Hi Pals



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Does anyone know something I don't?
hitthewave.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/early-f2-board-type-x/

Regards from Greece

Dimitris (zaosan)

Is it an F2 stratos?

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Sparky said..
Is it an F2 stratos?


None of the known to us F2 boards had 2 rows of wingers and as i say in my post, the Comet is the model coming closer to this board, but still not quite.
1982-1985 Comets were 330-320 long, while the Strato during the same period was always 360...
If Jürgen Hönscheid cannot identify the model, only as a joke we will

In my mind it has got to be a Stratos rather than a Comet. It may very well be some sort of pre production version.
At home I have a bunch of German Windsurf magazines of that era and will have a looksy when I get back to SC next week.

I don't believe this was an official F2 board as none of the 1982 or 1983 F2s Comets, Lightning or Strato were multi fins. As far as I can recall they were all single fins. Perhaps this was an ASA version of a prototype which was never released. I would suggest the tri fin with fence fin was overkill and would not particularly efficient in a board of this size. That may be the reason it never made it to full production and was perhaps dumped on the Greek market .Since neither Jurgen or Kai have any knowledge of this board this is going to be very difficult to solve. Perhaps F2 founder Peter Brockhaus should be consulted. Good luck in the quest.

^ +1

looks different to any F2 of the day.
it has an Algiers dagger board system, F2 had their own without a gasket.
it may be a John Hall Design, his boards often had multiple flyers at the tail and the big towing eye looks familiar.
the mast track is F2 though, maybe '85ish, the earlier ones had a tiny red button.

Dutch ripoff by Cowabanga or similar company using suspect mast track and DB case common in the eighties. these crazy euro dudes used to visit us regularly back then with cut price rip offs of mainstream designs such as F2 and Mistral claiming to be innovators.....always Dutch, what was the go with that?

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fjdoug said..

Ha Classic.... Eurovision?

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greenleader said..
.....always Dutch, what was the go with that?

Very open laws in Holland. Spent 8 months over there, can't remember any of it

i wish i was in Madison right now



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mistral-Equipe-CHS-Mint-Condition-/161438909317?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2596824385

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aribenasher said..
I don't believe this was an official F2 board as none of the 1982 or 1983 F2s Comets, Lightning or Strato were multi fins. As far as I can recall they were all single fins. Perhaps this was an ASA version of a prototype which was never released. I would suggest the tri fin with fence fin was overkill and would not particularly efficient in a board of this size. That may be the reason it never made it to full production and was perhaps dumped on the Greek market .Since neither Jurgen or Kai have any knowledge of this board this is going to be very difficult to solve. Perhaps F2 founder Peter Brockhaus should be consulted. Good luck in the quest.

Yes, sides fins cannot offer anything but extra drag & unnecessary production complexity combined with increased cost.
Brockhaus has not responded yet .
Thanks for the wish.

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greenleader said..
Dutch ripoff by Cowabanga or similar company using suspect mast track and DB case common in the eighties. these crazy euro dudes used to visit us regularly back then with cut price rip offs of mainstream designs such as F2 and Mistral claiming to be innovators.....always Dutch, what was the go with that?

This is an interesting information, worth further investigation

Not an F2,but a real F2 sticker.

Maybe it's hollow?

no way that one is hollow!