Received: from zonker-fddi.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA18512; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:58:14 -0700 Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by zonker.hpl.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA05548; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:58:09 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:58:09 -0700 From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9510272058.AA05548@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: recommendations for light wind board
> Does anyone out there have any recommendations for a big slalom board?
> I'm thinking about a cheater that will add range in light winds.
> I'm 6' 240lbs and currently use a 9' CFX.
For your size, I'd look for a 9'4-9'6 or so. CFX does make one. Also, I
can't say about the current CFX shapes, but my '95 ASD Course Slalom is
dramatically faster and quicker to plane than my '92 9'0 CFX was. For
light air, I think a newish course-slalom board (fat tail, thin nose,
mast track way back) seems to be a good choice.
Note that these boards are not always the easiest to sail - I've gone
over the handlebars more in the first 4 sessions with this board than I
did in the previous year. But I'm getting better at it (avoiding
catapults, not just getting better at catapulting :-).
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"Windsurfing is so addictive because it's like sex: you don't know when
you will get it, and then you don't know how good it will be."
-- Randy Johnson
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