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If you want maximum water time, you can buy a board for every discipline - or one for everything. With the inflatable IFoil Crossover model, manufacturer STX now wants to offer a Affordable multiboard (799 euros) , which should be suitable for various sports. With a length of 7'8 (233 centimetres) and a volume of 170 litres, the board should provide enough buoyancy for children and young people to windsurf without any problems.
To make this practicable, boxes for small centre fins were installed in the underwater hull, which should reduce lateral drift to a minimum. A thread for the mast base plate was glued into the deck for mounting the sail. Due to its compact length - from a windsurfing point of view - the board should, in our experience, be easy to turn even with small sails under 3 square metres. The fins mentioned benefit the suitability as a wingsurf board, because even when equipped with a wing, the lateral drift in light winds is kept within limits.
A foil can also be mounted, so nothing should stand in the way of your first wing experiences. We would only put a big question mark behind the proclaimed suitability as a stand up paddle board, because at just over 2.30 metres in length, good straight-line stability is likely to remain wishful thinking. However, as a SUP for kids or a bathing island for the summer, you should be able to have a lot of fun with the board.
Stephan Gölnitz
Deputy Editor in Chief surf
Stephan Gölnitz comes from Bochum and had Holland as his home windsurfing territory for many years before moving to Munich in 1996 for the job of test editor at surf magazine. The materials engineering graduate worked as a surf instructor on the Ijsselmeer during his studies and competed for several seasons for the Essen sailing team in the Surfbundesliga and the Funboard Cup. He completed a traineeship at surf-Magazin in the test department and since then has actively accompanied almost all tests on the boom and for more than 10 years also as a photographer. Stephan has covered many thousands of test kilometers, mainly on Lake Garda and in Langebaan, but also in Egypt and Tobago. He gets his hands on over 100 new sails and boards every year as his company car. Privately, he prefers to surf with a foil on Lake Walchensee or “unfortunately far too rarely” in the waves. SUP is Stephan's second passion, which he pursued for several years at numerous SUP races. Today, he prefers to paddle on river tours with family or friends - even for several days.
