Great video! A lot of us weekend warriors are still using boards and sails from decades ago. Would love to see more unbiased reviews of the older equipment.

Moin Nils, do not forget how cheap the second boards are and you can effort a garage full of your dream boards from the past 😎 Okay, from my past 😏

Like many commented here I agree that a lot of people still use these older boards, so that makes these kinds of videos really interesting. It seems there used to be a lot more crazy ideas going on earlier, now more or less all new gear are very similar and probably you won't notice so much difference if you are not a pro.
What was very interesting was when you talked about the tail width! I ride a lot of older boards and they usually have a very narrow tail. This affects what kind of fin is good and also probably how it is best to sail them. That is a topic I would love to hear more about. For me I just find older board design better to sail, somehow I feel more comfortable on them.

Try the bic allegro with a dedicated fin

What I learned from Patrick Diethelm is that the board design changed due to the carbon fins and you now can give a lot more pressure on the fin (more outboard footstraps possible), without the risk of getting a spinout. The G10 fin caused more pinouts due to the flex of the fin. Maybe an idea to ask Peter Thommen if the board is designed to work with a G10 fin.

Waiting for part two... We like cut-outs in San Francisco. Our water gets super flat on flood tides and super swollen on ebb tide. Thank you :-)

It would be interesting to try a Tiger Slalom with a modern sail and fin. The first production board to reach 30 knots.

From my old days I remember, there was always a discussion about 'scoop, rocker or tailkick' ... today? I had a 'Cobra Gun(shaped)' in the 80s, much volume in the front, very thin at the end - fast and easy to ride

Still using my 1990 F2's. The underside of that "new" board looks like a lot on my F2 Starlit from 1990.

Thanks for all the videos. Very interesting. It is on the right level and you are talking about things I was always interested, but had no one to ask. Keep on the good work.

Back in the  in the early 90's I use to sail a Windtek custom speed board and a Bic Allegro ( both around 43mm in width). I had to treat my custom board with great care as putting even slightly too much pressure on the fin would cause it to spin out, resulting in some crazy high speed wipe outs. I found it quite frustrating as I always felt if only the fin did a better job I could push it a little more and go faster.  Interestingly the Bic Allegro (a really nice production speed board at the time), was quite a bit lighter, easier to get going and way more forgiving than my custom board. I havn't tried a modern speed board but that FF board you sailed looks really nice and those flat water conditions in the South of France look perfect.

Such a cool video Nils! Super clear and fun to watch you explain things so well. Makes me wanna hit the Palme spot again and dust off my old boards 😄 Thanks a lot man!

Definitely one of my favourite videos this- thanks.

Love these comparisons!

that is a very fair test. Not like others test from other youtubers I have seen so far. Very interesting to watch

cool video. what about to put modern fin on the old board ?

we have one starboard speed board with some interesting aerodynamic cavities before fins

yo, have still my "alpha speed needle 60n" in my garage, 60l, shape michael puchner 1989, pintail, speed record at 69km/h in production boards!

Fun Video! Thx

Nice video , Maybe the Naish Hybrid 2005 ? And maybe a speedrun on a old jp wave board and also adjustments for speed to optimize