Starboard Futura 09 Windsurfing Boards

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Starboard Futura Full Range 9 Windsurfing Boards


The fastest board in its category, yet the most stable. A board that delivers more power and early planing than conventional freeride boards, yet remains comfortable. A board that is wide enough to carry bigger sails and deeper fins, yet feels small, light and responsive under foot. A board that is stable and accessible, yet carves smooth, tight jibes that defies its width. This is the Futura.

Its secret? Extra slim shapes, extra width, combined with iSonic genetics.

Wind range - replace two conventional freeride boards with one Futura: with it's extra wide and extra thin design, enjoy the ability to use larger sails and deeper fins for the power and early planing ability normally found in larger boards. Thanks to its reduced thickness, enjoy the responsive feel of a small board with tight carving performance associated with smaller boards. Two in one.


Pure Speed - the Futuras are seriously fast. They were chosen by several magazines worldwide as the fastest board in their category, blurring the line between freeride and slalom. That's how fast they are. Thanks to their iSonic rockerlines and a low-nose design, the Futuras fly over the water with impeccable control. But here's the best bit: not only are they fast, but the sweet spot of the Futura is also bigger than that of conventional freeride boards. Ride a bit underpowered or overpowered, flat water or hard, choppy water, the Futura still delivers. The board has an amazing efficeincy, you really feel that you are flying over the water and not pushing it. 


Control and handling - slimmer shapes equals a lower centre of gravity. This gives you control. With its lowered nose rocker, the board is immune to gusts of wind that would normally blow you out of control. And for advanced riders, the outboard strap settings combined with wider tail widths also give you more leverage over the fin, for even more control at the limits. The feedback through the fin is very direct. Going fast and making small adjustments is easy.


Comfort and accessibility - in previous years, if you wanted freeride speed and performance, you needed a board that was hard and technical. If you wanted comfort and ease, you also had a board that was slower and boring to ride. This is one of the key behind the success of the new Futuras: it gives you performance, comfort and stability all in one. Its extra width inherently gives you more stability; the board won't roll, it's easy to uphaul and it's easy to get going. With strap inserts now placed further inside, they become even more accessible.


Power - for advanced riders, the Futura delivers all the power you can wish for - power to go upwind, power to plane up early, power to translate into maximum top speed. With its Tuttle fin box system, enjoy the ability to tune your board to even higher levels of performance with the best fins on the market today - they're only available in Tuttle box. This extra upwind abilty gives you more ground for practicing jibes and other moves where you have to loose ground downwind.


Jibes - those who ride the Futuras are impressed by one thing in common: they jibe far better than expected from their extra width. Making boards thinner and thus lowering the centre of gravity simply improves a shape's ability to respond to foot pressure. Carrying no more volume than you really need, the Futuras simply offer you a more efficient design for your weight. You really are riding the smallest possible volume board for eary planing and high stability.  

Starboard Futura Windsurfing Board

New shapes:

New outlines - the Futura 93, 101, 111, 122, 133 and 144 have new outlines that are wider in the area between your front foot and your back foot. The tail widths however have not been increased. This does two things in one: it improves the efficiency of the planing surface for more speed and quicker acceleration, and improves jibing performance.

Improved ergonomics - all Futuras have increased dome in the tail section, for improved comfort. Whether you ride the boards with the straps in full outboard settings or with the inner settings, more deck dome equals more comfort and more control. On the Futura 122, 133, 144 and 155, the footstrap inserts were also moved further inboard, making the Futuras even more accessible for progressing riders.

Improved jibing - the new outline with increased tail outline curvature improves jibing. Furthermore, the footstraps are also placed further inboard: this makes it easier for the rider to initiate the carve and helps prevent the water from hitting the straps as it carves around.

New deck concave and a centre of gravity that is shifted back - more deck dome in the tail increases the thickness, but the front half of the boards were shallowed-out with a deep deck concave - the overall volume remains the same, the centre of gravity remains low and it is also shifted back. A centre of gravity that is shifted back brings it closer to the rider, which means more control and a quicker response to foot pressure.

iSonic rockerlines give the Futuras their speed, early planing, acceleration and control qualities.

These iSonic rocker lines have a low angle of attack that reduces aerodynamic lift and drag off the nose.

Less drag and less nose lift improves the board's control in gusts and improves the top end speed.

A low angle of attack also improves the board's planing efficiency, by allowing the board to skim over chop instead of bouncing over it.

Extra slim shapes: the breakthrough behind the Futura's ability to offer a combination of performance previously considered impossible.

Extra slim shapes lowers the centre of gravity to provide more control, more wind range and peak performance over a wider sweet spot.

Summary:

  • Extra-slim shapes and iSonic genetics: offers a combination of performance previously considered impossible
  • New outlines with a more efficient planing surface
  • New deck domes for improved comfort in both outboard and inboard strap settings
  • Available in cool BLUE or fast RED.

 

 

Specifications

Model Volume
(litres)
Length
(cm.)
Width
(cm.)
Tail Width
(cm.)
Weight
Wood (kg.)

Weight
Technora (kg.)

Sail range
(Msq)

Fin Fin range
(cm)
Fin box
Futura 93 93 237.5 61.5 40.5 6.25 6.55 4.0-7.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 340 26-38 Tuttle
Futura 101 101 239.5 65.0 42.7 6.75 7.05 4.5-7.5 Drake Freeslalom Swift 340 28-40 Tuttle
Futura 111 111 240.0 68.0 43.1 6.85 7.15 5.0-8.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 380 30-42 Tuttle
Futura 122 122 244.0 72.0 47.3 7.05 7.35 5.5-9.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 400 32-44 Tuttle
Futura 133 133 247.5 77.0 49.2 7.70 8.00 6.0-9.5 Drake R13 Race SL 480 40-50 Tuttle
Futura 144 144 246.0 79.0 50.0 8.10 8.60 6.5-10.0 Drake R13 Race SL 480 42-52 Tuttle
Futura 155 155 249.0 85.0 59.5 8.60 9.10 7.0-10.5 Drake R13 Race NR 520 48-58 Deep Tuttle
Technora and Wood weights +-5% Sail ranges and fin are recommended indications.

 

Made in Thailand

AVAILABILITY IN THAILAND

Please contact Amara or Craig at Amara Water Sports Center at the Blue Lagoon Water Sports Club in Pattaya, Thailand. Both Amara and Craig have many years of Windsurfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding (SUP) and general water sports experience and are pleased to offer rental equipment, advice, pricing and sales of quality equipment.

Amara Water Sports Head Office is located at Blue Lagoon Water Sports Club just south of Pattaya, Thailand.

AMARA WATER SPORTS CONTACT INFORMATION

Blue Lagoon Water Sports Club

Soi Najomtien 14
Najomtien, Sattahip
,
Chonburi, 20150, Thailand

+66 81862 9958 for Thai and German

+66 8521 36731 for English

+66 3823 3276 for general enquiries

Email: am@windsurfing-thailand.com

Web: www.iwindsurf.asia

For detailed directions in Thai and English, please visit:

http://www.iwindsurf.asia/index.php/location-windsurfing-thailand.html

Amara Water Sports does not export to countries that have active Dealers, however we can deliver to the airport if you or a friend are passing through Bangkok Thailand.

Windsurfing Boards are ordered by the 8th of each month and are ready for delivery about 9 weeks later. Starboard Thailand Boards are manufactured right here in Thailand at the Cobra Factory - please note Cobra only sell to Manufacturers by volume orders.