Hi All

I have heard a couple of blokes say that the litres of Fanatic freewave boards are not completely correct. The word on the street is that some freewave boards (I don’t know what years) are actually several litres more than what is on the spec sheet. Does anyone know if this is the case or not?
Also from the other posts I have read I am guessing that the rule of thumb for buying a wave board is buying your body weight in litres. Do you agree or is this a "how long is a piece of string" question ?

Cheers
Oldboy

Fanatic is generally a few litres under spec on their boards. I have freewave 96 and I would have said it's pretty close. ISAF only show 04 boards:
F/W 86- 81L
F/W 96- 93L

yer sometimes i think they just guess the size of the boards, for a wave board get one close to your weight..

Strange that ISAF measurements show the opposite...

The boards which come out of the line are the same (within a few %). The official word when Starboard got roasted over volume discrepancies is that the marketing side wants a board of 96L as it fits in well between the 86 and 106 in the range, shapers try to achieve that end but if they find thinning the rails out and losing 7L of volume makes the board better then that is what will happen.

Sometimes the discrepancy is rather bad with 2 boards in a particular range only being about 3L apart when they were supposed to be about 13L apart.

The volumes are more or less a guide, IFCA does measurements if you really care to see that you're 85L board is 85L. It is the only way to know, all the rest is just sailor speculation. Judging volume is like police judging speed without measuring device, it just dosen't work.

Volume is over rated for performance! A rough guide of plus or minus a few litres is fine. "Tail" and "wide point" width's are more important factors for someones weight, combined with a rough idea of volume.