Concept, development and shape: Bruno André /Pascal Gerber
Target - Fill the 0-15 knots / less than 8 m/s, days with the super-glide (and excitement) of a sailboard and later, who knows, create a simple and all-round class.
Customers - The summer-holidays sailors who already know how to windsurf, those who want to sail on lakes, and lovers of course-racing.
Why does not this already exist - Very technical sailboards have already existed 20 years ago, and they were shining in light air.
Since then the knowledge of fast windsurfing shapes has evolved a lot. Still, only the flattish planing boards benefited. Today all boards offered to the market are pure planing boards, even if a few of them provide some glide in the non-planing 0-10 knots conditions.
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The nose shows a true bow and a rather high one. The cross section is then morphing into a planing hull with a flat tail. This is a thick board,18 cm., and a wide one too, 76 cm.
A modern high-tech construction has allowed us to achieve a 13 kg. weight for this well above 250 litres board. The dagger-board is 100% carbon-fibre, it is very easy to raise and lower with one foot.
Upwind, the A-H-D Tactik sails exactly like a modern racing yacht. It requires an angle of heel and then needs to be blocked on her rail, in order to start gliding effortlessly.
On a reach, with the dagger-board up, it works exactly like a slalom-board and gets on a plane from 10 knots of wind.
With such a Sailboard, the purest skill in making his board glide and plane both rule. One has to move on the deck and find the right body-stance to constantly adjust both lateral and longitudinal hull-trim and find an optimal speed.
