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A little speed testing SB AllStar 14x23 and other boards
FloridaWindSUP:
Our local shop got a shipment of 2017 Starboards including a 14x23 AllStar and a 12'6x24.5 Allstar for demo. That brought more people than usual to our shop team practice last night. Some of us did the demos formally, as a speed test.
400 m one way. 1 minute rest. 400 m return. Take the speed average of the paired runs. Then take a longer rest, then repeat the test with another board. Make sure you redo the first board later to make sure you weren't biased by being fresher on the initial run.
These were my results:
Board SPM KPH
SB 14x23 Allstar 63.25 10.14
14x23 RP 2017 64 10.24
12'6x23 Hovie GTO 63.5 9.38
SB 14x23 Allstar 64.5 10.13
I didn't have enough daylight and energy to include the 12'6 AllStar in the test. Anyway, I was glad that my Riviera RP was, by a small margin, #1. Being more familiar with it probably helped, though. The full strava data for me and one of my teammates (who did test the 12'6 SB) are here:
https://www.strava.com/activities/857808564
https://www.strava.com/activities/857828055
Area 10:
Interesting. But what were the conditions?
It would hardly be surprising if a flat water oriented board like the Riviera was faster in flat water than the All Star, which is an all-conditions board, so will necessarily have compromised speed in pure flat water.
Chilly:
I recently got to paddle the 2017 All Star 14x24.5. It’s a big improvement in flatwater over the 2016. I don’t have data but could see that it slices through the water better. Also one of the things I didn’t like about the 2016 was that it tracked to good, but they moved the fin box about 6 inches forward on the 2017 making it more maneuverable. The only thing I didn’t like was the increase volume on the nose.
How did the stability compare between the two and any side by side pictures?
FloridaWindSUP:
--- Quote from: Area 10 on February 07, 2017, 04:43:18 AM ---Interesting. But what were the conditions?
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Good question. Conditions were flat water near slack high tide in a narrow river / canal. Only bumps were from other paddlers' wakes. Staying in the center part of the narrow river and threading the needle through some bends and overhanging trees and shallow spots was the only challenge. That made it helpful to have a feel for the way your board tracked and steered. I think I could plan my curves a little better on my own board than the others.
FloridaWindSUP:
--- Quote from: Chilly on February 07, 2017, 05:21:26 AM ---I recently got to paddle the 2017 All Star 14x24.5. It’s a big improvement in flatwater over the 2016. I don’t have data but could see that it slices through the water better. Also one of the things I didn’t like about the 2016 was that it tracked to good, but they moved the fin box about 6 inches forward on the 2017 making it more maneuverable. The only thing I didn’t like was the increase volume on the nose.
How did the stability compare between the two and any side by side pictures?
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The 2017 AllStar 14x23 was definitely not "too tracky". In fact it turned more easily than I was used to so I probably switched sides more when I was using it. I did not think the basic stability was any better than on my Riviera, and it may have been a little worse, which would make sense because the Riviera carries more width and flatness further forward. The other testers were split in their opinion's on the board's stability, but nobody thought it was miraculously more stable than the average 23 wide board. One area where I thought the AllStar's stability was good was when stepping back for a buoy turn. I'll try to get some side by side pictures.
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