A fun board to ride with my sisters. Winging or windsurfing, one board for two sports! When teaching newcomers to windsurfing and winging it hurts less to fall because it is inflatable, but it rides as well as a normal hard board.
Finally a light entry-level board! Easy to pump up and carry to the beach. Excellent to teach people windsurfing. Add the two small side fins and it is great to learn basic wing skills too. It tracks really well! One board = 2 sports – and it rolls into a bag!
The START2 is a fun board to teach friends and family to wing and windsurf on. Using the two side fins makes it easy to learn basic winging skills. For windsurfing I think it is fun to ride it with my two little sisters.
The board any school needs! One board for learning windsurfing and the first winging skills both on the same board is the perfect board for any wind and wing center! I was amazed at how easy the board is to ride! It glides really well and have a lot of stability!
Above all, the Ultra is a super comfortable ride and I feel in control both flying over the chop while searching for a ramp in Pozo, or engaging the rail with full confidence in a bottom turn so I can do the top turn in the critical section.
Separating the fins more on the 2025 Ultra boards gave me much more grip on the board. I can trust it more in the bottom turns and push harder on the top turns without spinning out at the top. Having the side fins more forward really helps to dig the rail in better.
In side-onshore conditions the ULTRA has been my board of choice. It has incredible early planing and its wide tail permits me to keep high speed during onshore riding. The board is also really stable, which helps during the tack and gybe.
The 103 HYPER blew me away with its speed and control. With this new size, it has allowed me to fully access the HYPER’s performance at 90kg!
The HYPER has truly been my favorite wave riding board. I love the fact that its shape permits me to use a bigger board than usual. I always used 78 liters boards but I’m now using the 83 a lot and just ordered an 88, to fully take advantage of light wind wave riding conditions, while at the same time keeping my riding radical thanks to its rocker and thin tail!
The Starboard Compact Rig was fun to develop! We do much of the development sailing on our knees to truly sense what a kid does in terms of size and leverage.
We worked with a fishing rod specialist to come up with a super light, strong and skinny mast for the smaller sizes. The mast sleeve was minimized to avoid any water caught there during uphauling. The bottom area of the sails are extra reinforced as this is where your knee might end up and where the tension is at the highest. The release clip at the mast base has the amazing cap power system, so anyone can attach and release the rig from the mast base.
The Airplane 242 and 255 were a lot of fun for me to test between Aruba, Lanzarote and Thailand, even easy to bring on a plane. They bite into the jibe willingly and also exit well, perhaps because they are only 12 cm thick! When planing along they have a comfortable heel shape and the edge release works well for getting up to speed. They have a solid feel from its basalt rail bands engineered from volcanic rocks. The added nose rocker helps me fly over all the chop!