HB-surfkite LAFAYETTE 6'1''

A pure surf shape for kite surfing, the board you need to be versatile for travel.
Its ideally distributed volume and excellent glide allow you to ride with a smaller kite with bold transitions and low speed landings.
Its stability makes it easy to ride without strap.
A board for every condition.

• Parabolic Balsa reils
• Squash tail
• EPS core
• Size: 6'1''-18 1/2''- 2 1/4''
• Weight: 3,0kg
• Volume: 27,2l

We are the first brand to use parabolic rails in Basla. The specific construction and choice of balsa for rails are essential for flex and performance characteristics. Constructed from laminated strips along the entire perimeter of the board, the rails offer incredible lightness, robust structure and an ideal reinforcement against shocks on the rail. The balsa allows the degree and flex rate to be controlled to maximize performance. Moreover, the long-term memory of flex provided by the balsa rails ensures the maintenance of a lively feeling over time.

Our EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) foam core is an essential part of HB-Surfkite high performance board. Our core allows for rapid direction changes and overall responsiveness during rail–to–rail turns. As one of our boards encounters chop, the bottom can morph subtly to absorb that chop rather than ping-ponging off waves like some other epoxy boards tend to.

The swallow tail provides more control in critical maneuvers, as well as at the beginning and end of each turn. When the board is flat on the water, it offers almost the same surface area as a squash tail and almost all its qualities in terms of speed and lift. When on the rail or on bottom turns, thanks to its central cut tail it penetrates the water easily.

Fiberglass is ten-times stronger than the epoxy resin that is used to hold it in place. Because it’s combined in a composite sandwich, it is capable of handling much larger inertia loads. Same material. Superior results. We use epoxy as a «glue» to bond components such as EPS foam, fiberglass and bamboo together, so our boards are stronger.

By using two layers of fiberglass and separating them with a thin layer of bamboo, we are able to allow load on the outer fiberglass to be distributed through the bamboo so a much larger area of internal fiberglass can contribute to bearing the stress. This is why our boards can be both lighter AND stronger.

Our graphics are smooth, using transparency to show our our high end technology. Black colour on bottom is the brand recognition sign, deck colour corresponds to model. Red for Lafayette and blue for Bonaparte.