MODEL: Easyride 2008 M, L

DESCRIPTION: Just what you need to learn. No excuses, if you want to start windsurfing the Easyride is the BEST board to have. Undisputed n°1 board in the market for schools, the Easyride has become the most popular beginners boards in the world! The new Soft Deck technology allows the boards to feel even more safe and comfortable for the people who start windsurfing!

Coming in two sizes, Large and Medium, where the 180 lts Easy Ride M is a basic improvement board that in combination with the Easy Ride L will complete the learning package. Easier to plane than the L , the M gives you the feeling of acceleration and power Jiibing. The boards feel more alive and less stable under your feet and you immediately start to re-act towards active sailing. The M is the basic next step that introduces the serious windsurfer to the new world of passion! The new Soft Deck technology allows the boards to feel even more safe and comfortable for the people who start windsurfing!

Design features:
The new Easyride M is a scale down of the Easyride L. Same dimensions of the previous year, the outline is now more rounded with wider lines especially towards the nose area to improve stability and tacking ability. The rail shape is now sharper , improving the upwind performance. The Flat section of the scooprocker line has been extended even further , to give a better a NONACTIVE planing capacity. You wait for the gust, do not pump on your sail and the board will start planing

Easyride M

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"Evolving from easyriding"

One of the best selling boards of 2004-2005 has been re-designed and improved. The EVA/ASA technology with a new Soft Deck allows to offer a easy-approach board that can be used for evolving from the EasyRide boards to the new freeride boards. The new retractable "Allgeier" daggerboard system allows to the lightweight sailors to immediately learn onto this board, and progress to more advanced funboarding in one shot! The perfect impovement for the schools and ws centers!

What to improve from 2005:
Better upwind performance
Better Planing without pumping
More stability for tacks and jiibes
Better Daggerboard system

Our test team results:
The new 360 Evolution is simply a pleasure to ride. The new deck shape and the new outline are making this board even more fun to ride. Speed and accelerations are similar to a sandwich board, even if the resistance of the finishing forgives many mistakes. The balanced mix between floatation and performance makes the 360 a perfect board to progress in your jibes and allow some freestyle basic manouvers! The new daggerboard was the missing piece to allows beginners' use onto this all-terrain toy!

Design features:
The 360 Evolution is a little longer and has the same width of the previous year model. This allows a better stability during tacks and jiibes. The rail shape is now sharper , improving the upwind performance. The Flat section of the scooprocker line has been extended even further , to give a better a NON-ACTIVE planing capacity. You wait for the gust, do not pump on your sail and the board will start planing immediately as the wind increases! The tail volume has been increased so that the footsteering is easier when you are underpowered A new detractable daggerboard system has improved the approach to beginners .

Evolution 360

Dimensions: 255 x 75cm
Fin: Maui Fin 40 SX
Volume: 155ltrs
Fin Box: Power
Weight: 9.5kg (+/- 6%)
Technology: ASA
Sail Sizes: 5.0 - 7.5
Price: £699 (ASA £749)

Dimensions: 236 x 56
Fin: New Freewave 23
Volume: 80ltrs
Fin Box: US
Sail Sizes: 4.0 - 5.7