So why is the best windsurfing manufacturer also your best choice when buying an SUP?

As far as mechanically advanced Sandwich Construction Hulls go - The Windsurfing Industry has created some of the some of the toughest, dynamic strength to weight ratio products ever made. At the forefront of that industry is Starboard - producing the boards that every other brand compares themselves too. Here's why:

Imagine a 100kg athlete, using all his skill and strength to hold down up to 10+ square meters of sail, (a sail is a verticaly mounted Wing that produces enourmous lift) and drive all that energy down through a lightweight racing board, and into a thin strip of super stiff Carbon - the fin. The board skims across the water at incredible speed, each year the competition shaves scant fractions of seconds of their best times. So many proto-types and late night re-shaping sessions, so many plane trips to test in different locations. When they come up with a winning shape, if that shape were to twist or flex the wrong way under load or repetitive strain, then all that work would have been wasted. 40 years of leading edge competitive race, wave and freestyle windsurfing development has pushed not only the shapes but the construction technologies of windsurfing boards and fins through the stratosphere. If you want a leading edge Board shape in a technology miles ahead of your surfboard manufacturer - consider a Starboard.

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