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Stand Up Paddle => Gear Talk => SUP Gear Reviews / Newly Acquired / On Order => Topic started by: burchas on October 11, 2017, 08:27:59 AM
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I recently got my new custom SIC Standamaran (S-16). I was eager to test it on a downwind run.
This past weekend opportunity presented it self, some good mix conditions and confused water, perfect!
Riding this board downwind is counter-intuitive, it rides like a surfski than a sup, there is no surfing this board
but it is fast, creepy fast...
https://vimeo.com/237733455
our forum friend off-shore organized this run. He is making a guest appearance in the vid.
I'll have some tech specs and detailed pics of the board soon.
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Thanks for sharing Burchas. It was awesome run (see separate post on the Downwind and Racing Section on the H2O run) to get a ride on your new machine!
I concur with Burchas in that this rides like a surfski, and has an unusual soft rolling bumpy feel as you head through the waves, i guess as you pass over the bumps. But really stable, and great fun... I want one!!
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What is it best for?
It doesn't look like DW is its thing.
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Standamarine......or Submarine? Looks like it goes underwater pretty easily :)...........
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What is it best for?
It doesn't look like DW is its thing.
Yugi, Take a look at the vid I just posted on the Downwind and Racing Section (subject "Introducing the H2O downwind run...") and you will see how good and surfski like it is downwinding. I got some good shots of Burchas just gliding away on it. I also jumped on board it with my headcam on and you can see how those two piercing pontoons just pierce through the waves in front like a surfski. It's a very different way of riding compared to a SUP, but once you get used to it, it just glides and glides...
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I recently got my new custom SIC Standamaran (S-16). I was eager to test it on a downwind run.
This past weekend opportunity presented it self, some good mix conditions and confused water, perfect!
Riding this board downwind is counter-intuitive, it rides like a surfski than a sup, there is no surfing this board
but it is fast, creepy fast...
https://vimeo.com/237733455
our forum friend off-shore organized this run. He is making a guest appearance in the vid.
I'll have some tech specs and detailed pics of the board soon.
I wanted one of these a couple of years back but since multihull were outlawed for racing, I didn't pursue it. A shame as twin hulls could be really fast on flatwater.
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I have this vision of myself trying to step back right into the gap between the cross beams.
Guessing it's awesome in upwind chop.
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Thought I read somewhere that multihulls need width between the hulls else the wave off one hull slows the other, or maybe that's more on sailboats?
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A nice video to watch. Never have seen a machine like that before. BTW, great background music for your video.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Night Wing!
dingfix, I think this applies here as well, this boat is fassst but I'd bet it would take-off without
wave interference.
ukgm, you're right, in flat water this machine is a killer! even-though I run it with a paddle 2 inches
shorter than needed ( it's very high on the water) I still get significant time difference than my Blackfish.
The rougher the conditions the more significant is the gap.
yugi, this is an unwind dream machine. The day I got it, there was a consistent 17knots winds
with brutal gusts. Normally I wouldn't go out of the protected water as it is just no fun. having tested this boat
in Maui in 22knots consistent headwind and crazy chop, I took it out without thinking twice about it. Did a 2 mile
upwind and than a quick downwind.
In mild downwind conditions, this boat will blow every board I know out of the water. It gets trickier when conditions
are steep, you really do have to ride it like a surfski or oc1, going around the bigger bumps with lots of angling.
The creator of the boat promote it more toward an M2O conditions but I have seen him scorching it on a very
lively Maliko run.
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I like that new toy burchas! ;)
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I like that new toy burchas! ;)
Me too :) Just in time for winter.
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Very nice.. but the word broach comes to mind watching it DW.
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Very nice.. but the word broach comes to mind watching it DW.
You are very right. I had the same feeling when just started to play with the steering when
angling around waves, especially since I sit very high on the water. As you could clearly
see in vid I ended up almost dead sideways on the face of the wave.
This boat has such an amazing secondary stability I never fell once due to broaching.
The only time I managed to get my self in the water was due to inadvertent steering engagement
on acceleration where the board reacted so fast my body didn't have time to respond and I went flying.
We'll see what happens in bigger conditions. The board is still a work in progress though, I'm modifying the
tiller to test different trim and I'm replacing the SIC dagger rudders with custom Larry Allison rudders, for
weedless action and better reaction.
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Looks like a very cool water craft to me. I saw a standamaran two years ago in a race. Fast and stable. And as you have pointed out seems immune to head and cross winds!