http://www.kona-windsurfing.com/products/konasup.asp

Interesting tail shape, do you think it would work?

I'ver used one with a sail and they work good. I had a 4.5m sail on it in about 10 to 12kts and it was really good. Did some driving bottom turns and vertical whacks that I haven't done on a SUP. The sail really helped, but it's a differnt sport altogether when you throw a sail on it.

I did seem to nose dive it a bit coming off the top which was annoying/dangerous.
It was handy with the footstraps compared to the Naish I used without straps.

G'day Shiner,

This doesn't really apply to the Kona SUP but is just some observations about the tail shape on other Kona boards.

Here is a video of a guy on a 11-5 Kona windsurf board. The guy is having fun but don't you just want to lean him into a bottom turn!




And also some photos of a very hardy Scandinavian Dan Cavalli surfing a 10-5. Both 10-5 and 11-5 , have very deep step tails.







This photo from SurfingSports web site shows the tail in the 10-5 (yellow board) - looks wild but you don't notice it except that it really turns on a wave.





I have a 10-5 Kona, superb light wind windsurf wave board and it really surf SUP's well but is pretty tippy at 65cm (25.5") wide, the 11-5 is 75 wide. These boards really turn but it's just about impossible to "feel" the tail release when you surf, you can though when you windsurf on them.