Futura 122 is a good choice.
If your current biggest sail is 5.5 then 7.5 will sound huge to you. Buy a 6.5 for this season then when you find on the light days it is still not enough buy a 7.5 next season. You'll still use the 6.5 on the moderately windy days. I use mine up to about 20 knots. It is a cammed sail and it depowers well.
I am under 60 kg, my light wind board is a 111 Futura. I was initially advised to get a 7.5 for light wind days but like you I thought that is too big. I was unsure if I could waterstart it. I had only just bought a 6.4 (up from 5.8). The 6.4 is beautifully balanced on the 111 but not enough power for the light wind days (under 14 knots). I have now progressed to a 7.5. Much more grunt but it is a bit heavy.
Offer to pay the seller $50 extra to cover the packaging material (big roll of bubble wrap costs $20 from aus post) and their time. Cheaper than the pack and send option.
Hey Sputnik11, just thought I'd chime in too and say I've also picked up a Futura 111 at the start of the year. I'm about 90kg and sail it mostly with Severne Turbo's 7m/ 8.1m. I picked up the 8.1 for yellow arrow days and it's been getting me out when it's marginal ~12-15kts, but I tend to use it up to about 17kts (because I hate grovelling). Good board, definitely maximised my TOW this season.
there is another aspect to this - new gear v old - I just got a quite new isonic 127 - it is 85cm wide - but somehow because it is so very light it floats me and a big rig as well or better than the kids JP funster rated @ 160l - ltrs appear not always equal!
I am 96 kg & with a 7.8m i need a puff about or just over 15knt to get me planing - once planing I can keep on going in very light lulls
I should add it has vastly added to the number of sailable days - & very wide boards with 50 cm fins like that point upwind in an astonishing way - you can tour around exploring a long way from where you launch like the old days on a board with a centre board (i am sure formula sailors will be saying what took you so long to figure it out???)
Interesting discussion. Someone earlier in the thread asked me how I was measuring the wind or was I guestimating. I use the websites and my 30+ years of sailing, but I suppose nothing substitutes for a wind gauge.
What I am calling 10 - 14 knots maybe what someone else thinks is 8.
For those Melbournians, I am looking for gear that would have me sailing on a night like tonight. Just been down to the beach and it was marginal, but I was thinking that the Futura with a 6.5 would have been the business tonight.
Much more TOW next summer. Now if I can only get a frickin' courier who will pack and send the board without charging me $280.
If its under 15kts I get out my Mistral superlight 11 with a 9.5m2 sail. The alternatives are too much like hard work!
I'm happy to be proven wrong if the wind I'm heading out in is in fact under 10kts...it could be slightly more, but my point was that my gear will get me going from 10-15kts. The lower scale needing much concentration/technique and pumping to get going. As mentioned, 13kts is a big difference and with marginal Vic winds - I wouldn't go out if the 10kts was the maximum gust speed as it just wouldn't get me going.
Using a rig that isn't 'over-hauled', using gust/roll & pumping to get going, closing off the bottom of the sail along the board & with a concentrated stance, I've sailed in about that 10kts. Much more enjoyable with a few more knots though.
