Winglets improve yaw stability. On airplanes there’s significantly sized vertical tail and a rudder, and there are only few fixed wing airplanes - so that comparison is not straightforward. Flatter stabilizers allow to spin the foil easily on a wave. Thin stabilizers have less drag. Stabilizer size ...

Certainly you can use your existing mast/fuselage/stabilizer and a better suited from wing for winging. Not only you can use Sabfoil wings, but you can also use Phantasm wings if you drill the holes to 8mm.
What wing size are you considering?

… People who do not ride/ own both those sizes cannot know the difference that exists.. it's significant !!! Don't care what brand of 17m is out there to buy they all fail the powerhouse test … Back in 2014 I rode 17m XR on long lines after 19m Speed3 Deluxe couldn’t keep me riding and that was mom...

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If bolts are seized to the aluminum mast plate - drill them out.
The tracks are plastic, so you should be able to remove the bolts from the tracks.

Let's really think about marketing here. … Why on earth would they abandon riders that usually only get 12ish knots? So now they are going to limit their appeal to only Hatteras, South Florida, the Gorge, and Hawaii (I know there are more). It makes sense to appeal to the broadest market possible b...

Keep it under 50 lbs and deal with the rest. Some people call it snowboarding equipment to avoid paying extra fees Usually agents won’t bother, but in broke-ass airports they’re occasionally nosy, then you open a case with airline and say “I flew there just fine and they charged me for same bag on t...

The sail is not connected to the board though.

If Aluula was around for Best Hellfish, our new kites would had been obsolete years ago.
No offense to Cuben Fibre chosen for the Hellfish, yet for Cuba embargo reasons it would have been illegal in the US right off the bat and that killed the kiting revolution then.