Bolt 4

Hello Fransico, I have a Bold 4 in 119l. At the moment I have the mast at the back and the foot straps in the front middle position. The board is mostly used on the lake with sails of 6-8.5 as recommended. I weigh 75kg and am 165cm tall. Can you give me any suggestions for improvement? Many thanks Günter

Günter

Bonjour Francisco, je suis très intéressé par la bolt, je pense qu\'elle correspond parfaitement a mon style de navigation. Mon problème est de choisir le bon volume. Je navigue beaucoup sur une fanatic hawk ltd 124 litres de 2016 . Elle passe très bien partout, je navigue en mer et en lac , en mer elle est géniale. Elle est préconisé pour des voile de 5.5 à 8.4 mais l\'idéal pour moi est 7 mètres en moyenne, 6.2 mini et 7.8 grand max. J\'aimerais soit la remplacer par la bolt 129 pour étendre ma plage de navigation sur un seul flotteur, soit compléter la hawk par la bolt 139 pour naviguer avec 7.8 et peut-être une 8.5 no cam .
Mon gabarit, 1.87 m et 80 kg
Je te remercie d\'avance de tes conseils.
Marc


Bonjour Marc,

Thank you for reaching out and considering our gear.

I believe I would go for the BOLT PRO 129; this should be sufficient to hold your 7.8 and extend your riding days while (With all respect to your other board) upgrading your most used size board.

Please let me know once you get it set up and ready to ride it. Base on your stats, I would Fit the back strap back and the forward in the middle back or forward. Mast foot back.

All the best,

Francisco

Hi Francisco, Eddie at Big Winds told me it was a good board and all I would need in Wyoming for flat water. Plenty of wind, I sail all the lakes and reservoirs around S.E. Part of the state where I live. Transplant from Santa Barbara, miss the surf, and I sail alone. Tried a lot of race boards and keep going back to the bolt! Your gear is the best of the best thank you for all you’re efforts in making it available! When will the carbon iteration be available so so can ride the range with a new bolt? Thank You Charles coffee Vedauwoo Wyoming

My story is different as Nick's is. I am over 60 and I used to surf with slalom boards. Had some issues with iSonic 67 in strong winds and then I tried Bolt 107. Total new experiance. Relaxed with race sails, fast end enjoyable. So much fun, that I am looking to change big & medium slalom boards for Bolts. Got the kind information from Goya windsurfing over FB, that there will be a new shape and design for 2022, so I will have to wait. And waiting won't be easy . . . . .

I’m writing this review as I guess a lot of people are in a similar situation as I am.
I’m a nearly 50 year old ‘dad’ and have left my boards and sails in the garage 15 years ago. Back in the days I was 15kg lighter, sailed every day it was windy, landed some back loops and was used to sail very small boards (65-72liters) with big sails.
Since a couple of years I’ve been trying to get into windsurfing again, but my old board was too small and the boards I’ve tested didn’t do what I wanted from them. In the end somebody convinced me to buy a 95 thruster wave board as I needed the volume. The board did turn surprisingly well for a 95 litre, but it felt large on the feet; the rails didn’t work with the small central fin (or at least not with my style of windsurfing; I had to change the standard 19cm fin for a larger 22cm) and getting it planing was a nightmare. This made I found even more excuses not to go windsurfing.
Another important detail: windsurfing is actually a sport, in the past it never felt like this as I was younger and sailed 150-200 days a year. After my 15 years’ break, I found myself trying gasping for air and with concrete forearms after only 20 min on the board.
This year I will turn 50 and last year I’ve decided to take part in the ‘Defi Wind 2020’ as a birthday present, realising that I needed some new gear and some serious training. I started training (read windsurfing again in sep 2019) on the 95l, I became better again, more or less back in shape, but it never felt good, until the day I took my old Fanatic Goya 74l waveboard and although it lacked quite some volume it felt as if I never stopped windsurfing: I weigh 90kg and the board planed faster than the 95, was a lot easier to control, incredibly fast and turned by just looking at it.
Good thing living in Tenerife is that we have a lot of rental centres and so I decided to go to TWS to test some new boards. I needed a free race slalom or slalom board and as I was at it I also wanted to change my wave board. I’ve tried several boards, but the ones I liked best were the ‘bolts’ from Goya. I’ve been sailing on the 117 and 107 in 25knots with a 6.2 and although the 117 felt a bit too big (I never lost control though), the sensations were incredible: volume where you need it, incredible acceleration, good control and it gave me the feeling I went fast, a feeling that I was missing on other more freeride orientated boards.
So decision made, I was going to buy the bolt 107 (2020) and when I was at it I also ordered the custom 3 pro 86l (2019). The bolt had given me such a good feeling that I completely trusted the goya guys.
Bolt 107:
2 weeks ago first time on the water: 107 bolt (38cm fin) and an also brand new Flight sails Havok no cam 6.7 free race sail, new goya carbon boom, longer harness lines… everything new, which made it a perfect recipe for disaster: foot straps too large, harness lines too far back, too much downhaul … but even like that and after the first catapult, the sensations where great. After a few laps I went back to the beach, made the straps smaller, moved the harness lines, left the downhaul for what it was and went back on the water. Did a few pretty fast laps and noticed my gps was not connected. Did some more laps and had a run at 28knots (52km/h) which is not bad considering everything was brand new, not trimmed right and I was sailing on the Atlantic with waves and chop . As I haven’t been sailing on a slalom board for over 25 years, gybing it was quite a challenge, until I found out that you just have to engage, go for it and keep on going. You can push really hard and that makes the board only turn faster, but it never blocks or loses its grip. Tomorrow’s wind forecast is promising (25-30knots), so I think I will take my bolt 107 to the harbour on flat water and the 30-35 knots should be in reach.

