and reaching.

so it's a new concept for JP then.

most of the other manufacturers and especially starboard have been doing it for over 10 years. a lot of us use or have used formula boards as light wind slalom boards with sails from 7-8.5m in broad reaching conditions. looking at the starboard website their early formula boards were 85-95cm wide with narrow tails. as i mentioned above.

it was only in 2002 and onweards that the board got 1m wide and very wide tails.

Geez people, watch the vid. This board sits between a freeride board, slalom board and formula board.

VS formula- it is designed to comfortably reach across the wind as well as up and downwind. It isn't designed to use such big fins, has straps in more inboard position and has V throughout. You dont require deep water ports to land and launch from

VS slalom- technically slalom boards end at 85 wide. If there is a slalom series that allows the isonic in fine. The JP is designed to be more user friendly again with longer rocker, V throughout and straps slightly more in board. I dont know if Rik's comment that it goes upwind better than a slalom is true- maybe vs a 85 wide slalom since it can carry a little bigger fin and has longer waterline than most. Alot of the bigger slaloms at the moment aren't that nice to gybe- some you can get up onto the rail, some prefer to be gybed very flat. The slalom still has to have some compromise in range- ie they would all be very similar speed in 8-10knots but at 15knots the slalom will be pulling ahead whereas the JP can focus purely on light wind performance.

VS freeride- slightly better performance on all points. I think Rik should have maybe tried this with a big freeride fin also, but most people can happily use a big slalom fin in 10knots and it really does give the best compromise.

As a concept I think it does sit pretty much on it's own in the market, it is nothing like course/early formula boards which were all pretty unforgiving and ** to gybe. Comparing with starboard it seems somewhere in between the big isonic and the GO.

For 10knot conditions where you aren't looking to race and without having tried it, it seems this would be the ideal board. Maybe it's cross marketing also with a board that is designed to match the light wind freeride sails available at the moment.

No. Read what I said. The big difference lies in it's intent.

All the boards you want to compare it to are pure course racing boards designed to go up and down wind almost solely and as a result they are compromised doing anything else. This board was built very clearly for planing, reaching and super light wind blasting for guys who don't necessarily have racing in mind.

One nice aspect as opposed to most course/formula boards should be the gybing. This board sounds like it gybes pretty nicely, holding good speed through a turn in bugger all wind. To do this on a formula board from any time in the last decade takes a bucket load of skill.

I'll be on it in a bit over 2 weeks and will talk from experience then. Not that Maui will be the best place to try light wind kit.

^ ok, well lets compare it to a freeride boards then.

the starboard futura 2008 model.

155 249.0 85.0 59.5

exocet sting

158 259 85

so i fail to see how this is a new concept. and for the record, i am not questioning that JP make great boards and from the oones i've used they all gybed very well.

but, there is no doubt in my opinion this is not a new concept. so why call it one. how are consumers supposed to trust manufacturers that easily say stuff to sell boards that isn't true

and for the record the early wide formula boards gybed very well when they weren't used with a 10m sail.

of course. it is an opinion after all.

Hmmm... marketing marketing marketing! Afterall it's a board with 4 footstraps and has to be different and better than others to be sold!!!

Seems very similar to the GO Board in a lot of ways...

The GO Board was in essence a de-tuned formula board which was more forgiving to ride, was great to ride on all points of wind and was suprisingly quick!

Ok, so the footstraps on this thing are a bit more in board, but it's hardly a revolutionary concept.