Des infos sur ces nouvelles Falcon Speed de Peter de Wit sur le
forum Fanatic :
"Hi,
The Falcon speed is a very fast board so for Fanatic there seemed to be no need for anything else..
But Fanatic decided to go for a 2 board speedrange..
OR you can savely say a 3!! board speedrange with the 85 as the "big" dragracer I have already reached unbelievable high speed's on this 58 wide board, I tested this board in the proto stage and was confident the board was more than a knot faster than the 86 but in competition is was even faster...
The two boards in the "pipeline" are a 51 wide and a 45 wide.
Becourse I have been testing and helping Fanatic creating these 2 speed's I will try to answer.
The 51 wide is a medium to highwind speedboard for use in hairy choppy open water speed conditions
And low wind 7.0 speed on superflat speedcourse water.
The 51 is very controllable and easy in the chop, it accellerates like the Falcon speed and keeps the momentum even if the wind is dipping or the chop is trying to breakdown the foilshape of the sail (the bottom is making the chop disapear keeping the sail as still as possible)
In superflat lowwind 7.0 conditions the board sit's high on the water making it easy to keep friction as low as can be.
The big advantage of the 51 is the way it keeps momentum for very long highspeed run's.
This board compairs best to the Falcon speed or a low volume version of the Falcon 80/78 and lower in Volume than most 53/54 speedboards. "
The 45 key words: highend orientated, control, high topend and a chopbreaking bottom.
This makes this "the" board ot set all PB's sharper on the hardcore speedcourse.
(This board compairs to the F2 missile xs and the SB 44/JP 45)
Both board's feel softer than the Falcon Speed, both boards are less fin sensitive.
With the 85 (58) 51 and 45 I'm very confident Fanatic has a very competative SPEED range.
Fanatic is planning the release in spring 2011"
"As ALL Fanatic's these two have been shaped by Sebastian Wenzel I have been communicating a lot about these two boards with him but he combined all the info into these two designs.
I have tested the Falcon Speed and the 51, every time the range of the 51 suprises me, it is simply faster or as fast in ALL conditions the Speed would be used in..
Do not forget one thing here, the Falcon speed was a real mono CC bottom this bottom is very powerfull the 51 has about as much power but is slightly wider with a lot of extra control build into this shape, I would not like to compete in the French cup with the Speed but with the 51 it would be so much easier!
51 sounds a bit wide but this board feels very small...(you even need the same amount of power from the fin, I use the 51 with a 25 cm Caspar speed for 6,2)
The 45 is the Record hunter this board could also work for light guy's with tiny sails or in 40+ knots wind's.... but normally the 51 would be so much faster on the 500m competition course, becourse the control is perfect and the average speed is simply higher.
Plus, going back to the start in the french cup must be pretty fysical on the Falcon speed...the 51 has a bigger range.
The 45 and 51 are the same as a conventional 42/43 and 48/49 speedboard the extra wide is not affecting the pure speed negatively caused by the special bottom Sebastian has designed.
So If the Falcon 51 is in shop I would suggest: swap it for the Falcon speed!!"