We only have a HWR here in Australia as Chris from VMG Blades was given one early for promotion in Australia. Not sure when the LWR will be available in Australia.

As for fins, I don’t know exactly what to recommend you on the Deboichets as we are testing everything but in Australia. The R20 is probably the best of his range but to be honest, your R13 will work great in pretty much any board, so you could stick with that to begin with as its a good fin for a variety of conditions and easy to sail.

I’ll have to ride them both to confirm this, but I think its possible Starboard might be going the wrong way about marketing these two boards as one for ‘lightweights’ and one for ‘heavyweights’ as it appears to be making the decision confusing for buyers. I think both boards will have potential for both heavy/light sailors as they are just different boards and the volume differences shouldn’t make a big difference. It’s like comparing a Vapor to a 162; neither is better for a heavy/light sailor, they are just different boards with different characteristics that would appeal to either …

I’ll try to post some comments when we’ve done some more sailing on the HWR here.

Please tell me, what board is the best for me, and what fin for board.
I ride more on the lake, not to much chopy water, in wind 10-25 knots
best regards from Serbia

Thx

Go with the SOFT, always. The softer fins are a lot more forgiving in stronger winds and will help you go off the wind better ;)

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I just want my Gaastra Vapor Formula Vin better than my current purchase Select Elite R.05 width 70
On offer are a Deboichet s 70 R13 and R13 M
I weigh 100 kg and 185 cm, and sail with the next sail TR3 11m ²
One says I S and the other is to take M
I wanted my final speed boost

My RSRacing 9.8 I am sailing with a Select Ultra 66, and combined shipping almost perfect, both as large wind

Probably a good move to go back to the starboard cutouts, lots of testing proved that with the ‘160-like’ board design, the smaller cutouts worked much better as the big F2 ones seemed to ’suck’ on to the water which is bad for early planing.

I agree with you on speed re the 160. The Gaastra board is essentially the ‘160 with all the upgrades’ as there is a few features that some would like to change on the 160 and the Gaastra has done just this.

Interesting you use R14, I could never get this fin to work, but if it does for you, great! R13 is always a great fin …

at Podersdorf I bought this prototype board from Steve. It`s the serial number 001.

I changed the F2 cutouts to the SB cutouts like the stock boards.

The board is faster at any condition as the SB 160 that I used before. Also planning is easier than with the SB.

For the 12.0 I use a Deboichet R14 with 72cm, and with the smaller sizes an R13 / 70cm.

Thank you for all the tuning tips – everything is working well and I`m very happy with that board.

See you

Christian