My experience with the Fanatic Foil Stubby board was very good as a wave sailing board. The thing had a very pronounced rocker. Even though I bought it to SUP foil and Windfoil, I mainly used it for Wave sailing on really light days and enjoyed it a great deal.

DC

Dcharlton said..
My experience with the Fanatic Foil Stubby board was very good as a wave sailing board. The thing had a very pronounced rocker. Even though I bought it to SUP foil and Windfoil, I mainly used it for Wave sailing on really light days and enjoyed it a great deal.

DC

DC, the multi boxes have limited fin sizes, have you had any problems with bigger sails, planing and upwind ability?
I wish the new BEE as STUBBY successor had at least a Slot Box in the centre.

I found the limits of use with my 4in1 boards (i use them since 2016) regarding planing:

1. With enough sailpower, e. g. in gusts, for planing on the straights, this isn't really comfortable: the board moves up and down on the tailrocker, with the flat deck of my board the foot position for transfering the sailpower is uncomfortable and the fins slide sideways because they're too small.
2. To get flowy waverides you need pushy waves, because you can't generate and keep the speed on a mushy wave because the boards stops planing as soon as the wave push vanishes. E. g. in small waisthigh groundswell waves with sideshore wind the board was perfect, whereas in mushy chesthigh onshore windwaves it was not really fun, because the board didn't keep the speed/planing in a bottom turn.

But for really lightwind and pushy waves it's really fun, for conditions where the big waveboard is still too small and cumbersome to slog out.

Alex

When it's super light and mushy you really want a longer board for wavesailing. It's also easier to catch waves with in those conditions.

The shorter boards lend themselves more to foiling when it's light.

It's no different to the length of sup you choose for different conditions.

Smik mongrel has longer models. The bee is to small for me..

I really like my Sealion in light wind and nice wave!!! It's not meant to get up and go quick, I can make my 92freestyle get up and go faster, but with a wave, it makes a lot of sens and I sup good as well.

Sealion - never head to the beach without one :-)