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Starboard Quad IQ (2012)

The First Adaptable Multi Fin Wave Board
The Quads are the all-out powerful wave designs that generate maximum speed and drive, bringing an awesome production of speed, flow and power to your sailing. Stable and direct in feel, the Quads are most rewarding when driven hard off the rails for power turns. They like to turn on a full rail. With their four-fin grip, they give a very connected-to-the-wave-face sensation yet they still give the ability to lose the tail when extended through the lip for a rotational, whipped move.
Powerful, carving rail riders like Scott McKercher and Kevin Pritchard live for such performance.
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Price: £1,699.00

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Starboard Evo IQ (2012)

Extra Versatile wave board
The Evos' nature is to be smooth, fluid and most importantly, versatile in all wave riding conditions and for a wide range of users. Whether riding big waves or small onshore mush, the Evos are versatile. The Evo name has become synonymous with the ability to wave ride anywhere, anytime.
In 2010, the Evo benefitted from the multi-fin concept and the Adaptability concept. Both improve the Evos' ability to cover an incredibly wide range of conditions.
Freestyle-influenced riders like Philip Koster and Taty Frans specifically prefer the Evo for their ability to rip in all conditions, particularly in smaller waves, where the modern wave rider typically mixes up pure wave rides with freestyle moves off the wave face.
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Price: £1,549.00

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Starboard Kode (2012)

Agressive Wave Freestyle Machine
The Kode Freestyle Waves are Starboard's wave freestyle boards. Their nature is to be aggressive, fast and maneuverable. The three smallest sizes are most wave orientated. They fit the classic description of 'down-the-line sideshore wave boards'. Their speed and maneuverability make them good freestylers as well, although windsurfers nowadays may find them too small for anything other than the occasional high-wind move.
The three middle sizes are a balanced blend between wave, freestyle and freeride. 86 litres remains a popular size for wave riding, so the 86 maintains a strong wave emphasis. The 94 and 103 are the best freestylers and high-wind freeriders.
The two largest sizes are mostly freeride-oriented, since their size does not fit with the generally-accepted wave or freestyle volumes. They can best be seen as engaging, maneuverable alternatives in the freeride segment.
The Kode Freestyle Waves are exclusively single fin boards.
- The range that blends wave, freestyle and freeride.
- 68, 74, 80 : classic down-the-line style wave riders with high-wind freestyle ability
- 86, 94, 103: perfectly balanced blend between wave, freestyle and freeride
- 113, 123: maneuverable freeriders
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Price from: £1,259.00

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Starboard Futura (2012)

Test Winning Freerace Board
The Futura is Starboard's freerace board. Freerace boards are designed to go extremely fast, like slalom boards, but with more user-friendliness and more comfort. They are the sports cars of windsurfing.
When it was first introduced in 2008, Starboard Futura's revolutionary design redefined the freerace category: its 15% thinner profile and its wider outline, inspired by the evolution of modern slalom boards, offered the casual freerider a board that was very stable at low speed yet extremely fast and powerful throughout an incredibly wide wind range. On top of these benefits, the thinner shape made for better jibing and more control. It was a win-win design leap forwards, without any compromises needed.
After taking two years to get itself established, the Futura has become the clear market leader and the new performance benchmark. In 2011, the Futura won every comparative test it entered: the Planchemag test, the Wind magazine test, the Windsurf magazine test, the Boards/Boardseeker test and the Surf magazine test.
For 2012, Starboard continues to offer the Futura in six sizes and two technology options. The 111, 121, 131 are new shapes.
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Starboard Flare (2012)

