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The Viper range of Beginner Family boards is CAD designed with the input of windsurfing schools to both attract and keep beginners in our sport.

Short and wide is not the answer!
We listened to the experts when designing our Viper range of beginner/family boards – the vast network of windsurfing school organisations, with which Fanatic has long and engaging relationships. This provides us with great feedback to design boards that will both attract and keep beginners in our sport. These schools have immense experience with all types of beginners, their input directly influenced the Viper range - modern design concepts combined with proven experience. Long, stretched outlines and a finely- tuned CAD stretched power rocker line guarantee a long waterline. This is essential for maximum sub-planing performance and paves the way to first time planing experience. The perfect and equally balanced volume distribution makes Windsurfing fun and easy - from the very first step on the board. A daggerboard system vastly increases the sub planing performance, by offering additional stability and is the proven guarantee to staying upwind/coming back to the beach, critical for beginners and light wind cruising. Advanced windsurfers can also enjoy the Vipers as light wind freeride boards, with plenty of footstrap positions to choose from and an optional tuning kit to further boost performance.

To further increase the range of the Viper, Fanatic offers our exclusive tuning kit set:
With the help of our tuning kit, the Viper can be further performance tuned into a fun board, which can be used without a daggerboard. With this tuning kit, the daggerboard case can be closed on the bottom and on the deck of the board, whilst the daggerboard casing is filled with a specially made foam insert. With the closed daggerboard case and the 50cm Freeride GFK fin, the Viper can be converted within seconds into a lightwind freeride board, with a great performance potential! Content Tuning Kit: 1 Nylon bag, 1 Pvc foam insert, 1 Closing part bottom, 1 Closing part deck, 1 50cm Freeride GFK, 1 Quicklock fin screw XXL (70mm)

We have sailed the Vipers. Ask us how they will work for you.

All Gaastra and Severne rigs include Chinook Competition Alloy boom, Chinook one bolt rubber twist on foot, Chinook Powerbase extension, uphaul - all with free Beginner to Winner Instructional DVD. $49 upgrade for Fiberspar Reflex 3200 30% carbon mast on Severne Powerdrive, Gaastra Pilot or Gaastra Freetime rig.

Model

Length

Width

Volume

Weight

Fin

Sail Range

Viper 75

275 cm

75 cm

160 l

12.6 kg 27.7 lb

Powerbox 34 cm

2.0-10.0

Viper 80

280 cm

80 cm

190 l

14.8 kg 32.6 lb

Powerbox 34 cm

2.0-10.0

Viper 85

285 cm

85 cm

220 l

15.3 kg 33.7 lb

Powerbox 34 cm

2.0-10.0

VIPER - The original Family and Entry Level Concept!

These past few years have seen a radical change in Beginnerboard development, with a trend to produce the widest, shortest and biggest beginnerboards possible. A study of classic beginnerboards vs ultra wide shapes by the world´s biggest windsurfing school organisation, German VDWS, concluded:

- These short, wide shapes, whilst stable, are totally over-rated, if you consider that during a beginner course hardly anyone is getting planing, while these “ultra wide boards” are mainly developed for early planing.

- In non-planing conditions, even though very wide, these shapes are less stable over the width-axis, due to thinner rails, whilst the shorter length is remarkably less stable over the length-axis when stepping around the mast base.

- Due to the thinner rails, rounder outline and shorter water-length, these ultra wide boards are a little slower in non-planing conditions and have a pretty poor upwind performance.

- Boards without a daggerboard are unsuitable for schools. Side-fins or other daggerboard replacements do work but are too complicated to mount and are very fragile.

- Many average-talented windsurfers, who also learn without the “error-forgiving” characteristic of the Wide Bodies, find the subjective feeling (also during planing in comparison to classic shapes) very slow or even awkward.

- Most Widebodyboards are designed for 8 to 20 knots. In stronger winds especially in choppy conditions, these boards are fully at their limit and even scare experienced sailors.

The overall conclusion was that the classic style of shape, with a daggerboard and with the modern components of the Wide Bodies (soft-deck, increased foot strap options, a handle etc.) would be the prefect solution.

This is not news for us at Fanatic! We have stuck to our concept of narrower Beginnerboards, longer and of course with the all important daggerboard for many years now, once again proving that experience is always the key to perfect products. Sebastian Wenzel designed 2 new Beginner-/Familyboards that have all the shape details, technical features and quality construction that have made the already famous Viper range such a big success.

The new Vipers are based on a longer water length/straighter outline concept to ensure the perfect combination of volume, stability (in both length and width) and real upwind abilitiy. Both Viper´s have an extremely wide wind range for both planing and non-planing conditions, as well as excellent rig and foot steering characteristics for all condtions.

The most important point for any Fanatic board is range: wind range, rider range and level range, ie, learning and progressing on the same board for a substantial amount of time, another advantage of a narrower shape/daggerboard. To further increase the range of the Vipers, Fanatic offers our exclusive tuning kit sets.

Built in the robust, durable HRS technology (High Resistance Skin), the Vipers are extremely resilient, perfect for beginners, whilst the overall stiffness and weight is also optimal for light wind sailing. Also available in school versions without soft deck and with a thick HRS deck in same graphic look as soft deck versions.

Integrated Nose-Shield (optional): Thermo-formed part avoids damages to nose; also exchangeable (when damaged).

With the help of two different Tuning Sets, the Viper can be further performance tuned into a Funboard, that can be used without a daggerboard. With these Tuning Sets, the daggerboard case can be closed on the bottom and the deck of the board while it is filled with a specially made foam insert. With the closed daggerboard case and the long Maui Fin Co. Freeride fin, the Viper can be converted within seconds into a very early planing Funboard with a great performance potential!