I would love to get a new board. At the moment I have a bic vivace (around 90-100 litres) which is less than adequate for a learner. Its a very unstable board and doesn't have enough litres for a beginner like me. I have had some fantastic fun on this board but I think I would progress far more as a winsurfer with a more user friendly board for me and my father. I am 78kg and nearly 6'5" and my father is 100kg and 6'1".
I was thinking a JP x-cite ride or Starboard GO would be a good option as it is both more user friendly but also leaves heaps of room for improvement. What do you think of this choice of board and are there any others which would be suitable. How many litres would you recommend bearing in mind that I would like to teach my little sister to windsurf so it needs to be quite floaty.
Cheers

How much does that leave for improvement? Is it an investment which I will still really enjoy in the years to come?

With for instance somerthing like a JP Funster, how will that deal with considerable chop?

Thanks Clarence, might take you up on that offer. Never actually used anything apart from an old Windrush xp and the Bic Vivace so it will be interesting to see how they differ from eachother.

Went out today for the first time in over half a year and surprised myself. (I'm going to put together a video in the coming days so hopefully you guys can pick my technique apart but thats for another post ) Once i was up and on the board planing was easy so the thought had run through my mind that maybe i should consider a smaller board. Dad used to windsurf in his youth (he was sailing the original Windsurfer and such) so he can windsurf, he's just quite out of practice.
So maybe in that case it wouldnt be a bad idea getting a 120L board maybe? Would it still be possible for both of us to uphaul on a 120L as neither dad nor I can waterstart yet. I also wonder if a smaller board would be more suited to a beach/ocean environment given the chop and swell.