This is not a review but I just saw this product video on the Naish site.

Apparently they developed a new all round B&J board. Normally I don't care much for product videos. I mean have you seen Naish riding in the 80's? He could probably ride a toilet door in waves.

Anyway, have a look at the video at about 0:46. The bottom shape looks interesting. I'd be keen to give this go.

Not sure, but I thought the Starship was just a new name for the Naish Koncept.

This board get's an excellent review in the latest UK Windsurf magazine. A return to the Wave-slalom genre apparently.

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Simonzee said..
This board get's an excellent review in the latest UK Windsurf magazine. A return to the Wave-slalom genre apparently.

i did have a 'Wave-Slalom' board long long time ago, the term seems a bit of an oxy moron, as the two disciplines are miles apart in terms or rail shape.

Having said that i also had the original naish titan which was a fast slalomy board albeit reasonably loose at the same time

Agreed - the two don't seem to mix. I had a Fanatic Gecko 20 years ago - good board but more slalom than wave. Ah well, everything comes around I guess!

I have sailed it a couple of times here in The Netherlands, I changed from a Starboard kode 103 to the new Starship 100.
Sailed it with Naish Force 4.7 up to 6.2 in various conditions. Also in a good 30-35 knots of wind choppy conditions.
It is a bit slower of the line than most of the wide tail freewaveboards but gets plenty fast when powered up.
The best part of this board is how easy it is to sail in choppy conditions and gybing is absolutly perfect. Very hard to mess up your jibe, the soft rails and narrow tail lets you really carve the board around the corner with plenty of speed coming out of the turn. This board can be used in small surf also, the kode 103 was too fast and had too wide tail for this. So it really is a do it all board with a little more wave feeling than most freewave boards.
The stock fin is way too big, changed it for MFC 211 27cm, perfect match.

How much tail kick do these boards have?

about this much.....


and the concaves....