Australia is very important in the world of Raceboard, LOL, (no seriously the RB world title in Brisbane was great and it continues) I think it is time we had our own designed board. Am I right?

Currently there are two designs in production from the one facility and both are great options. Also a Spanish hull is coming which will also be a great board to sail. Can Australia produce something better??

If we approached it as a non for profit community project would this be a helpful or not? Or is this a communist idea deemed to fail approach! Ha Ha. Would the community be decisive enough?

I think we can all agree we want a underweight board we add weight to bring it to 14kg class rule. We all can agree we want a well constructed board that can sailed over the regatta and for years to come.

The hard part is the design direction desicions.
Do we;

Build a similar board but lighter and stronger?
Or
Keep innovating and leading in design rather than following and try new concepts?

I am currently putting a Race Board sail into production so I don't want to go into board production as well. I favor a community approach. I also favor searching for a game changer design rather that follow along from current designs. A more risky approach I know but then this could open up to a design competition which I reckon would be a lot of fun for all of us? At the end of the day its about getting together and enjoying the journey

Anyway before I get too carried away is anybody interested in a new Raceboard hull for the Aussie community and for the World Raceboarders? ISAF require minimum production run of 10 initially. Plus each design entrant I guess would have to fund their own prototype so it's a big commitment!! (maybe we just need to make two boards, a similar board and a out there board). Considering we currently have excellent boards to simply and easily buy is there actually any passionate guys and girls out there interested?

regards Justin