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Raceboard Class – Hybrid
By Scott | July 30, 2010
The past few years I’ve been promoting and racing the Mistral Prodigy. It’s a heck of a board but we will have to eventually move on to something else. I’ve now got some new links on this page going to some of the other Hybrid boards out there. In the future I’ll probably be posting news on Hybrid equipment in general. However I do plan to keep sailing the Prodigy for quite some time .. heck I still have some new ones setting in the shop all just begging like a little puppy to be taken home.
I’m also very interested in windsurfing class called the RaceBoard Class see www.raceboard.org . Think of the RaceBoard Class as the International Parent for Longboard and Hybrid racing style boards. The RaceBoard Class is a member of the IWAF International Windsurfing Association. A very nice Rules of Racing Guide for Boards is put out by them!
The international grand daddy of sailing authorities is the ISAF International SAiling Federation). Some general Rules for the Raceboad Class were published by them way back in 1990, see the ISAF document at http://www.sailing.org/5710.php
The official listed Hybrid boards registered in the RaceBoard class are currently:
A Hybrid board is defined simply as a production Raceboard 320cm / 10′ 6″ or less long. The Mistral Prodigy for example is 298cm / 9′ 10″ long, 87cm / 35″ wide, 255 in volume.
Some exciting news I recently received is that there will be a new X2 Hybrid/Raceboard coming in 2011 from Exocet. If you had not noticed there was no Pacer 300 Hybrid in the Exocet model lineup in 2010 so I’m assuming that board has been discontinued. The USA Exocet distributor does have a few Pacers left at some good close out prices so see your dealer if you been looking to get a new Hybrid board. I’ve raced against a Pacer 300 a couple times now on the Prodigy and believe they are pretty close performance wise.
Enjoy the new links under Hybrid Racing and be sure to check out the Raceboard class site.
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