Hi all, I've been sailing all my life, windsurfed a lot back in the 80's & 90's, did a few years of Formula 10 years ago and have now got back into windsurfing racing an LT.

My question is how bad does a foil have to be to be unusable? The price of foils is dropping into the region where it's not prohibitive to give it a go and see if I like it. I'm talking light to moderate cruising. I still have an older slalom board in the roof of the garage and a few smaller race sails in the rack. I'm not interested in huge cammed race sails, they're why I got out of formula.

Anyway, are the early, cheaper foils just diabolical to use? Will using an early foil actually be worse as a test platform than a more expensive newer model?

Appreciate your thoughts