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Following up on my last post giving a buyers guide to choosing windsurfing equipment I came across a very useful tool for figuring out what windsurfing board, windsurfing sail & fin size you should have.
Whether you are just moving on from the learn to windsurf stages and trying to decide what your first windsurfing board should be or you are a seasoned pro trying to fill a gap in your windsurfing sails quiver, this interactive spreadsheet guide to choosing the right windsurfing boards, fins & windsurfing sails is really useful.
Windsurfing Boards
Fire up the spreadsheet in Excel, choose the ‘Board Size’ tab & enter your weight in KG or lbs.
The program tells you:
Windsurfing Sails
Move across to the Windsurfing Sail Size tab, enter your wegith in KG or lbs.
The program displays:
Windsurfing Fins
Move to the last ‘Fin Size’ tab, enter your weight in KG or lbs & sail size in sq metres.
The program calculates the recommended fin size for you:
Having checked through a few examples myself the calculations are pretty accurate to the real world. All credit to James Douglass who developed this number crunching monster. If you want your own copy of this great guide click the following link Ultimate Windsurfing Equipment Size Calculator
With all that data at your finger tips you should never be stuck trying to figure out what windsurfing kit you should be buying or sailing on!
That’s really cool! …….. I’ll collate each sail size to the wind strength so I don’t have to dither and procrastinate. So simple. Great stuff.
Glad to help. As you say, its so simple to get instant feedback on everything relating to sizing your windsurfing boards, windsurfing sails & fins. No more guess work.
I usually don’t post on Blogs but ya forced me to, great info.. excellent! … I’ll add a backlink and bookmark your site.
Thanks for the comment, its always good to here that people really appreciate the Top Windsurfing Tips & News that we provide.
What’s the url to get this excell file??
Thanks
Sorry… I meant to say that I need the FIN size calculator as it is not in the excel link…
Chris
wow… I’m a moron!
If you look at the bottom of the file there are tabs for baord and fin sizes!
Hey Chris, glad you figured out how to get to the fin size calculator. As you say, the info is split over different excel page tabs.
There is tons of info provided in this little windsurf board, sail & fin size calculation system – enjoy!
Wow… quite amazing really. Thanks and well done.
Nice work!! For racing and speed I think the used sail sizes are about 20% bigger