F2 Axxis 278 96' : any comments?
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>mgir...@andrew.sca.usherb.ca (Martin Girouard) wrote:
>>I'm looking forward to buy a new board and I'm very interested by the F2 Axxis
>>278.
>Lehel /Martin
I've sailed it once but not in really powered up conditions. It's very
fast with my 150# on it and a 6.5. I'm going to try it again this
weekend if the conditions are right and I'll let you know.
Lehel Somogyi
>I'm looking forward to buy a new board and I'm very interested by the F2 Axxis
>278. I would appreciate if somebody could tell me about his experience with
>this board so far.
I have no experience with this board but I am also very interested in
it. The other day I was surfing the Net and I have got to a site where
you can find verbal description of the board by several people and
also ratings on a scale from 1-10.
The URL is : http://www.windsurfer.com/review-axxis278.html
Good luck,
Slalom (Lehel Somogyi)
Kevin Clark
>
>I'm looking forward to buy a new board and I'm very interested by the F2
Axxis
>278. I would appreciate if somebody could tell me about his experience
with
>this board so far.
Sailed one quite a bit down in Cabarete a few weeks ago. Not sure I can
be too specific, but i liked the board. Did not feel as light and turny
as a shorter board (say 265), but certainly planed up well and handled
the chop there with ease.
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KEVIN CLARK kcl...@prodigy.com
Stephan Lohrberg
> Axxis 278. I would appreciate if somebody could tell me about his experience
> with this board so far.
This board is really fantastic. It gybes very easy and it is even faster
than other slalom-boards of this class.
The 96-model is nearly the same as the 95. Only the design, color and the
fin is not the same. So you can safe much money by buying a 95-Axxis 278.
(here in germany I saved 35% money by buying a 95-board).
Bye, Stephan
ste...@popeye.extern.fh-hannover.de
Stephan Lohrberg,Hannover,Germany,+49/511/7851850
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>mgir...@andrew.sca.usherb.ca (Martin Girouard) wrote:
>>I'm looking forward to buy a new board and I'm very interested by the F2 Axxis
>>278. I would appreciate if somebody could tell me about his experience with
>>this board so far.
Thanks to Kitty Hawk Sports, Avon NC I demo'd the 96 F2 278 Axis all
day Saturday 3/23. Wind was 14-18 onshore at Canadian Hole. Kinda
mild B&J conditions but the board really flys. Tried it with 11.5" TA
Hot Dog, 11" TA Blade Weed, and 11" Rainbow Duffy . Used a 6.0
Spectro and was from slightly overpowered early to barely powered
later on. Board is very turny, goes upwind fairly well, and nobody
passed me, even the big guys on 6.5's.
Overall I liked it a lot, stays on the water really well for a light
weight like me 155#.
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sailquik
sail...@mail.ameritel.net wrote:
Snip!
>>Thanks to Kitty Hawk Sports, Avon NC I demo'd the 96 F2
>day Saturday 3/23. Wind was 14-18 onshore at Canadian Hole.
Kinda mild B&J conditions but the board really flys. Tried
it with 11.5" TA Hot Dog, 11" TA Blade Weed, and 11" Rainbow
Duffy . Used a 6.0 Spectro and was from slightly
for a light weight like me 155#.
OOPS!!! I was looking at the Spring '96 North/F2
literature and realized I was really on the 268 Axis,
not the 278. I'll check out the 278 next trip and let
you know.
See Ya So. o'the Bonner!
sailquik US 3704
F2/CFX Boards; North Sails/Masts;
True Ames/Rainbow Fins; Chinook Booms
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> mgir...@andrew.sca.usherb.ca (Martin Girouard) wrote:
> >
> >I'm looking forward to buy a new board and I'm very interested by the F2
> Axxis
> >278. I would appreciate if somebody could tell me about his experience
> with
> >this board so far.
>
> be too specific, but i liked the board. Did not feel as light and turny
> as a shorter board (say 265), but certainly planed up well and handled
> the chop there with ease.
>
> -
> KEVIN CLARK kcl...@prodigy.com
>
>
>
>>>>
conditions with fairly large rolling chop and it was great. Not as light as some but made to last.
Wolfram Pietzsch
the same, but I hope they improved the fin!!!. I liked the board but had spinouts
with it in the chop. In February I had a change to try the new Screamer II CSH and
prefer it by a country mile
S.H.G. van Heusden
Yes! I hired one in Greece (Rhodos) and had spinouts too. Because I'm
not too experienced in waves I would take a conventional board like
the Screamer. The Axxis is a 'teardrop' or no-nose board and the shape
makes it very difficult to get in a plane in the waves.
Ciao!
Stephan van Heusden
Philip Mann
>
> I tried the axis 278 last year in Cabarete (95 version). This year's shape is still
> the same, but I hope they improved the fin!!!. I liked the board but had spinouts
> with it in the chop. In February I had a change to try the new Screamer II CSH and
other one to look at is the Veloce 278. Let me know if you want more
info.
Philip
Wilzone
the big $$ for a screamer II is a sucker when this board is available for
$950 most places. Perfectly balanced in the air and on the water, this
board is finally a perfect replacement for the Electric Rock, which also
blew doors off the Screamer I. Funny how history repeats itself.