Foil gear question

Gear Advice/Question

Hey guys

Recently I took some foil lessons and now I’m going to buy my first foil.

I’ve had the lessons in a north sonar foil with a 85cm mast, i was able to do a few water starts but had a lot of problems for taxing. The board we used for the lessons had very low volume and the waves (even thought was in a lake) quickly washed away the board from my feet so I had fly in the foil as early as possible to keep riding. Also when I breached the foil out of the water was impossible to recover, so that I think really hindered my progression

I will buy my own foil, from my research I saw that I need at least a 1250 front wing and a mast around 75cm since I’m not a total beginner. Also a low aspect foil.

The question is, should I go to a high volume board to help taxing and recovering from foil breaching? I saw some videos that say that higher volumes board are worse for waterstart so I was a bit confused if I should get a bigger board or not

So the question is, what would be a good board for a 79kg rider? Like which size/volume

Thanks!

Posted Aug 4, 2025, 11:15 AM UTC

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