STARBOARD RIO S Starlite entry-level
Modelljahr: 2024
RIO
ENTRY-LEVEL WINDSURF BOARD
THE SMART CHOICE
The ultimate windsurf board for entry-level and windsurfing schools. With its sleek outlines, the Rio board offers exceptional upwind drive, ensuring a successful first day on the water. Its extended waterline, combined with Long Tail Technology, delivers effortless gliding and early planing.
Once you’re up and planing, the Rio board delivers an exhilarating and liberating experience as you ride the contoured aft deck, where the cutaways maximize your planing pleasure.responsive ride and intuitive jibe. Wider nose, long cutaways, optimized profile and efficient rocker line all improve your ride thanks to more glide, stability, traction and ease of planing.
CONTOURED DECK SHAPE
The Rio’s contoured deck shape makes it the easiest windsurf board in the world to get into the footstraps. As riders progress and shift back on the board, gaining more speed and power in the sail, their feet naturally align with the inboard footstrap positions.
UNIQUE LONG TAIL DESIGN
With additional area behind the fin box, the Rio boards not only plane earlier but also maintain stability during the transition onto the plane. There’s no need to struggle with the tricky technique of overcoming the initial hump. This unique feature allows riders to effortlessly and magically achieve planing without a steep learning curve. The board accelerates and propels forward, naturally placing the rider in the perfect planing position.
BAT WINGS
The wider section of the tail, known as Bat Wings, provides improved glide, directional traction, and parallel lines. This feature, first introduced in the Phantoms, also enhances planing power.
FULL EVA DECK
The Rio boasts a large, soft EVA grip on the deck, ensuring comfort and safety. Enjoy a secure grip without worrying about cuts or rashes. The nose area, where the boom tends to drag, is free of EVA. The Rio boards feature multiple footstrap insert positions to cater to all levels of sailing, from beginners to intermediates and advanced riders. They’re also equipped with the latest generation of matching Drake footstraps, featuring size indicator tabs for easy adjustments.
SHALLOW 41
The Rios have a Drake Shallow fin, delivering optimal power and directional traction in a compact design. This fin is perfect for learning and progression.
LOOKING FOR A SAIL?
Enhance your beginner or progression board with Starboard SUP Windsurfing sails. Lightweight, powerful, and durable, these sails are an excellent choice for entry-level windsurfers, offering versatility and performance.
Starlite
OUR BEST VALUE OFFERING
Light and with a nice crisp feel on the water. It’s ideal for the new windsurfer looking to buy their own progressive entry-level board. The Rio Rhino and the Rio Starlite have a soft EVA deck finish and two rows of footstraps: one row positioned for progressing riders and the second for full-planing performance. It uses 0.6mm Australian pine wood with glass fibres to combine premium technology and a quality finish in a value package.
*Available sizes: S, M and L
The unique shape and the four fins generate maximum drive and acceleration, bringing an awesome production of speed, flow and power to your sailing in all wave & wind combinations.
Stable and extremely responsive, the Quads are most rewarding when driven off the rails for powerful yet smooth turns. The four-fin grip gives a very connected sensation to the wave yet they still have the ability to lose the tail when extended through the lip for a rotational move.
For 2015, subtle changes producing significant differences in performances have been introduced on three models in the range.
The Quad 79 and 84 have their Vee brought forward of the fins. This produces more precise rail-to-rail control in the bottom turn allowing for quicker trajectory changes as well as facilitating cutbacks as the board rolls off the Vee to set the forward rail.
More outline curve was added between the footstraps of the Quad 74 for quicker and tighter turns but also allowing the board to project more vertically up the face of the wave. - See more at: http://www.star-board-windsurfing.com/2015/products/boards/quad#overview
The unique shape and the four fins generate maximum drive and acceleration, bringing an awesome production of speed, flow and power to your sailing in all wave & wind combinations.
Stable and extremely responsive, the Quads are most rewarding when driven off the rails for powerful yet smooth turns. The four-fin grip gives a very connected sensation to the wave yet they still have the ability to lose the tail when extended through the lip for a rotational move.
For 2015, subtle changes producing significant differences in performances have been introduced on three models in the range.
The Quad 79 and 84 have their Vee brought forward of the fins. This produces more precise rail-to-rail control in the bottom turn allowing for quicker trajectory changes as well as facilitating cutbacks as the board rolls off the Vee to set the forward rail.
More outline curve was added between the footstraps of the Quad 74 for quicker and tighter turns but also allowing the board to project more vertically up the face of the wave. - See more at: http://www.star-board-windsurfing.com/2015/products/boards/quad#overview
The unique shape and the four fins generate maximum drive and acceleration, bringing an awesome production of speed, flow and power to your sailing in all wave & wind combinations.
Stable and extremely responsive, the Quads are most rewarding when driven off the rails for powerful yet smooth turns. The four-fin grip gives a very connected sensation to the wave yet they still have the ability to lose the tail when extended through the lip for a rotational move.
For 2015, subtle changes producing significant differences in performances have been introduced on three models in the range.
The Quad 79 and 84 have their Vee brought forward of the fins. This produces more precise rail-to-rail control in the bottom turn allowing for quicker trajectory changes as well as facilitating cutbacks as the board rolls off the Vee to set the forward rail.
More outline curve was added between the footstraps of the Quad 74 for quicker and tighter turns but also allowing the board to project more vertically up the face of the wave. - See more at: http://www.star-board-windsurfing.com/2015/products/boards/quad#overview
