2024 Starboard Rio Long Tail Rhino

Starboard Rio 2024 Rhino

Board Category: Beginner Windsurfing

Starboard Rio 2024 Longtail – The ultimate entry-level and School board – durable and easy!
For 2024 – Starboard has targeted the Rio Longtail model in Rhino construction as a price point board for mass appeal for learning to windsurf. It’s construction is great for Schools, camps and family situations where durability and ease of learning along with progressive skill development is the focus. Available in 3 primary sizes; Small, Medium and Large. It’s an affordable entry level board designed to help you learn how and excel in your windsurfing skills. Loaded with features and made rhino tough. The Rio Longtail has sleek outlines and offers exceptional upwind drive, ensuring a successful first day on the water. Its extended waterline, combined with Long Tail Technology, delivers effortless gliding and early planing. Once you’re up and planing, the board delivers an exhilarating and liberating experience as you ride the contoured aft deck, where the cutaways maximize your planing pleasure, responsive ride and intuitive jibe. Wider nose, long cutaways, optimized profile and efficient rocker line all improve your ride thanks to more glide, stability, traction and ease of planing.
It features a contoured deck shape for ease of footstrap use. It has a long tail design – targeting passive planing experiences coupled with it’s Batwing wide tail shape to help with achieving earlier planing and upwind drive. Durable ABS outer skin with double wrap on the rails – for added toughness.

Features:
- 3 primary size options: Small, Medium, Large (also Xl non-padded version).
- Large EVA color coded deck pad – helps identify foot position when learning.
- Rhino Construction Technology.
- Long Tail Design – for ease of passive planing and tighter turning radius.
- Contoured Deck – eases access to footstrap use.
- Bat wings – aid planing surface.
- Flat Vee to double concave bottom shape.
- Daggerboard system.
- 57 cm Daggerboard.
- Tuttle fin box.
- Drake Shallow water 41 fin (M/ L), 31 (S).
- Multiple footstap positions to cater to your abilities and progression.
- 4 Drake Foostraps included.

Sizes / Specs:
Rio S, M, L
Rio S = 295 x 79 cm - 196 ltr, 16 kg.
Rio M = 308 x 81.5 cm – 219 ltr. 17.2 kg
Rio L = 333 x 86.5 cm – 259 ltr. 19.5 kg.

Construction: 
Rhino Construction Technology. THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER ABS SKIN = The entire board is wrapped in a thick, tough thermoplastic polymer ABS skin (not to be confused with ASA), with a double wrap around the rails. FIBER GLASS = Fiber glass wraps the core to help increase the breakage strength and overall stiffness. Additional glass reinforcements in the standing area protect against heel dents. AS TOUGH AS IT GETS = A hard-shell plastic wraps the entire board with an overlapping construction around the rails for extra durability.