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'Best value' is entirely personal preference. +1 for Enigma from personal experience, a 'bargain' (for their quality), but many will have a different set of price/value/quality/usage criteria and a different perspective.

X-booms! They come in Slim or regular Diameter, Ultralight or regular, Foil, Slalom or Race. Reasonable priced for their quality.

One year ago, I had the same doubts, then i searched a lot and a lot. guess what??

aeron is the "mother" of almost all booms, a lot of sails brands and accessories don't have and dont need to have their own molds to produce their booms, harness lines, extensors and other things. what they do? They ask to "secound ones", it's normal! The only change the grip.

the booms like aeron, old simmer, RRD, gunsails, goya, unifiber (not all), duotone EPX, prolimit, they all are made on aeron and others that i dont know.

i think but i'm not sure, new simmer, loftsails, avanti, they are made in another factory, but i dont know.

of course i bought the gunsails carbon boom, i have the 180-240 and the 230-290 what can i say?? I do like, but i only tried alumunion booms. this gunsails booms are the only 100% carbon booms that i have, i cannt compare with others.

Bought a Severne ENIGMA Carbon
Boom 160-210 back in June.

Pricey - Yes.

Quality - Yes.

Performance & Durability - YES.(So far)

Have alloy Naish boom, older Chinook & Hydrodynamics all good units relevant to your interests & needs.


If you're a hardcore sailor go for it Carbon, don't skimp on the mast at least minimum 70%c.

Aeron, Naish, Severne, Unifiber, Goya, Duotone, N.P, etc...all very good. How much you're prepared to depart with $'s & what you wish to gain in durability, longevity & performance. At the end of the day THEY all can be damaged or broken subject to conditions & situations.

NP with inter outhaul system is working well for me. On my larger sails where adj outhaul is desired.

Thanks for all the suggestions. In the end I ended up purchasing a Chinook carbon pro slalom boom. Many brands weren't quite long enough or weren't in stock. The Chinook boom looks to be quite well made. It wasn't cheap but hopefully sees me out!

PedroE said..
Thanks for all the suggestions. In the end I ended up purchasing a Chinook carbon pro slalom boom. Many brands weren't quite long enough or weren't in stock. The Chinook boom looks to be quite well made. It wasn't cheap but hopefully sees me out!

Good choice I say. I have several other chinook bits and pieces and all of them continue to exceed my expectations for quality and functionality. The carbon pro booms look awesome and I would really like one of them too. Let us know what you think of it when you try it out

+1 for AL360 V-Grip.