Shapes 2007
Witchcraft boards are designed in the north of Fuerteventura. The advantage of the north shore of Fuerte is that there are over 10 different spots for different wind and swell directions within 10-20 minutes drive. Maybe there is not such a clearly defined wind season as the other Canary Islands but all over the year there is an at least as high average of sailing days if you can also make use of less windy conditions when the quality of the waves is usually better. We have conditions from 10 to 40 knots, from off- to onshore with waves from 0,5m to +6m. And we sail in all of it.
As a custom board company we have always used the most expensive materials and all of our team riders use 1 or max. 2 wave boards, consequently increasing the need for boards with a big range of use even more.
The boards get tested by our team and clients all over the world and we get a lot of direct feed back from sailors at all skill levels.
We spend practically all our time designing, building and testing wave boards, not just in between the free-move-style-ride-race-slalom-formula boards.
Our (r)evolutionary progressive rail shape gives Witchcraft boards the advantage in added up sailing performance over any other boards. Because this rail shape gives an extra 2cm of rocker when putting the board on its rail we have been able to reduce the rocker of the planing area with more than 1cm compared to traditional or new age wave boards without losing any maneuverability. In the rear half our rail becomes sharp, adding to early planing, speed, grip and responsiveness to turning impulses.
Witchcraft Tri fin system: With more fin area and less leverage it significantly improves performance, which is especially of advantage in less than ideal conditions such as less wind, on shore, smaller or shorter waves, currents. Earlier planing, much better upwind, more maneuverable, more drive, more playfulness. Can still be converted to single fin for lean back-blasting or big wave down-the-line wave sailing. For anything else our tri fin is the best. You can catch more waves and do more with them. More
The Drop Shape Outline is relatively short and has an intermediate width, a wider nose and a narrower tail, this gives a big windrange combined with good maneuvrability and a long railline for hard bottom turns. The swallow tail gives grip and drive.
The bottom shape is a no V concept with a subtle double concave. A V bottom is easier to sail but is less responsive and needs a wider board to get the same planing ability, a single concave planes better and is more responsive but more technical to sail. Our no V-double concave has the best of both worlds.
Wider stance: Higher performance, more drive, more control, more maneuvrability. Spread them legs baby!
In the summary the boards are nearly as early planing and going upwind as fast-tail/ freestyle-wave boards, as controllable, grippy and radical as side shore wave boards and as maneuverable and easy to sail as “compact style” wave boards. We simply don´t need 3 ranges of wave boards as we have it all in 1 board.
You´ll have the ride of your life. Anywhere.
| Shape features | Benefits |
| Parabolic Fast Rocker | Early planing, Top Speed, control, ease of sailing, controlled responsiveness. |
| Progressive Rail shape | Maneuvrability, speed, early planing, control, total grip. |
| Drop Shape Outline | planing, control and maneuverability |
| Tri fin | Early planing, upwind ability, maneuvrability, drive. To give the highest performance. |
| Single fin | Top control at high speeds, old school lean back sailing. |
| Flat with subtle double concave bottom shape | Early planing, grip, responsiveness, control. |
Swallow tail |
Grip and drive. |
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Will Ward making full use of Witchcrafts progressive rail
