It's been more than 10 years since the GO board was first introduced. These original wide-style, full EVA deck, all-round fun designs marked the beginning of the modern windsurfing era by bringing comfortable, accessible windsurfing to everyone, everywhere, anytime.

With the new GO Sport models, these accessible and high performance shapes are now also available without full EVA decks, making them lighter and more responsive for the freeride windsurfer.

Why go wide? With extra width, the GO boards simply give you more stability and early planing. The GO 155 for example, has so much stability that many motivated people go for it as their first time board, learning and progressing all the way to advanced levels. With extra width also comes more power and early planing ability: as you progress, the GO boards give you some of the highest performance levels you can get from a windsurf board. With their full EVA deck, they provide exceptional comfort and the carry handles make them easy to transport.

These are the secrets behind the GO board's success and its number one status as the World's most popular board over the last ten years: they are easy and comfortable, people can learn on them and yet they will grow with its rider as he or she progresses to the highest levels.

The largest GO board, the GO 175, is a dedicated GO design that provides the most stability and it is the easiest to learn on. With its short length, its wide outline and when fitted with the supplied Shallow fin, it becomes a good platform for learning and progressing. It is also the GO size that has most racing like performance when fitted with the larger racing fin (also supplied), making it the most powerful and earliest planing GO model for more advanced windsurfers. With extra volume, it is also the perfect family board: kids can play on it, jump on board, learn, experienced adults can blast up and down with full power. The GO 175 has footstrap positions that will cater for the total beginner, progressing sailors and advanced windsurfers.

The GO 155 is based on the same concept as the GO 175, but it is one size smaller making it the better choice for those who want a more fun freeriding board without that much compromise on stability and ease. Like the GO 175, the GO 155 has footstrap options to cater for the total beginner, progressing sailors and advanced windsurfers.

The GO 144 starts to become more pure freeride orientated, yet it remains wide and stable enough for windsurfers that are already getting better. From this size and down, there are no more beginner footstrap options, only intermediate and advanced options.

The GO 133, the GO 122 down to the GO 111, are more performance orientated freeride machines. They are fast and fun, with a wide wind range, early planing performance and class leading stability. Multiple insert options remain, which allows progressing windsurfers to tune the board for maximum planing ease, or for more advanced windsurfers to tune the board for maximum power and performance.

The GO 111, 122, 133, 144 and 155 share the same shapes as the Futuras.

New construction
For 2009, the GO collection introduces a new variant of Starboard's Tufskin technology: using a new manufacturing process known as A.S.T. , the GO boards lose their outer plastic skin to be replaced with a half-deck wood layer that improves the board's rigidity without a weight penalty. The rest of the board's skin remains the same: it is made from layers of 3-dimensional 400g glass mat wetted out with an expanding epoxy resin system, which creates a thick, durable and tough skin

Summary:

• The original wide-style, all-round fun designs
• Improved ergonomics
• Easy, progressive, comfortable and high-performance boards for all
• New GO Sport range
• New GO 111 size
• New Tufskin A.S.T. construction
• New deck concave and a centre of gravity that is shifted back
• The GO 111, 122, 133, 144 and 155 share the same shapes as the Futuras .

Specifications Model Volume (litres) Length (cm.) Width (cm.) Tail Weight (cm.) Weight (kg.) Sail range (Msq) Fin Fin range (cm) Fin box GO 111 111 240 68 43.1 8.80 5.0-8.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 380 S-Flex 30-42 Tuttle GO 122 122 244 72 47.3 9.20 5.0-9.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 400 S-Flex 32-44 Tuttle GO 133 133 247 77 49.2 10.00 5.0-9.5 Drake R13 Race SL 480 S-Flex 40-50 Tuttle GO 144 144 246 79 50.0 10.70 5.0-10.0 Drake R13 Race SL 480 S-Flex 42-52 Deep Tuttle GO 155 155 249 85.0 59.5 11.95 5.0-10.5 Drake R13 Race SL 520 S-Flex + Shallow 410 48-58 Deep Tuttle GO 175 175 253 91.0 62.4 12.40 5.0-11.0 Drake R13 Race SL 560 S-Flex + Shalllow 410 52-62 Deep Tuttle Tufskin weights +-6%. Sail ranges and fin are recommended indications. Model Volume (litres) Length (cm.) Width (cm.) Tail Weight (cm.) Weight (kg.) Sail range (Msq) Fin Fin range (cm) Fin box GO Sport 111 111 240 68 43.1 8.40 5.0-8.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 380 S-Flex 30-42 Tuttle GO Sport 122 122 244 72 47.3 8.75 5.0-9.0 Drake Freeslalom Swift 400 S-Flex 32-44 Tuttle GO Sport 133 133 247 77 49.2 9.45 5.0-9.5 Drake R13 Race SL 480 S-Flex 40-50 Tuttle GO Sport 144 144 246 79 50.0 10.20 5.0-10.0 Drake R13 Race SL 480 S-Flex 42-52 Deep Tuttle Tufskin weights +-6%. Sail ranges and fin are recommended indications.