Foil Research

Checked out the Kailua shops on Saturday...

Meanwhile at the Naish Shop, they had some of the 2019 equipment in stock.  The combo SUP/SUP Foil/Windsurf Foil boards really caught my attention... One board, two foils, and my old windsurfing gear - and I can cover everything - is this the holy grail of windsports????

This is the Large Surfing Foil 

This is the XL Surfing Foil (downwinders on a shortboard, surfers over 200 pounds)

This is the Windsurfing Foil

And the tail of the Large Surf Foil

SUP Specific Hover

I recently became more edumacated on the 2018 Naish Hover foilboards.  There are different versions - a windsurfing specific model, one for SUP surfing and finally a crossover (to do both windsurfing and kitesurfing).  The windsurfing specific model does have flatter overall rocker (and the one I saw in person was full carbon).  Here is the SUP surfing model.

If I got one, it would be the crossover model to give the best of all possibilities.

Naish Hawaii Shop

I've been in this store so many times in the past 21 years - windsurfing, kiting and now SUPing - these guys have been at the pointy end of the spear the entire time. The funny thing is time stands still in this shop - there is history. There is the future. And it all comes together in a singular present. There are boards that changed the direction of sports, and there are sails/footstraps/fins that helped build a great champion. And with Sean and Noel still behind the counter, it is just like the day I first walked into the place. I felt like I was in my twenties again....