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SONIC W75 LARGE
Length: 272 cm Width: 74 cm
Volume: 145 ltrs Weight: 17.5/7.8kg
Upwind: N/A Planing: N/A
Speed: N/A Handling: N/A
Jibe: N/A Overall: N/A
Price: $1,510
Includes: Straps, Pads, Fin
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STARBOARD SONIC W75 LARGE
How can you not love a board called The Large? This is the 1.5 cm (.6") thicker version of last year's successful W75, an AVS race board. It carries 146 liters in its 275 centimers, thanks to its 74 cm width. Consistent with Starboard innovation, it features a scooped-out deck for more leverage over the mast, and the option of a single rear footstrap position for a relaxed ride. It comes with wood as part of its structure, but not Dyneema, and weighs 17.5 pounds, which is not so Large at all. Its 54 cm fin was quite Large, however, and was mostly what kept it off the water in Maui. Sailors were afraid they would break it, because the reef is shallower than that in many places.
"Fast, with fair balance at speed," said Mark Archer, who sailed it overpowered in small swells (at high tide), conditions in which balance is truly tested.
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