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Thin nose

I never realised that the thickness of the board in front can do a lot. But it does!!! Now I own 2 extreme different nose-design boards:

  1. Carbon Art Speed, thick nose/ not very wide
  2. Fanatic falcon 91, thin nose/ a bit wider

And when pushing the board to the max in higher chop I just feel that the Fanatic falcon feels way lighter when hitting a wave with the nose of the board. The CA speedboard just doesn't like to hit a big wave when sailing 100% flat, it is a big bang, or when you are a bit unstable it could result in a catapult. I guess the age has also a bit influence on the fanatic falcon 91 'softness'. I like it!

Differences between the 2 designs are very big, but I still feel the speedpotential of both designs is very about the same.

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Erik Loots

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6 comments:

  1. Peter de WitMarch 19, 2009

    Hi Erik,

    The feeling you have about the nose thikness is right, Fanatic has "invented" dynamic nose flex.
    But there is also the scoop rockerline involved here.
    The Falcon's have a more rounded scoop-rockerline with not too mutch out front, this helps the board skim over in stead of hit the chop head on.

    The problem for you will be to get used to the way you hav to sail the Falcon (very flat) over chop, and the CA, the CA's have to be sailed quite nose high..

    The 91 has a little bit less skimming capabitities compaired to the Fanatic Falcon's 79 and 90/89 with these boards you can realy use the full length of the board going downwind over chop..

    BR,

    Peter de Wit

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  2. Erik LootsMarch 20, 2009

    Peter,

    I never understood till last weekend what feeling you ment with skimming over the water.

    But after the nauticial mile run I just kept on pushing the board and it felt so comftable!!! My CA is also fast but when I enter a windhole it is really hard to keep the nose high, that is when I loose some speed.

    I hope the temprature goes somewhere normal... I heard winter is over...

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  3. warriorMarch 20, 2009

    I try to find model 91, but I can't. Not in 2009, not in 2008.
    Where I can see Falcon 91 ???

    thanx

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  4. Erik LootsMarch 21, 2009

    Hey warrior what info do you need? On Fanatic website they don't display the board anymore.

    Width=61cm Lenght=245 Volume=91 liters

    Picture:
    http://www.fun-diffusion.com/photos/flotteur/fanatic/06falcon91-max.jpg

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  5. warriorMarch 22, 2009

    what year is 91 ? strange is why I can't find it on fanatic web site.....
    is this model can't be find in europe or ?

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  6. Erik LootsMarch 23, 2009

    The falcon 91 is a 2006 model

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