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

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 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!

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.

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.

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!

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.