Looking at getting into some sort of wave sailing but not to sure on board type for
someone 200 cm tall and 105 kg. any ideas cheers

see this topic in the Wavesailing section: www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39321

Get a Carbon Art Custom. A mate of my is about 110kg and about 2m something and he has buys only CA. He loves them and has used his on maui and taranaki. I think his is a custom 100lt or something like that.

Depends where you live,.....I would strongly recommend not getting a traditional waveboard straight away, unless you can sail once a week in a good solid 20kn+ for a whole season.

They are too loose, slow to plane etc so if you have been on a freeride you'll hate it if the conditions are marginal or you are not using it often.


Nowadays we are so lucky with more imaginative shapes. If I were you I'd go a 105 - 110L freestylewave like the RRD or JP. Harder to find ones any bigger than that, but if you do see one a 120L would be better.

After a year on that, a 90L 'real' waveboard for the awesome days

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Mark _australia said...

Depends where you live,.....I would strongly recommend not getting a traditional waveboard straight away, unless you can sail once a week in a good solid 20kn+ for a whole season.

They are too loose, slow to plane etc so if you have been on a freeride you'll hate it if the conditions are marginal or you are not using it often.


Nowadays we are so lucky with more imaginative shapes. If I were you I'd go a 105 - 110L freestylewave like the RRD or JP. Harder to find ones any bigger than that, but if you do see one a 120L would be better.

After a year on that, a 90L 'real' waveboard for the awesome days

Mark Aust. recommending JP (Neil Pryde)

Have a look at the seabreeze Buy and Sell, there's a JP FSW 109 recently come up in Brisvegas. That'd be a good size for a big bloke.

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Mark _australia said...

Depends where you live,.....I would strongly recommend not getting a traditional waveboard straight away, unless you can sail once a week in a good solid 20kn+ for a whole season.

They are too loose, slow to plane etc so if you have been on a freeride you'll hate it if the conditions are marginal or you are not using it often.


Nowadays we are so lucky with more imaginative shapes. If I were you I'd go a 105 - 110L freestylewave like the RRD or JP. Harder to find ones any bigger than that, but if you do see one a 120L would be better.

After a year on that, a 90L 'real' waveboard for the awesome days

Mark Aust. recommending JP (Neil Pryde)

Only cos he's just starting, be a bit fragile for real waves
Seriously I was not big on JP boards but they improved their construction a lot a few years ago it is really only the 2000 - 2005 ish that are sus I reckon. I changed my opinion of them somewhat.
Maybe the subsidiary can influence the giant to improve things too

If your confident with waterstarts and gybing, get a board similar volume as your body weight, something around the 105litre, also a Freestyle/wave board would be best to start with as these get going faster and stay going so out running waves on the way out or in will be easier.
These style of boards are pretty good on waves aswell, i use a 95 for a light wind wave board.
I had a go of the Starboard Kode last weekend, it felt great, heaps good to carve on, something like this would be spot on..