"Finally, a Compact traveller's board 2m long, making it a breeze to transport and store your equipment".
As well as being primarily a practical board, the Compact has also been designed to carry a wide range of sails, plane in light winds and reach an extremely high top end speed comfortably. Like the Carves, two footstrap insert positions are available: inboard for accessibility and maneuver orientated sailing, outboard for maximum speed and control. 2 fins are supplied with the board: the Race 480 delivers bottom end power and upwind drive with sails over 8.5m2, the Freeride 380 works with sails below 8.5m2 to reveal a slippery-fast freeride feel and excellent jibing performance. A special Compact boardbag will soon be available, incorporating mast and boom attachments for an ultimately compact and practical package. Grab the bag and go!
What the Magazines say:
| Wind Magazine, Francee |
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First impression, as soon as you stand on the Compact, you are really surprise with the facility and the great stability of this micro-board. Of course, it is not really surprising for the side stability (due to the important width), but it is more surprising at longitudinal level. Although its small length and its truncated nose, the Compact floats very well and goes never pearling, even at low speed, in choppy water or when going through the shore break.
This Compact is even more for us one of the more dynamic freeride boards for planing in light breezes ! We tried it with a 7.2m2, a 8.1m2 and even a 8.5m2 when the wind have felt done around the 10 knots, and we could have use without any problem a sail having a surface larger than 9.0m2 ! Indeed, the hydrofoil is widely sufficient, as the brace delivered by the very good 48cm fin.
It is really funny and pleasant to reach the planing so easily and with such efficiency, with a so tiny board. It is like you are sailing on a board just coming from a cartoon !
The Compact 126 has made a very good entry on the market and represent for us a very novel type of board, absolutely versatile, accessible to everyone, pleasant, with incredible performances in a wide range of conditions. And in addition, it goes in the trunk of your wagon car, with no need to low the front seat !
www.windmag.com
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Specification:
Volume: 126 litres
Length: 204cm
Width: 83cm
Tail width: 55cm
Weight (Wood): 7.3kg
Weight (Dram): 7.8kg
Supplied fins: Drake Race 480 and Drake Freeride 380
Sail range: 5.5m2 to 9.5m2
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