Traveling with a Raceboard

So this friday I traveled to Miami to pick up my new Starboard Phantom 377.  I was quite nervous that they wouldn't allow my board on the plane as it exceeded American Airlines regulations by over half a meter!  Fortunately my fears where unfounded as the lady on the counter was extremely kind and helpful, I did pay through the nose to get in board but fortunately it made it to Cozumel in one piece and with no dings!


For the plane ride I kept the original factory packaging and used a DaKine SUP travel bag which fits the board (even with the batwings!) perfectly!!!

I a big thanks go to the guys from Isthmus Sailboards for their excellent packaging and shipping, as well as to the warehouse guys at Pilot Freight Miami, they even helped me unpack, inspect and re-pack the board!

Well, here's the unpacking of the beast:

 Goodies!

 Close up of Centerboard, fin and straps packages

 First glimpse! It´s pretty cool!

 Close up of the mast track "car" it seems a little flimsy (for a board in this class) and there is a fair amount of "play" in each of the mast track positions, I guess this is normal as the positions are fixed by a rotating, indented aluminum plate

 Close up of the tail, showing the batwings, they are really thin at the tail, looks like I´ll have to take good care of them!

The beast in all it´s glory!

It looks really fast, and that slanted mast track should really work,  Once I setup the footstraps, etc I´ll post more pics...

Happy sailing!