Windsup

Windsup refers to a SUP board with a sail—a combination of a windsurf board and a SUP board—allowing you to paddle on calm days and enjoy the power of the wind on breezy days. Inflatable windsup boards fit easily into even a small car, as the board packs into a standard SUP backpack and the entire rig (mast, boom, sail) goes into its own convenient carrying bag. Assembling the rig takes only a few minutes and requires no tools. Our Mistral LT is a hard-shell, full-featured windsurf board, but you can also paddle it thanks to its high buoyancy. The most important feature of a windsup board is a good center fin, which enables sailing upwind.

If you already have a SUP board without a mast base, you can use Duotonen’s handy accessories to convert almost any SUP into a windsup board. You’ll need a removable center fin, an inflatable sail, and a mounting adapter for the sail, all of which can be found in our selection below.

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Which Windsup Equipment Is Compatible?

In windsup setups, all sail packages are interchangeable as long as the mast adapter is the same. For example, you can use a Mistral sail on a Saimaa SUP Windi board or vice versa. The sail from a hard Mistral LT windsurf board also works on windsup boards. Exceptions are Duotonen inflatable sails, which are not compatible with windsup or hard windsurf boards. Likewise, hard-shell sail packages do not fit Duotonen adapters, as the strap-mounted removable mast bases are not designed for heavier sail/mast combinations.