Formula Windsurfing has been the World's most popular racing class over the last eight years. The formula is simple: cutting edge equipment, the World's best and most prestigious racers in a format that covers a wide wind range starting from a mere 6 knots of wind. No international Formula event has ever been cancelled since 2001 due to lack of wind. Formula Experience is its international feeder class, a class that utilizes the same format on equipment that is simply more affordable and more accessible. Board designs are frozen for four years and they need to be built in a more durable and less expensive construction. Formula One Design - the natural progression For the next official Olympic Windsurfing Class in London 2012, the International Windsurfing Association, the Formula Windsurfing Class, the Formula Experience Class and Starboard are pleased to support the launch of a new One Design racing format: Formula One Design. Svein Rasmussen: "Windsurfing has been an Olympic sport since the LA games in 1984 when Stephan Van Den Bergh won the Gold medal on a Windglider. At that time the participants were not allowed to use a harness or to pump the rig. Since then things have changed step by step and Olympic windsurfing is catching up with the sport of windsurfing. The current RSX is actually a planing hull and potentially the link to bring Olympic windsurfing from a Hybrid stage to a fully planing sport. The technological developments over the years in the Formula Windsurfing class has reduced the planing threshold, matching the current 6 knots wind minimum for Olympic windsurfing. The Formula windsurfing class has been the most popular windsurfing class over the last 8 years and no events have been cancelled due to lack of wind since 2001. It was thus with great pleasure Starboard accepted a proposal from the Formula Windsurfing class to provide a one design package solution for the Games." Why Formula for the Olympic Games? Proven equipment: because it has been developed on the racing track over the last 8 years. Simpler equipment: no daggerboard, no moving parts, maximum reliability and maximum production consistency. Lighter equipment: the board is almost half the weight of the current Olympic board More exciting: 100% planing, 100% more marketable More popular: Formula is windsurfing's most popular racing class More spectacular - its what windsurfers want to see Easier to transport More affordable: it's two thirds of the cost of the current Olympic Class Deeper distribution: buy what you need from any Starboard shop or distributor More focus on racing, less on pumping More feeder channels More appeal to windsurfers More appeal to the public More appeal to the media More appeal to sponsors It's time to bring planing windsurfing to Olympic Windsurfing.

	The equipment Model Volume (litres) Length (cm.) Width (cm.) Tail Width (cm.) Weight (kg.) Fin box Starboard Formula 162 One Design 162 228 100.5 82.0 9.34 Deep Tuttle Size (cm.) Rake Angle Weight (g.) Starboard Formula One Design Custom Deboichet fin 70 +6 840 Luff (cm.) Boom (cm.) Cams Battens Starboard Formula One Design 11m2 sail(for men) 570 265 3 7 Starboard Formula One Design 9.5m2 sail(for women) 537 244 3 7 Length (cm.) Weight (kg.) Carbon content Bend Starboard Formula One Design Blue Line 540 mast (for men) 540 2.55 75% IMCS 32 Starboard Formula One Design Blue Line 490 mast with 20cm tip extension (for women) 490 2.20 75% IMCS 29 Size (cm.) Weight (kg.) Construction Starboard Formula One Design Blue Line boom 260-270 (for men) 260-270 4.0 monocoque alloy Starboard Formula One Design Blue Line boom 240-260 (for women) 240-260 3.7 monocoque alloy Size (cm.) Adjustment steps (cm.) Construction Weight (g) Starboard Formula One Design 36cm extension 36 2 alloy 630

Starboard windsurfing equipment's technology has proven to win more championships than ever. The innovation and quality gear developed will take your sailing to a new level when you encounter the wind and waves any place any time.