Been enjoying the ease of traveling with a 4’8" board for prone and wing foiling, claiming it as “golf clubs” and not paying luggage overages, but wondering if one could push the versatility further and come up with some sort of groveler shape with foil and fin boxes that would work ok for traditional surfing too.
Anyone know of or try a board like this? Thinking about 5’, 30-40L. Maybe need to go longer at ~160lbs. Don’t really need exceptional surf performance, but something versatile for when conditions or crowds make it unsuitable for foiling. Would be nice if the shape made for easy wave catching, whether with fins or foil. Decent low wind winging capability would be nice too, favoring more volume.
I know there are kitesurf/kitefoil hybrid boards out there, but they seem to be very dense, low volume and probably hard to paddle into anything but ideal waves on.
I used to ride a Vulcan like this. Not sure how it would go with track boxes in it too. It was how I had fun surfing before foiling came along. The tomo boards are a similar square compact shape.
The golf trick is no longer a thing at least on delta and American. They have the same policy for surf and golf: free under 50lbs or 70lbs with status/credit card. Just don’t call it a windsurf that is an automatic up charge.
That shape looks pretty interesting, though the square corners might be annoying in turns.
I’m seeing all these Midlength boards, which I guess are just shorter versions of traditional surf Midlength designs with a bit more displacement bottom.
Seeing the similarity between this and new prone Mid lengths makes me want to throw some fins in a foil box and give it a go. Maybe a slight displacement hull up front transitioning into planning at the back could actually be a really fun combo board with either fins or foil?
