I recently got a Bombora x-it and it's by far the best all rounder on the market. I can change the fin setup to make it perfect in any conditions.

Whether is 40ft jaws or 20ft teahupoo, I can tweak it to make the most of the conditions.

Id reccomend it to everyone, beginner to pro.

You can increase or decrease the wind range of the foot straps on those, just experiment with different perfumes on the end of the third batten

X-IT does NOT sound like a "good" model name
sounds too much like EXIT
if one is to add the E - perhaps X-ITE , as you suggest

found one video - 1990's board ??

Awesome video, super smoothe ride. If anyone wants one your local landfill site should have a good collection. Take your own front end loader.

I did the ledge to lancelin on a mates exit decades ago. Lets just say it was a challenge.... Maybe eye am is joking in the reviews section?. They were good in their day, and horses were once a great mode of transport.

I enjoyed the Bombora x-it, my first board was a Bombora tri-fin. But my favourite board was my Tiga 275... plastic fantastic. It survived kids paddling it around like a kayak and falling off the top of dads falcon at 120kmh... seriously all I had to do was sand back the road rash on the nose and rail. The non slip was worse than average. The gybe often skipped me off, but wow. What a ride!

Very funny eye. I had a Bombora Zot many years ago. Very fast board, very hard to gybe

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Stretchy said..
Very funny eye. I had a Bombora Zot many years ago. Very fast board, very hard to gybe

Yeah the X-it is for noobs, Zots are hardcore.

x-it, noobs n zots
man i feel old
feels like newspeak
actually heard Orwell is back - 1984

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joe windsurf said..
feels like newspeak
actually heard Orwell is back - 1984

I'm reading a frightening novel entitled "fatherland" by Robert Harris... an imagined world where the nazis win the war and run Europe... most concerning is the parallel to current world politics.

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barbarian said..

joe windsurf said..
feels like newspeak
actually heard Orwell is back - 1984

I'm reading a frightening novel entitled "fatherland" by Robert Harris... an imagined world where the nazis win the war and run Europe... most concerning is the parallel to current world politics.

No real parallel. The Nazis changed the laws to enable a totalitarian state. Similar law changes in the USA are unlikely, if not impossible given the three arms of government in the US, ie. the presidency, congress and judiciary. We are even seeing the effect of this now with the courts reversing Trump's ban on immigration from some Muslim countries.

Back to the original topic, I think the guy who shaped the original design had probably never windsurfed and must have been coming down from a bad trip on acid. How could you gybe that thing?

It seems to have taken the 90's concept of a 'slalom gun' to the extreme with limited rocker, boxy rails and a tapering back end so extreme that your heels would be dragging in the water!

It's akin to those old plywood snow skis and leather bindings you see fixed to the wall as decoration in ski chalets.

P.S. images from ebay link

P.P.S. I have a complete quiver of late 80's Neil Pryde RAF CAM Waves if anyone interested!

they are a bit like the Windrush Storm9. A slalom board that had no stiffness and was usually found with negative rocker. They were fast before they bent the wrong way.

I recall the Bombora Xit doing well in the Rottnest Race when it was first run under the hands of Peter Davidson I think he placed highly. It was certainly competitive then although today is like something off of the Ark and not very forgiving. Its designer Tom Luedecke was probably one of the top sailors in Australia and internationally in the 1980s up to 1991 and I am sure he gybed it perfectly.

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RichardG said..
I recall the Bombora Xit doing well in the Rottnest Race when it was first run under the hands of Peter Davidson I think he placed highly. It was certainly competitive then although today is like something off of the Ark and not very forgiving. Its designer Tom Luedecke was probably one of the top sailors in Australia and internationally in the 1980s up to 1991 and I am sure he gybed it perfectly.

I remember in their day, there was nearly as many on the Swan as there were jelly fish in it, they were very popular and regarded.