Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA10695; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:26:59 -0700 Return-Path: <James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from mercury.Sun.COM by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA108012814; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:26:55 -0700 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM by mercury.Sun.COM (Sun.COM) id QAA29935; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:16:49 -0700 Received: from jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (camilla.Eng.Sun.COM) by Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-5.3) id AA00086; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:16:45 -0700 Received: from jalama.Eng.Sun.COM by jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA05834; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:16:28 -0700 Received: by jalama.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6.9/SMI-SVR4) id QAA00315; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:16:25 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:16:25 -0700 From: James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis (Jim Paugh) Message-Id: <199510282316.QAA00315@jalama.Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Re: recommendations for light wind board (keep it light!) X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
By far, the most important aspect of a light air board, is light weight.
A light air board in the 9.6 range shouldn't be jumped anyway, so make it
as light as possible. This is a good reason to stay away from the production
boards and go custom epoxy. I personally don't have a board in this range,
but if I did, it would be a 9'6" nonose, 130 literish, and would weigh in
at 12-14 lbs. This board with a 7.5 sail would have my 220lb butt planing
in about 10kts of wind, easy.
Production boards are "aligned" with sailors that are closer to Jeff's size,
so that us big guys (Jim, Kirk?) have a hard time finding a model that will
do what we want for a given condition (eg light air). Like Kirk pointed out,
we would have to be on something like an Equipe to get an equivalent vol/weight
ratio as most of the smaller guys. Getting a board built custom will deliver
a more fun/competitive shape at a weight that will fly in light air.
~Jim
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