Something I have been pondering reading others posts and thinking of what I use.
Short Detail: What size is your large wave board compared to your small board, your weight, size sails you use with it, main conditions you use it in, fin cobinations.

Long Detail: My Small board Flywave 85, Large Nuevo 101, all sails 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.6 and I'm 81Kg's. I tend to use the 101 anywhere to around 20knts which is when I can comfortably be on a 5.0 with my 85, also if it's gusty I find the 101 easier (less tiring) and comfortably use a 4.5. I find the 101 harder to use in larger bumpy waves, I tend to loose rail engaugment and start bouncing. I don't tend to care about jumping with it, when I do it doesn't feel comfortable. I like how sharp I can turn the Nuevo in the bottom turn and how easy it rail to rail tranistions. I play with 16's and 17's for top turn grip and narrower cord fins make a huge difference in glide/up wind performance. Do I need to change the board-No, am I looking at other boards-all the time:). I tend to think what I want in a larger wave board is different than what I want in a smaller wave and would a smaller wave board that didn't work for me actually work for me as a larger wave board? I had a V2 Nano as my small wave board and on the wave it was amazing, I just couldn't get it to the wave. I was either on the limit of being overpowered or slogging to get upwind, now I know this is all technique based as I happened to be out at Avalon when Ben was out and he clearly didn't have an issue. He even gave me some tips which I pratciced and continue to practice but I loose speed and fall off the plan on smaller boards. Every time I think of that board I think 'What would it be like as my large board, 102?'. Has anyone found a small board they couldn't get on with but love as a large board?

I think your issue is just the Nuevo is a loose board so everything you love about it becomes a handful at top end.
Bring it in, we will bung another box in to make a trailer setup and you will be grinning

Or get a quad, use bigger mains and smaller fronts to get the twinny feel u love and then use a normal fin set when its getting outa shape at top end

20 liters float is nice, but also quite a lot to keep a wide twinny behaving in the bottom turn at it's top end. I keep them in the 0-10l float or neg. Trailer fin can indeed help..but then..i just love the way they take you on that typical skittish, seeking ride. Gotta to let them free withing a certain range.

There's volume, and then length, max and ofo widths, etc. 70kg I have a 105L board which I use with a 23cm. That's for the soft and light.

But now I use 86L 59cm max. I find zero added benefit when using 4.7 as max sail. I like a minimum of reactivity.

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Manuel7 said..
There's volume, and then length, max and ofo widths, etc.

Indeed!

At 75kg my lightwind waveboard is a Patrik tww 83. It design as a trailer, with twin box quite far appart. I use it in twin, with mfc ls 160 almost at the back of boxes. It s very stable and floaty, like a 90l actually. It s also very efficient in gliding and planning which a big advantage in float n ride since you can catch the wave earlier and even with an approximative placement on the shoulder rather than on the Pic. Sure it s not the tightest carving board but you can't have it all.

Interestingly mys small board is a pyramid 86 (2016-17). It was t mean to be but it feels so much smaller and it s so power hungry that I only use it when I m planning confortably on 4.7. It turn very tightly with a nice grip. I guess it will make more sense to have it in 77 rather than 86. Especially with 4.2 and 3.7.

I'm 72 kg. TLDR - my big wave board is smaller (less litres) than the middle board.

A big board for lighter onshore conditions at home is a 85 litres thruster, 57.5 cm wide, with a bit wider tail area, but still performs super well for my weight when the conditions are not too powerful.



A normal board size for nearly all conditions, and also my travel board size is 86 litres quad, 57 cm wide, with fast bottom but with a bit thinner tail than the production boards usually have. Using very small area quad fins with it in all conditions, sails 4.5, 4.0, 3.5 mostly, rarely a 3.0 too.









And a small board is a 77 litres thruster, 55 cm wide, sails 4.0, 3.5, 3.0. Does not necessarily have to be too windy for this board to work, just that the wind direction and also the wave quality should provide enough power for going down the line if needed.

For waves I have a 2.5 board quiver. The .5 is not really a wave board but the Quatro Power 115 serves me well in light conditions (6.3 or even 6.8). My biggest waveboard is a Quatro Cube 106, with my 92 kilos, it's a brilliant board from 6.3 down to 5.2. When it gets windy I will use my Goya custom 4 94.

Over here in the Netherlands we don't really get shlog and ride. The Northsea is a mess with a bit of wind so you have to keep moving or get eaten, hence the big gear.