Freestyle with a Flare
The Flares are Starboard's dedicated pro-level freestyle boards, designed and backed by the world's best freestyle team.
Freestyle boards require an interesting blend of riding characteristics: they need to be very quick to accelerate and feel compact in both aerial and sliding maneuvers; they need to pop air easily and carve and respond quickly to the rider's moves. Of all boards, they need to be the lightest yet remain extremely strong. To finish off, a freestyle board needs to be perfectly balanced and aggressive enough to invite its riders to go bigger, faster and stronger with confidence while being forgiving enough to help him or her finish each move. The Flares excel in each of these criteria. They also come in more sizes than any other freestyle board range, catering for riders of all ages and all sizes.
The 2012 Flare stands for:
- Dedicated freestyle boards
- Most compact and quickest to accelerate - Designed to generate lots of pop off flat water and be highly responsive with a direct, aggressive feel
- The small freestyle fin, the thick tail and centered straps require a good freestyle skill-level and a vertical riding style
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Price: £1,549.00

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Starboard Formula (2012)

Designed for absolute early planing and upwind/downwind performance.
The Formulas are Starboard's Formula race boards. Formula racing is the modern format of windsurfing course-racing, which is a close cousin of sailboat racing. Formula racing starts in just 5 knots of wind, with no upper wind limit. Unlike a slalom course, a racing course requires maximum upwind performance and maximum downwind performance. Finally, Formula racing allows only one board to be used. These parameters are to become the key drivers of Formula board design.
First introduced in 1998, Starboard's Formula was the first wide-style racing board. This truly turned the racing scene on its head, as no other board could beat its upwind, downwind and early-planing performance. By 2000, it dominated the racing scene by taking the top 6 in the World Championships. Throughout the decade, Starboard's Formula continued to dominate, with 11 top positions in the 2006 World Championships.
In 2007, Formula rules changed, requiring board designs to be frozen for two years. 2008 and 2009 boards were identical. 2010 and 2011 boards were identical. 2012 marks the next generation boards that will remain identical for 2013.
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Price: £1,499.00

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Starboard iSonic (2012)

Test Winning Freerace Board
The iSonics are Starboard's slalom boards. They are fast racing machines designed for the highest top speeds, the highest average speeds, the quickest accelerations with powerful overtaking abilities throughout a wide wind range.
The two smallest sizes are most narrow and shaped specifically for high wind conditions. The five middle sizes are compact designs for maximum performance across a wide wind range. The two largest sizes are extra-wide designs emphasizing lightwind performance and heavier riders.
Super fast and super efficient boards, they provide the highest average speeds, the quickest acceleration and fastest jibing speeds. Some recent competitive achievements:
- PWA Overall Slalom Champion 2011 men
- PWA Overall Slalom Champion 2011 women
- PWA Vietnam Winner 2011
- PWA Korea Winner 2011
- PWA Aruba Winner 2011
- PWA Turkey Winner 2011
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Starboard Ultrasonic 147 (2012)

Starboard's ultra-lightwind recreational slalom board
The UltraSonic is the lightwind specialist among Starboard's iSonic family. It is designed to bring high levels of lightwind performance to the masses. It's easy, it's fast and it's really fun.
Our earliest planing board together with the Formula. Incredibly efficient, it transforms the idea of what is possible in light winds.
The UltraSonic is unique in the Starboard range. The best way to describe it is as the largest and widest of iSonics. With ISAF and PWA limits set at 85cm in width, the UltraSonic is actually over the limit and therefore illegal in official racing. Knowing that racers will not use it in competitions allowed Starboard designers to increase the UltraSonic’s user-friendliness and comfort aspects of the board by tuning down the rail shape’s power and moving straps slightly further inboard. Technically speaking, these virtues also make the UltraSonic the easiest slalom board in the world.
The UltraSonic is also often compared to the Formula. Like the Formula, the board is in the ultra wide category. Both also excel in lightwind performance, with incredible early planing abilities. However, the Formula is designed for the best possible upwind and downwind performance, which translates into too much power for sustained reaching angles. Maintaining a Formula board on long reaches will to burning back thighs. The UltraSonic however, is designed for reaching in and out, as most windsurfers prefer to do. It is much more comfortable and maneuverable than a Formula board. Most importantly, it is also faster on a reach than a Formula board.
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