2012 Starboard Futura Wood

The Starboard Futura Wood new windsurfing board is for fast freeride use.

The Futura is Starboard's freerace board. Freerace boards are designed to go extremely fast, like slalom boards, but with more user-friendliness and more comfort. They are the sports cars of windsurfing.

The Futura won every comparative test it entered in 2011: the Planchemag test, the Wind magazine test, the Windsurf magazine test, the Boards/Boardseeker test and the Surf magazine test.

Tiesda You, Futura board designer says, "The Futura is shaped in a way that rewards the advanced freerider with incredible speed, a very wide wind range and high-speed jibing abilities. Wide outlines coupled with a thinner profile forms the basis for each Futura design. By making the outlines wider, the boards will have better low-speed stability: this is important when uphauling or completing your jibes for example. By making the profiles thinner, these wider boards don't feel big - on the contrary, the lower center of gravity makes the board more responsive to foot-steering, quicker to carve and bite sharper into jibes. The combination of width and thinness also increases wind range: on one hand, the extra width allows the rider to fit a deeper fin and a larger sail, giving it more light-wind power. On the other hand, the low volume from the thin profile allows the board to be more controllable in high winds, using a smaller sail and a smaller fin. The Futura's nose is relatively wide, allowing for a shorter nose and a lower rocker to be used. This shorter and lower nose reduces swing weight, reduces aerodynamic drag and improves the board's ability to skim over chop without losing speed. The rails are shaped for power, with extra hard rail edges. But they remain thinner and more comfortable than the full-blown rail shapes of the iSonics. This makes the Futura more comfortable and less powerful. Most importantly, these rail shapes allow the use of in-board strap positions."

Special note on 2012 Futura construction: Especially for the 2012 Futura models, Starboard's Carbon, Wood and Technora technologies have been merged into two technology options : Carbon and Wood. The Carbon Futura is the lightest and stiffest option. The new Wood Futura constuction is a hybrid between last year's Wood and Technora, to offer a blend of high rigidity, high comfort and importantly even more value.

• Less vee in the nose to make the vee distribution more even
• New cutaway tail shapes with more open angles that trap less water
• Very deep deck concaves that improves control and lowers the boards C of G
• Wider nose outline for low speed stability
• Short wide noses improve aerodynamic efficiency and reduces swing weight
• 15% thinner rail profiles increases board's responsiveness
• Domed decks and multiple footstrap position allow for optimal tuning

Developed by Jean Louis Colmas in 1984, Wood Technology has become one of Starboard's trademark constructions since 1995. Their production Wood boards have since then set the lead in lightweight sandwich technology weighing in at a kilo under the competition and yet seemingly with a higher impact resistance.

A sheet of 0.6 mm Australian plantation pine wood forms the full outer shell of these boards. The wood's unique properties are its natural rigidity, superior resistance to compression and higher energy absorption compared to carbon. To this day it is still the construction with the highest dynamic shape stability.

Advantages: lighter weight, highest dynamic shape stability, rigid flex, quicker 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.

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