Am just being stupid? Cause i see a foil board for over a 1000 and i think " no way i am paying that much for something not even suppose to be in da water: its gotta be a crock o ^*&%$. surely a nice old fish with good thickness for the tuttle (or whatever your using) will do fine...i!
jees 1000 bucks for platform. wtf! yea its got to paddle onto waves but we have had short boards that can do that for decades!?!? could someone please explain? Or better yet agree with me :-)

A few of the foilers over here are getting by just fine with a normal (deep tuttle) board.

A number of them have re-enforced their boards because it has either snapped under foiling load or theyve decided to fix it before it snaps.

or you can go buy a ready to foil board which has been designed and re-enforced with foiling in mind.

Up to you really, go cheap and be prepared to fix/re-enforce it later when it snaps, or buy a foil board straight up.

edit: if you buy an old board, go for something wide, like wider than 80

I swapped a fin for a board ripped the box out when i hit a bank had it reinforced and all good now after lots of foiling seshes

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chadins said..
Am just being stupid? Cause i see a foil board for over a 1000 and i think " no way i am paying that much for something not even suppose to be in da water: its gotta be a crock o ^*&%$. surely a nice old fish with good thickness for the tuttle (or whatever your using) will do fine...i!
jees 1000 bucks for platform. wtf! yea its got to paddle onto waves but we have had short boards that can do that for decades!?!? could someone please explain? Or better yet agree with me :-)

Haha nail on the head

I am using an old 2010 Starboard with a Power Plate and a regular Tuttle box and it is fine. I don't ventilate much anymore, but it's no big deal when I do. I was warned about pearling the nose, a big reason to go with a foil-specific board with extra rocker, but hasn't been an issue. Just get something short and wide, make sure your foil has a collar on the box mount and go for it.

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chadins said..
Am just being stupid? Cause i see a foil board for over a 1000 and i think " no way i am paying that much for something not even suppose to be in da water: its gotta be a crock o ^*&%$. surely a nice old fish with good thickness for the tuttle (or whatever your using) will do fine...i!
jees 1000 bucks for platform. wtf! yea its got to paddle onto waves but we have had short boards that can do that for decades!?!? could someone please explain? Or better yet agree with me :-)

Why pay double that for a new windsurf board when so many decent used ones are available? Same reasoning.

I have a foil board and, to me, it was worth it. I pissed away nine months with an older board. Straps and mast track were in the wrong place. I'd struggle to get it to pop out of the water and then struggle to balance everything out with lots of back leg pressure. It was flat in front and would spank hard every time I touched down. The fin box never ripped out but thank heavens I wasn't on that board when I hit bottom - a friend did on his older Formula board and killed it. It's 130 liters but all the volume is in the back so getting it going is so much easier even as a conventional board.

Would it be worth it to you? Who knows. For me, I wished I'd bought it sooner.