Compre la de 127 lts nueva, es excelente tabla!!! va muy rápida y controlada

Picked up a 97 and 117 2020 model bolt a few months and could not be happier with my choice. The boards are performing perfectly and give me the exact mix of exciting slalom performance (my previous boards are slalom boards) and the added control of freerace. They are as fast for me as my slalom boards, so no complaints there. My experience with the whole goya team and my local shop has been superb and has added alot to my whole goya experience. They make me feel part of the team!

Foiling session (https://vimeo.com/351911277) with the brandnew 2020 Goya Bolt - 127 liter. Super happy with this board for both regular windsurfing and foiling.

Regular windsurfing: it planes early, the majority of volume in the back of the board gives confidence to step back and into the foot straps, and it goes fast! Board is light and gives that crisp feel on the water!

For foiling: again early planing quality helps to get up to that critical lift & release-speed. The 127 liter is also nice wide in the back (suits my NP glide wing well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1VPRu1no8

I surfed the bolt 105, 115 and 125 at Dunckerbeck Pro Center in Bonaire. The boards are absolutely amazing, super fast! Jibing with these boards is so easy and fun to do. The boards are very lightweight and jumps are easy to make. I liked the 115L the most because it holds up the best when there are a lot of small waves like on lac bay Bonaire.

Wow. Just Wow. What an amazing board.

I rented it for three ~20+ mph days at OBX. The Bolt 105 was instant fun. I put a 5.4m2 E-Type on it and was blasting out for miles away from shore immediately. Once I had the rental sail dialed in, I was the fastest person on the water. I was completing my jibes on the first tack. Before the end of the first day, I was planing away out of my duck jibes. The board was so easy to sail, yet it was super fast and maneuverable. With the 5.4 fully powered up, the board was very stable. I didn't have to pay attention at all. I had a well-chosen weed fin from my stash that paired well with the board. I have been sailing performance gear for decades. This is by far the most fun I have had on a mid-sized board. Amazing. It made the week. Oh, and landing high-speed skipping jumps (not going high) off the swell was a breeze. The tail never went out on me.

I sail with a lot of back foot pressure. This seemed to work well on the Bolt. The fin I was given was good, but I found the board did better with one of my own fins (Tangent Dynamics). They were similar in length/depth, but mine had less area and the leading edge was more vertical. When the board would spin out on me, my fin seemed to help the board catch back on track more naturally. The rental fin didn't do this for me.

(I also tried a Proton 116. I liked it as well, but for different reasons. In comparing the two, though, the Proton took a much more active approach to sailing. I had to pay more attention to my jibes -- setting the edge took more focus but rewarded with a very powerful turn. Once the Proton was on a plane, it was definitely faster than anything I've ever sailed in those types of conditions with a sail like the 7.3m2 S-Type. For a weekend warrior that likes to go fast, though, I would choose a Bolt over the Proton every time. The Proton didn't behave as well when not planing, for instance.)

I wish I could have tried the 95 and 115! And I really need to try this board on freshwater as that is where I will be doing most of my sailing for the time being.

I sailed the 2018 Bolt 115 and 125 at the Dunkerbeck ProCenter in Bonaire this past week and absolutely loved it! I've never had a board that was this easy and fast to get to plane – especially the 125l. To my opinion, it is a lot faster and more fun to sail than the SB Futura. I am sold and stoke! Cudos also for the Proton 136: even sailing in slightly higher wind than intended with only a Mark 7.2, this board was flying and remained easy to control and still great to jybe. Loved it! While the Mark are great sails, please design 2-camber freerace sail range! That would be an absolutely awesome combo with the Bolt collection.

Bought the 2018 135L for slalom and to start foiling. As a slalom board it sails as advertised. But as a foil board it has been amazing. I was thinking 115L but the Goya team advised me to go big, and that was the right choice. It allows me to more easily rig for the gusts. I've only had 14 days foiling so far, but can attest that the board is super fun to sail, crashes very softly, and holds up quite well to the abuses of foiling.

Today was pretty windy so I was on my 4,7 and 90ltr FSW. But the wind dropped significantly in the evening so I put the Bolt together with 4,7 and 38cm original fin which seemed to be horrible combination of gear but never mind. And I was impressed.
Very quick to plane. Easier than with Volar. If the Volar is freeride board on steroids then Bolt is Volar on steroids. Very nice jibing even with such a long fin. Very nice and soft riding through the chop. Very easy to keep nose down, but very easy to make some chop hops. Bord is much livelier than Volar and with higher top speed and and going upwind very easily. I could close and sheet in even on my 4,7 wave sail going upwind without significant loose of speed.
It is unbelievable how the board planes through the luls.
It was only 30min ride on underpowered 4,7 but this board is relly dream.

Thank you for your help

Best regards

K

El Martes me llegó la tabla 115 la usao en el Rio y me parece excelente opción , muy buena respuesta y maniobrabilidad.Yo la arme con 6,6 Mark
Y para me peso de 70 esta perfecto, creo que la qullia de 42 es un poco grande ,40 sería mejor.
Es la tabla del año , todos estaban pendientes de la performace.

Muy conteto con la compra