up hit the lake and practice, practice and practice. Light wind stuff tunes ya muscles and is great for ballance, and will certainly help you get you ready for the windy days beatlloydy said... Thanks...yep..forgot about board and weight ...currently 160L JP Funster...and 90kg tho aiming (as we all are) to lose 10kgs over the next few months (too much time recently deskbound). Re the board...one of the forum guys said once I get proficient and can move to a smaller board....you can get away with approx the same volume as your weight? .e.g 90kg=90L board....any thoughts? PhilSWR said... As touched on by Tomp, a 5.5 or so wave freeride sail will get plenty of use- both in the suds and on flatwater, and will probably be your most used sail. As for sails and mast. Whilst I have a mess of different sized mast (which needs thinning out), I mainly use my 4.3 RDM Ezzy as this can rig my 5.2 and 5.7 wave sails, and also my 6.6 cammed GP2 (Hot Sail Maui) for going fast on flatwater. So 3 sails, one mast, one boom pretty well covers all my sailing- flatwater and waves. Oh, and two boards- one for waves and one slalom board (which is work in progress) for flatwater. Keep it simple if ya can- though that can be a tough ask. PS- Just get out as much as you can. If it's 8 knots up hit the lake and practice, practice and practice. Light