gogol translating:
Hi from the UK! Bonjour de grande bretagne
Im interested in the AHD Seal / Sealion for light wind wave riding and i think these are popular in France (not in UK). je suis intéressé par la navigation en vent lèger (principe AHD Seal & Sea Lion) qui semble être trés populaire chez les Froggys, ce qui n'est pas le cas chez nous les Roast Beefs.
Can you someone give me a report on how they compare? Pouvez vous me transmettre un rapport sur ces planches pour les comparer?
Many Thanks! de rien
(i translate your message, it was meaning nothing with google)
+1 on the mini tanker but it depends on what strong of wind you will sail :
- more often between 0/8 knots -> sea lion, it's incredible you are in a surf world, just helped with your sail for taking waves
- more often 4/12 knots and more ( for me ( 1m76 and 74 Kg) -> high limit seems to be about 15 knots, just time to change for my twinser ) -> kona minitanker...
To have an idea of what it makes to sail in 4/6 knots with the kona -> http://www.vimeo.com/3032106 ( last saturday, me with my kona and a Naish boxer 5,8)
And forgive me for my english, school is a little bit far away for me
euh, là in english pas possible ( à part Yes !! ).. en même temps toi tu navigue en slaps ( jeu de mots pourri sur ton avatar )... j'adore ta planche soit dit en passant, j'espère avoir l'occase de la croiser en vrai
it's cool to see how good are uriders in english, i saw the board in a shop and for me it seemed really big and very wide, but for sure this kind of board rocks in really light wind conditions.
If i d buy a sup windsurf board, i d look for the Kona's boards because they are really efficient in light wind condition and are versatile cause you can use those boards till the limit of the ability of your usual wave board.
After, it depends of your weight but i know a big and tall guy who only preaches with Kona board because of his weight.
I witnessed once when he was using the new kona 9,5 TT while i was using a 73l xwave board and a 4,7 sail !!!
The best thing to do is to try, ask to your local shop if it deals Kona or AHD he might have a test board !!!
Hope i have helped you.
Take care
I have already tried sea lion. This is really original shape only for lighwind waveriding. For my weight it was not easy to make correct curves... but i think that one need to sail many time in order to handle with this board. Best would be to try it!
Kauli is apparently riding a quad fins swallow tail board with wingers in Cabo Verde these days and spectators are impressed with his speed and surfing. Kauli's popularity is so high he might be able to get everyone to try quad fins instead of tri fins?
désolé! sorry!
c'est Raph!!
) -> kona minitanker...
