AK NOMAD V2 CARBON DW WING FOIL BOARD 2025 - CLOSEOUT - 115 L

The Nomad is an intuitive and stable lightwind and downwind crossover board with effortless gliding capabilities. Perfect for catching long drawn out waves, downwinding, or getting up on the foil in the lightest wind with your wing.

With its optimized length and width, the Nomad features a parallel outline, volume distributed for flight, and a forward foil position that will allow you to keep the same stance as you paddle for take-off, and get up on the foil.

The deck has a gentle concave and lovely thin gently textured corduroy pad, the same as last year. The foil box position is notably far forward on the board, and long, allowing you to balance plenty of different foil systems quickly. It also meant you didn’t need to shuffle up and down the board too much to move between building speed in flotation and takeoff to foiling. This is an important feature on a longer, narrower board to allow the best fore-to-aft weight ratio and not load either your front or rear foot with excess pressure. The boards retain that flat rear planing surface from last year which promotes a nice clean release and takeoff; the tail seems to have been chiseled slightly in the newer version and perhaps the angle of the chine is kept straighter at the rear. The volume distribution is very even throughout the board, making it extremely stable considering its narrower width.

As a downwind board, these subtle shape revisions – extra length and narrower – make it feel more efficient through the water than the previous version, and far more purposeful for the discipline, and as a bonus there doesn’t seem to be much compromise on stability.

 In a wing context, these efficiency attributes carry over into a super fun full floatation board for lighter conditions. Instead of sizing up to a six or seven meter wing in marginal conditions, you could hop on this with a 5m and probably have plenty of entertaining fun with a more comfortable wing to handle, particularly in some small clean waves.