Jusavina, what size sail is he using. Looks like a 7.0m How's the gybing?

If you zoom in first photo it seems it's a 7.8, as announced

@jusavina: thanks for posting them! Do you have contacts in development team? Keep them coming!

development team is in new cal Julien

On ya NP. I like where this is going.

Looks like good fun
I'd love to give it a go .
must feel unreal .

So the fin thingy looks at least 1200mm long so unless you're extremely tall you'd have to water start off the beach?

Mabee the long fin thingy helps to uphaul easier ? Although I don't see an uphaul rope.

Looks cold for NC ...

Are you sure NP is the manufacturer?

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NelsonFoils said..
Looks cold for NC ...

did not say testers,..... developer !

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MarcCRider said..
If you zoom in first photo it seems it's a 7.8, as announced

@jusavina: thanks for posting them! Do you have contacts in development team? Keep them coming!

I have some contacts but the pics where posted on Facebook by Neil Pryde himself.The fin thingy (or mast) is around 93/98cm I think (I can't remember exactly).

Helmets & vest!! Crash test dummies are looking after themselves these days. OH&S must be testing the industry.

Foils never really interested me but the thought of a one design racing class on foils is starting to get interesting. Equipment is available to buy in 2017

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cammd said..
Foils never really interested me but the thought of a one design racing class on foils is starting to get interesting. Equipment is available to buy in 2017

Available in January 2017.And when it's too windy for the foil, you just keep the same gear but use it with a normal fin.

Pricing? Its ok we are sitting..

Agree Cam, don't think it lends itself to close technical racing. ...but i hope i'm wrong.

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BSN101 said..
Pricing? Its ok we are sitting..

Not more than a full slalom set if you can use the same gear for all the conditions...I believe the RS:X will be a bit more expensive than the current package because of the foil but the RS:0ne should be cheaper.I'm assuming they'll try to keep the price as low as possible at the beginning anyway.

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da vecta said...
Agree Cam, don't think it lends itself to close technical racing. ...but i hope i'm wrong.

thats what all the wally sailors say

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da vecta said...
Agree Cam, don't think it lends itself to close technical racing. ...but i hope i'm wrong.

thats what all the wally sailors say

Ha Ha, ...come on grow a mullet and see the light.

looks fantastic

Already stoped one Windfoiler down at Melville learning to foil.He's up and ride just about...already cranking up wind!!! And no judgement on his wobbles, it takes dedication and time to foil 20-30 hours till its starts to feel natural, an then it clicks, like riding a bicycle you'll look back some day and wonder how did you ever not know how to foil.And once you foiling, there is simply no going back!!!


If this is the new uplift for RSX i think RSX future looks very very promising, even as a kite foil racer i must say that looks like it has serious potential for free-ride and course racing. Its taken Kite Foils a couple years to evolve at the perfroa ce end, and give WindFoil a couple years its will be very entertaining as a race class.

Thats awesome!

the developer in New Cal :

A video from the developer contractor. Not very spectacular footage (not even a single tack or jibe!) but for those interested in foling you can follow the guys for future updates

https://www.facebook.com/neilprydewindsurfing/posts/1067059606670894

(I wasn't able to get original the video link outside facebook, if someone can get it, please share it)

The gybes look awesome in PKR's video. Such a smooth transition.

If the RSX or other concept can plane from 6 to 26kts with one board rig and a few fins that would be an amazingly versatile quiver.

What has me curious is whether this will render formula boards and their massive 11+m sails obsolete? It sounds like my Free Formula and 10M sail has limited days left?! Will be happy to see the back of it!

I already have a 7.8m and 8.4m NP slalom sail, so just need the board!

Obviously NP have better links to the IOC than I do, but going from published information it's hard to see why this board would have a better chance of keeping windsurfing in the Games than the current board. Low cost was one of the strong points of Olympic windsurfing; speed has never been a problem. Why will this class, which will require all current Olympic boards to be thrown away and all new fleets to be created, be cheaper? How well will it work in a fluky and puffy 5 or 6 knot day at Olympic lead-up events in Kiel in Germany, or similar places? How will it fit in with the IOC's emerging requirements for less specialised sports?

For all the enormous amount of hype around foiling, it's been enormously UNsuccessful when it comes to getting people on the water. The foiling America's Cup attracted the smallest field for about 50 years (apart from the D.O.G. matches, which also involved fast cats). The British kitefoiling champs had just 4 locals. Foilers of all types (cats, Moths, kites) attracted something like 60 sailors to British nationals, out of a total of about 3000 sailors or more who did nationals. The stats are pretty much the same in the USA. After a decade of huge hype, a country like the US gets just 12-14 foiling Moths to its nationals - and all that is after foiling's profile has been boosted by Moths (including the first mass manufacturer collapsing, losing millions) and the 1 billion dollars plus on the America's Cup, including spending millions buying airtime.

None of this is saying that foiling isn't fun, it's just that when it remains such an incredibly tiny sector of the sport when it's been around for a decade surely it should become obvious that most people just aren't interested. When the sport becomes so centred around something that most people are not interested in, it's headed for even more trouble in the future.