2012 Starboard Flare Wood Carbon

The Starboard Flare Wood Carbon new windsurfing board is for freestyle use.

The Flares are Starboard's dedicated pro-level freestyle boards, designed and backed by the world's best freestyle team.

Freestyle boards require an interesting blend of riding characteristics: they need to be very quick to accelerate and feel compact in both aerial and sliding maneuvers; they need to pop air easily and carve and respond quickly to the rider's moves. Of all boards, they need to be the lightest yet remain extremely strong. To finish off, a freestyle board needs to be perfectly balanced and aggressive enough to invite its riders to go bigger, faster and stronger with confidence while being forgiving enough to help him or her finish each move. The Flares excel in each of these criteria. They also come in more sizes than any other freestyle board range, catering for riders of all ages and all sizes.

• Dedicated freestyle boards
• Most compact and quickest to accelerate
• Designed to generate lots of pop off flat water and be highly responsive with a direct, aggressive feel
• The small freestyle fin, the thick tail and centered straps require a good freestyle skill-level and a vertical riding style
  Key features
• New raw-finish without paint reduces weight
• Exaggerated deck dome and heel gutters improve rider comfort, grip and control over the board
• New ultra-light 70g Slot Box fins with the new Drake specialist freestyle fins

A combination of a wood spine and wood bottom combined with an ultra light flat weave carbon. The first board construction in the World to utilize an ultra light carbon fibre that is flat weaved for total mechanical efficiency at half the specific weight of regular carbon weaves.

Advantages: lightest weight, stiffest flex, quickest response.

ProTECT - UV protective film all 2011 Starboard Wood Technology boards come with a new protective film that covers the exposed wood area of the deck. This film protects the wood from harmful UV rays to maintain the beautiful wood look. It also improves the bond between the non slip clear coat and the board to make the non-slip more durable.

*STOCK NOTICE - Sadly we are unable to stock all 2012 products, but we should be able to supply you with any of the products listed in the tables above. So we can best serve you, if the item you require is not in the pull down boxes at the top of this page please use this link to email us or call on 01543 505084.

**PART EXCHANGE WELCOME - We will accept your equipment in part exchange against this product. For a quotation just send us an email with the details of the equipment and some pictures and we will work out a value for you. To get the ball rolling please use this link to email us for your quote.