Is Shinn going to produce his own foil?

[Shinnworld2]

Well spotted..... very often photo shooting and testing go hand in hand and in this case whilst photo shooting I was testing a board with an airex core and carbon layup - not the usual full wood core. The results were actually quite good until about 10 mins after this when the board snapped in half
The Jackson has a composite core, paulownia, poplar and airex but airex in the NON critical parts (like the nose). Bench testing shows it's around 45 % stiffer than El Stubbo with the carbon foil plate attached.
Jackson is a dedicated foil board and has chined rails to increase rigidity without simply adding glass or carbon (which add large amounts of weight too). El Stubbo is a cross over board that can be used with or without the foil and as with everything in life with compromise comes....... some compromise!
Mark

[aleks]

Thanks Mark, that is perfect, exactly what I was waiting for! Looking forward for Jackson boards in my local kite store.

And I guess I shouldn't try converting my El Stubbo to ride foil without a plate

[Ramkiter]

Anyone out there got the new Jackson board and tried it, I'm particuarly interested in the differences between the 120 and 145?

[omg]

Yes, and what's the appx. weight of the 120 (or even the 145) version, please? These could be good travel boards.

[Shinnworld2]

No Jacksons have shipped yet, we should start shipping next week.
145 Jackson is around 3.8 kg and the 120 around 3.3 kg.

[omg]

No Jacksons have shipped yet, we should start shipping next week.
145 Jackson is around 3.8 kg and the 120 around 3.3 kg.

Great, thanks very much for the reply!

[marekmk]

anyone tried the new Shinn foil yet?.......

[lupociotto]

Aren't shinn and zeeko both made in Poland? I wouldn't be surprised if the shinn masts are made from the same extrusions as zeeko.

Given their recent collaboration, I'd say you are probably correct.

as far as I know Shinn was together with Nobile before, Nobile makes Boards for a lot of Brands.
Nobile was a board factory (I think also for snowboards ...) already years before the were an own brand,
so they have great experience with board building especially twin tip cunstruction methode.

I think the strut Shinn / Nobile is also the same...why not...

https://shop.nobilesports.com/kiteboarding/foil.html

Regards Wolfgang

[Shinnworld2]

There are no OEM or shared parts on our foils. We started from the ground up
With our own project.

[faklord]

anyone tried the new Shinn foil yet?.......

This guy has http://www.blastkiteboarding.co.uk/blog ... il-boards/

Previously he has been riding Zeeko and Moses
Seems he was rather impressed!