Race/Distance/Downwind Board Showcase
Mar 6th, 2009 by Kenalu Cross post
The showcase test day is complete, we tested two SIC F16’s (the MkI and Mk II boards), the new SIC molded F14, A Bill Foote 14 Maliko, the Bill Foote 12 Maliko, the Penetrator 572, and Naish Glide 12, with a Starboard 12′6″ tossed in as a baseline standard board. That’s a lot fewer boards than we intended to test, but we had some companies withdraw at the last minute due to financial constraints, and we had some participants that simply couldn’t make it. The weather didn’t help either–the downwinder leg had to be canceled. But we got some solid baseline data, had some big surprises, and our friend Mark (Kiwi) Jackson has come up with a brilliant idea for how to add to the knowledgebase without shipping boards all over the place. We’ll explain it later. In the meantime, the test will be up in a few days.
