RRD Barracuda LTD V2 2018 surfboard

STRAPPED-IN SPECIAL KITESURFBOARD

Designed, tested, and developed by Ralf Bachschuster.

With a slightly wider outline in the middle with narrow rounded pin tail to improve top speed, the Barracuda delivers great turning potential with plenty of grip at high speeds. The full mono-concave hull with heaps of rocker on the tail makes planing fast and holding control on choppy waters a breeze.

Developed and tested in Cape Town by one of the most influential and radical kiteboarders in the South African kite scene, the Barracudas are fast boards that were born to handle full power!

Features

• Slightly wider outline in the middle with narrow rounded pin tail to improve top speed and allow great turning potential with plenty grip
• Full mono-concave hull with heaps of rocker on the tail. Planing fast and holding control on choppy waters
• Thicker volume mid section in between your feet to allow floatation and keeping momentum at lower speed
• Thin rail profile on nose and tail to allow best grip at high speed and lower the volume to keep the weight down

Technology

The LTD construction was introduced two years ago on our surf and SUP board range. Built with a lightweight technology that allows flex, control, and scoop-rocker line accuracy. The board is built with a CNC EPS core of 20 kgs/m3 density, then laminated with 200 grms biaxial glass fibers and finished with a 55 grams carbon net over a bamboo stepping deck vacuum glued onto the board at 90 compared to the stringer length so as to avoid excessive stiffness onto the board flex.

So this construction is slightly lighter than the Classic PU, for about 300-400 grams, but the difference is not as much the weight, but it is stronger and has the EPS foam core. The EPS core makes the board more buoyant because the foam retains more air. The boards in the LTD construction feel alive! Not only because of their light weight, but mainly due to the added floatation. These boards were created specifically to ride strapless and are ideal for strapless freestyle. They are meant for riders that want a lightweight board that can also be controlled at high speeds.