Starboard has set the pace in board technology and performance for over a decade. Our winning team is participating in all major international events. They even make their own challenges like the Hawaiian island crossing by Bart de Zwart who also won the prestigious 11 city tour initiated by our team rider Anne Marie Reichmann. Connor Baxter, Zane Schweitzer, Sean Poynter, Annabel Anderson, E.J. Johnson, Arthur Arutkin, Dave Muir, the list goes on and more riders are joining. Our goal is to win as many events as we possibly can, this clear motivation helps us when we design and test all our different boards models.

Starboard last year brought Brushed carbon, the Worlds first full Carbon PVC sandwich wave boards into the market and introduced the very first precision molded wood veneer boards already back in 1995.

Starboard was the first brand to introduce full deck EVA deck grip to surf, windsurf and paddle boards. Starboard is taking the lead in the whole wide and short board revolution in Stand Up Paddleboarding by offering boards up to 39” in width and down to 6’6” in length. Three years ago we brought the stand on top kayak concept to the market with integration of kayaking and windsurfing in the K-15. We are proud to work with Jim Drake who not only designed the current fastest manned plane, the X15, 40 years ago, and the Starboard K-15 3 years ago, but also co-invented windsurfing back in 1967.

Thanks also to our watermen/designers Scott McKercher, Svein Rasmussen, Brian Szymanski, Peter Cox, design manager Andrew Miller and chief shaper Nimit Promjan.

Our experience helps us understand that the only way to stay ahead is to work harder and more efficiently, year after year.

With 17 years of experience in cutting edge windsurf development, Starboard sets the very highest precision standard. Critical segments like rockerlines, rails, V shapes, concaves and board thickness are carefully monitored and checked throughout the production process.

As we are located only 45 minutes away from our main supplier we are able to follow up on production on a daily basis.

Three years ago Starboard introduced the non abrasive deck traction Startouch. This new traction texture ended the need for surf wax and is now used in Brushed Carbon, AST White and as nose grip on the silver and wood edition boards.

EPOXY or polyepoxide is a thermosetting epoxide polymer that cures (polymerizes and crosslinks when mixed with a catalyzing agent or hardener). Most common epoxy resins are produced from a reaction between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol-A. Starboard uses high grade epoxy resin for laminate bonding in all boards.

PVC is the first foam material specifically formulated for a marine environment and is a poly vinyl chloride (PVC), isocyanate blend. Starboard uses the high strength PVC foam in Brushed Carbon sandwich boards and around all insert areas in all boards.

WOOD Starboard uses 0.6 mm 510 kg /m3 Australian Pine veneer. This very consistent uni directional natural resin rich wood grain has a quality of light weight, low epoxy uptake and good impact resistance.

EPS or Expandable Polystyrene contains 95% air and 5% polystyrene. The blowing agent used for EPS foam is pentane gas which does not contain any chlorine atoms as CFC’s. The EPS production process begins with pre-expansion where the EPS beads expand 50 times in volume by the heat of steam, forming according to the shape of the EPS mold. Starboard uses fused EPS as foam core in all SUP boards forming the highest quality EPS in the market.