Board Advice

[gpc2]

Okay I see its the new X-Move.

[jingebritsen]

what exocet found out was too much rocker in the really short and wide boards do is force sailors to stay lit to execute turns and stuff. i was happiest in the waves with the largest x-cross with side off and an 8.0 sail. huge sail with tube battens receipt for disaster, long term. x-cross 100 suffered least from this because it was smallest.

formula for frustration in light winds. short length, drawn in tail, super wide width, and lotsa rocker. better to have longer, less rocker. seen it time and again.

[scargo]

gpc -- I'm jealous, been to Cabarete at least a dozen times, but have to miss this year. Anyway, I always end up going back to the SB Kodes, which Vela has stocked for a long time. Those boards just seem to synch up with the conditions there.

[cgoudie1]

Kodes are the Swiss army knife of boards. I've ridden them on Maui
and had fun, and you see plenty of them in the Gorge. Two dramatically
different venues.

Sounds like they work fine in flat water too.

-Craig

[isobars]

Windance usually gets in dozens of used Kodes in the spring, but maybe they got outbid this year. We should soon know.

[scargo]

Well, I wouldn't call Cabarete "flat water," at least not in February-March, which is when I usually go. It's actually quite a bit like Maui, a comment you hear a lot down there, including from professional sailors. A reef on the outside for wavesailing, and flatter on the inside, but still bumpy (at least in the winter) because of the water sloshing around. Agree with the swiss army knife comment, though, which is probably why the Kode works well in the varied Cabarete conditions. It's so fast that I tend to forget that it's a wave board (obviously, it's kind of a hybrid). I've tried other offering down there, but keep returning to the Kode.