So I got to see he 12'6x 24 javelin maliko in the flesh today. We had the annual 44 km open ocean crossing here in Denmark yesterday. Casper Steinfath paddled the 12'6 despite everyoneelse being on 14 footers and off course he won.
The race was looong, in fact so long I didn't even both paddeling the maliko after crossing the finishline allthough Casper offered me a run on it.
But I can say that the board looks great!. The tail is pretty wide and square but with low volume, there is a sligthly recessed deck in the standing area and Casper was very pleased with this figthing through the chop.
The nose is MUCH lower volume than last year and looks like a great improvement over last year for downwinding
Why do the "new" downwind boards always end up looking like a SIC...I wonder...maybe I'll go for a paddle on my 14' Bullet and think about it....so stable, so assured, no submarine tendencies nor boofing.....and Naish will probably kick the nose up a bit more next season to try to sell more boards, and call it the "missile" or something.......and so the cycle goes on...
Having seen the javelin mailko lying next to my own bullet V2 the two boad do not look very much alike. The nose volumen of the new naish looks something like a crossbreed between a SiC and the "old" naish. The rails look different, the deck shape is different and the tail is as different as it could be. I LOVE my v2 but the naish also looks nice but the shapes are not alike...
Is the Javelin Maliko intended to be an out-and-out downwind board (as the name suggests), so it's main competitor would be something like the SIC Bullet 14v2, or a downwind/flat water hybrid, so a competitor board would be something like the new SIC FX (25" wide)?
Hey SUPerD,
I didn't even check the volume sorry, there are a few around Aust now so someone who has one might know. Otherwise I'm hoping to get out on the 24" on the weekend so will let you know.
I got to do a little downwinder on the 26" last weekend and it was so stable, I'm a beginner at downwinding but was the only one who came in dry at the end. It handled any side chop really well and you can feel it want to take off on the runners, I've just got to learn to catch them better
Peter P is exactly right. 14' x 24" is 230L and the 26" version is 249L.
Haven't paddled the 24" version yet but if the 26"er is anything to go by then it's going to up at the pointy end of some ocean races this year.