It's been windy lately...so we've been testing lots of new blowboarding hardware...namely, masts and booms...critical components of the sail rig...this was yesterday with the 2008
Hot Sails Maui "Fire"...

We have the new long awaited 2008 carbon
HPL wave and freeride booms in stock...


The new
boom head is much improved...as is the
collar adjustment...dual clips increase torsional stiffness...the
tail end is light and simple...
Here are the new 2008 100% carbon Powerex RDM's:

The Powerex RDM's come in 3 flavors now for '08...60%...85%...& 100% carbon...same great no questions...YOU BREAK IT...WE BUY IT...warranty...
Labels: HPL booms, Powerex masts, windsurfing Santa Barbara
Another windy day on the Exocet Kona longboard waveboards...
Gallery here...Wind is going offshore...so conditions should improve for a standup sesh...
Labels: Exocet Kona Mini Tanker and Kona 10'5", longboard wavesailing, windsurfing Santa Barbara
Spring has sprung...and that means winds...
The new Exocet Konas really proved themselves in our local conditions...

Gallery here....Labels: Exocet Kona, exocet mini tamker. exocet 10'5", windsurfing Santa Barbara
We haven't received the Exocet Kona Surfs in the US yet...prolly about a month out...but, we've hooked up
many happy sailors with Kona Styles...
I have been asked basically the question of relative differences dozens of times...so I put a gallery of pics
together comparing the Kona Style with the SOS standup / wavesailing longboards...
I think the surfboard refinements of the SOS boards are pretty obvious...



The Kona is a sailboard...but, it definitely functions as a standup board to do downwinders...and it can ride waves... We shipped one of our carbon paddles to a guy in Sweden to make him the 1st beach boy surfer in
Sweden...and he got a Kona to facilitate that...

More pics here & here...
Here is Big Red planing in light air longboard surfsailing mode:

Labels: Exocet Kona, longboard surfsailing, SOS Big Red, windsurfing Santa Barbara