RIo Starboard Windsurfing Board Thailand

The Rio is simply about windsurfing as Jim Drake intended it to be: everyone, everywhere and everytime.

Rios offer more glide in the light stuff and a smoother transition on to the plane as it gets windier.

For advanced riders, the longer, narrower shape combined with the inboard heel-recesses and more flexible daggerboard allows the board to power upwind off the leeward rail. When planing, the wide tail with large cutaways and tail side-cuts deliver a powerful and exciting ride.

The radical deck design with its heel gutters and inboard-only footstrap settings make it easier than ever to get into the footstraps for the first time.

The Rios' Clipperbox III daggerboard system comes with newly developped uni-directional back-plated lips that totally prevents any water from gushing through the daggerboard case when the daggerboard is retracted and board gets planing. For the first time, you can feel the efficiency of a non-daggerboard hull in a board with a daggerboard system.

For Schools and Resorts the Start is perfect, for families, or as a one board solution for light wind areas the Rio is a great choice. At Amara's Blue Lagoon Watersports Club in Pattaya Thailand, we use Rio boards as a great light wind trainer and a step towards smaller boards like the Go,Futura or Carve.