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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby davesails7 » Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:24 am

SupaEZ wrote:Carafino for sale came up on Ikitesurf about 3 1/2 hours ago
http://new.ikitesurf.com/classifieds/97 ... rderby=dsc
In Florida, damaged during shipping. Is this Arcsrule's board?

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby zfennell » Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:15 pm

davesails7 wrote:
SupaEZ wrote:Carafino for sale came up on Ikitesurf about 3 1/2 hours ago
http://new.ikitesurf.com/classifieds/97 ... rderby=dsc
In Florida, damaged during shipping. Is this Arcsrule's board?
I doubt it.
I dont think he has that much stuff on-hand to sell.
....unless he's taking a page out of mango's book :)

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby Arcsrule » Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:22 pm

not mine. I don't have the foils. I have the most ugly "pastel brown'' performance board and a white race board with an accordian style crunch on the bow due to piss poor packaging.

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby wind_rider » Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:06 pm

Arcsrule wrote:not mine. I don't have the foils. I have the most ugly "pastel brown'' performance board and a white race board with an accordian style crunch on the bow due to piss poor packaging.
I thought Carafino bashing wasn't allowed here :roll: :roll:

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby Don_C » Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:21 am

donchin wrote:I wonder why carafinos new stuff is not fast. .
I'm wondering why you think the new Carafino is not fast. In my experience it was plenty fast but felt a bit slower than my Augera, however that is very hard to determine for two reasons:

1. The only day I rode it I did not have a GPS and I did not ride my Augera that day to compare. The comparison would not be fair in any case since the Carifino wings I was using were much larger and lower aspect than what I am used to.
2. I have not ridden the Carafino, or know anyone with a Carafino, who has ridden with the high aspect race wings. All the Carafino owners here are pretty new at foiling and are sticking with the low aspect large wings.

We won't know if the Carafino foil and wing is fast until one of the top experienced riders gives it a go.

And, speed is not desirable for everyone. My Augera is crazy fast, stable and easy to ride. But even then, at my advanced age, the high velocity is a bit scary, and occasionally the high speed wipe outs can hurt.

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby wind_rider » Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:09 pm

Lol

If you have an aguera foil why would you bother with a carafino? Or even use the same names in the same sentense?

Aguera (as a product and industry personality) are the epitome of elegance like a thompson gazzele.

Carafino is like a honey badger

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby bipolarbear » Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:12 pm

wind-rider:

you had some issues with C and that's sad of course
we all know that by now...

but now you try to cover with dirt when someone else give a positive (kind of) review of C boards/foils?

you are for sure, a very, very, very, small person...

you are here just because the moderator is absent, or busy counting the views (or ads)

what a fuc... up thread. No wonder why so few are posting C reviews or related info ...

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby Robsw6 » Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:53 pm

wind_rider wrote: places like Hill Head known as the Agro capital of kitesurfing that have escaped this but where the council are getting large numbers of complaints about kiters ripping up the swim zone
Fair play re chasing up your dispute, but... it seems from the above tangent, you are actively seeking confrontation ?

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby Starsky » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:03 am

TheRussian wrote:it seems from the above tangent, you are actively seeking confrontation ?

preposterous!

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Re: Carafino Updates: General Topic

Postby Robsw6 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:29 am

Starsky wrote:preposterous!
possibly.... seems Steve may not have read:
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