It seems the competitiveness of many board brands is bigger than ever! Choose your board that suits your style! They can all win so go for it! Yeww

Steve Charles said...
A lot of them these days are sailing with the same board and sails. Eg North/Fanatic, GA/Tabou and of course Starboard/Severne.

Yes there is super strong board/sail alliances and some even owned by its partner. But many combine for testing and development purposes trying to get an edge for ultimate relationship between the board and sail.

There is some board and sail brands I believe don't match well, but generally most interchange very nicely.

Other partners are rrd/neilpryde and Patrik/loft

I think 99 Novenove are with avanti, since finian is heavily involved with both.

It seems point 7 sails don't have a true alliance, possibly a smart move?

mathew said...

izymiester said..
It seems point 7 sails don't have a true alliance, possibly a smart move?

I think you may have almost crossed into a headline...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Breaking news?

Is it more about the riders then what they are riding

The only improvement I can see in sails over the last few years is with cam rotation.

The earlier Severne Reflex sails--- the cam rotation was average at best. Have heard the newer ones rotate great.

Doubt there's any improvement though in top speed. From my testing of newer / older sails--- they are all identical in speed.

The best rotating slalom / race sail I've tried is the Maui. The worst is that famous brand name....but I'm not going there.

It is nice to see a real mix up in the placings so far this year.