Where to test a sherpa 14'? / how stable is a 26'' board?

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Where to test a sherpa 14'? / how stable is a 26'' board?

Message par ROH » mar. avr. 14, 2020 5:19 pm

I'm seriously thinking about a 14' foot board for flat water (but with a lot of traffic of boats and sometimes wind waves (max 40 cm).
So I wanna know how stable is a 14' Sherpa 26''?

Also because the water here is not always clean I like to have a stable board. I have now a Starboard 8'10'' widepoint (I think 32'') for SUPsurfing in which I'm intermediate. I'm 1,80 and 80 kilo and my balance is soso/average. I also have an inflatable 12.6 x 31'' which is very stable (but I want to go faster)
I tried to SUP on an old pintail windsurfboard of 3,50 x 65 cm with a big daggerboard but that was not comfortable.

Is there a possibility in Holland to test a sherpa 14'?
If not, with what I can compare the stability of a sherpa 14?

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Re: Where to test a sherpa 14'? / how stable is a 26'' board?

Message par ROH » lun. juin 08, 2020 2:49 pm

Maybe a bit difficult to answer: But how much faster is a 14' with width 26'' compared with 28'' (both flatwater boards with more or less the same shape)?
With a 14' 28'' I'm going around 6 or 7 km/h how much can that be on a 26''? 7 or 8 km/h?
Or is there not so much difference between 28'' and 26''?

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