Anyone have experience with this board both for prone and wing?
Thanks
I have the 50L - works great as a smaller wave prone board. I also don’t have any trouble winging it in decent wind.
It paddles fast, but I wouldn’t compare it to a proper downwind board for prone paddle speed. I can catch bigger unbroken waves prone, but I need to paddle very hard.
The boxes are very far forward. I use lift foils and run them towards the back of the boxes.
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Interesting that you say the boxes are far forward. I have the predecessor to the skipper DW (last year’s version at 5’7" which was a semi-custom and is higher volume than the current version). I found I needed to put a new tail pad on the board further back than the deck pad originally extended. Felt like the deck pad was too far forward for the volume and I was pearling a lot and my stance wanted to be further back. Works a lot better for me now. I ride the foil further back in the tracks on this board than I do on my other Appletrees.
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The pad on the new version feels like its in a good spot - but the board is light enough I prefer my stance to be a bit toward the tail vs dead center so I’ve been pushing the foil further back that other boards.
In general I feel that in the smaller appletree sizes I run to the back of the tracks. (I also have a skipper short, skipper prone, and dw)
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This could be a really cool board for parawind DW runs.
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