Fehmarn Surf Festival: The most important equipment innovations at the 2025 Surf Festival
Tobias Frauen
· 29.05.2025
Shortly after the 2025 Surf Festival kicked off, many test boards and sails were already on the water - even if the wind was barely strong enough to glide. Touching and feeling was still important to many of the testers. There was also plenty to experience in addition to the material showcase - the boot Düsseldorf Pump Foil Challenge, morning yoga with Sascha Lange, talks and tips on stage, free surf courses from the German Armed Forces, who also brought impressive equipment with them and much more!
We visited all the exhibitors on the beach and show you the most important innovations and highlights here!
Duotone
There's a lot going on at Duotone, including the chance to take a look at the 2026 boards in the "Dark Room", albeit without a camera. Among the new products already unveiled are the blast boards in E/LAB construction, which are only made to order. The Duke SLS is a new sail, which borrows its name from its Freemove brother, but is a lightweight power wave sail, as developer Marco Lang explains.
Flikka
Flikka Boards has made a name for itself over the past few years with high-quality custom boards, and the Slovenians around shaper Luka Jures will have a few sample boards with them at the surf festival. "As we produce specifically for our customers, it's always difficult to show a range at events," says the Flikka team. The bright yellow freestyler on the stand was also built for the new team rider Youp Schmit. Flikka has also expanded its lettering and design - the range from which customers can choose their favourite graphics fills an entire poster.
Goya
Even if the colourful Goya Banzai is the absolute eye-catcher, the new products at Goya are mainly boards. The Carrera, a sporty freeride board, has been positioned between the Volar freerider and the Bolt freerace board, as importer Tom Eierding explains. The Volar has been given a new design and has been made lighter, partly by removing the plugs. Fresh from the factory, the Nitro 2 waveboard will be at Fehmarn!
GunSails
After the double vintage, GunSails has revised its entire range of sails for 2025. In addition to the Spectro, which replaced the previous Vector and Exceed models last year, the freestyle sail Yeah is also new in size 5.0. At the request of the team riders, designer Renato Morlotti has developed an intermediate size. By omitting a Dacron sheet in the luff, it is intended to offer more power, and the leech has also been revised. All GunSails booms are also new. According to product manager Philipp Grzybowski, the centrepiece is a 200 gram lighter front piece with an aluminium bracket, while the large slalom forks have also been given a new bend curve.
JP-Australia and NeilPryde
The focus at JP is on the new S-Tec design, with a wave board, a freestyler and a slalom board on display at Fehmarn. These boards are particularly light and come in a custom look without much finish. In addition, there is the complete range from the Freestyle Wave to the Freerider Magic Ride and Super Ride to the light wind thick ship Super Light Wind to try out.
Mojo Customs
Mojo Customs from Hungary will be showcasing several models at the Maui Ultra Fins stand. Shaper Bertalan Czik has a boxing freeracer, a sporty freerider, a large freemoveboard and a waveboard. All the exhibits are just examples; the brand can cater for almost any shape and design requirements. The declared aim of many boards is that they work well in less than perfect conditions, glide and glide well and are also easy to ride in chop.
North Sails
A large part of the North range is available for testing on Fehmarn, especially the newly designed X-Over. Instead of black, the sails are now grey because the laminate now contains sustainable Dyneema fibres, as Yannick Mittas from importer Liquid Sports explains. The Free Speed, a freerace sail without camber, will also be there on Fehmarn!
Point-7
The refreshed design of the freemove/freestyle model Sly adds a splash of colour to the black sails from Point-7. As usual, sail designer Andrea Cucchi has reworked the details of almost all models, and the freerace models AC 2 with 2 camber and AC 0 without any camber will be available for testing on Fehmarn.
Sailloft Hamburg
Familiar colours and familiar models: At Sailloft Hamburg, only the 2-camber Passion sail (tested in the current surf 6/2025) and the Curve are completely new this year. Alongside its brother Quad, the Curve is designed as a power wave sail with five battens and is intended to get planing even earlier thanks to its higher profile in the lower area.
Starboard/Severne
Balz Müller's new signature model "Rad" is one of the eye-catchers; the sail was designed at the request of the movement artist for freestyling with both a fin and a foil. For the average surfer, there is a new edition of the Gator freemoving sail and the new Moto freeracing sail (also tested in surf 6/2025). The other models, from the S1 to the Blade and the NCX, have been revised to increase the range by adding more surface area to the top. "So you need fewer sails," promises Stefan Edtmayer from Starboard/Severne. In addition, all lines can be used with fewer booms and masts. It is striking that almost everywhere at Severne, you only see RDM masts; according to Edtmayer, SDMs are only intended for the very large race models. The Carve and Go boards share the same rocker line, but the Carve is aimed more at intermediates with more volume thanks to a thicker outline. The Freeracer Futura and the Freemove models Kode and Severne Dyno are also on show, as are the Severne Fox and Severne Verso.
Tabou/GA-Sails
According to Konstantin Weier, the most important innovation at GA is a new arrangement of the sail tracks for the sportier sails such as the Matrix, Cosmiq and Vapor models. "With the membrane sails, we worked with continuous panels, which designer Peter Munzlinger then also tried out with the mono film models." This means that the individual panels are continuous and the batten pockets are sewn on. In terms of boards, the DaCurve and DaBomb wave models now come with five fin boxes and have been supplemented with additional sizes for very light or very heavy riders. The Rocket Plus has also been revised in detail.
WeOne
The entire WeOne range has a new design this year, with each model line having its own colour in addition to the typical black and turquoise. The shapes have all been revised and the range has been extended to include more sizes, as shaper Gerhard Scharl explains. WeOne now also offers its own fins, which were developed together with fin expert Jörg Sonntag and are built in coloured G10. However, the most sought-after item on the WeOne stand on the first day was a new board under the HiFly label - more on this later!
