£598.00 – £789.00
Engineered to feel light in your hands, the 2023 Nova’s progressive swept outline and refined profile section makes it easier to handle and more stable when riding. Your front and back arm pressure is even, not backhand-heavy. The wingtip geometry and balanced dihedral also prevent oscillation side-to-side when gripping the front handle, riding downwind swell, surfing, or simply walking towards the water.
Description
North Nova Wing 2023
A wing with power when needed and a sweet spot so generous it makes hard things easy. Maximum low-end to get you up on the foil earlier. Top-end performance that lets you exploit gusty conditions.
Engineered to feel light in your hands, the 2023 Nova’s progressive swept outline and refined profile section makes it easier to handle and more stable when riding. Your front and back arm pressure is even, not backhand-heavy. The wingtip geometry and balanced dihedral also prevent oscillation side-to-side when gripping the front handle, riding downwind swell, surfing, or simply walking towards the water.
The new draft-forward curvature in the profile section generates more lift in the front of the wing. This makes transitions smoother so you can glide through turns effortlessly, and when combined with improved canopy tensioning, boosts Nova’s low-end power. A stiffer, more responsive airframe means the canopy stays clean through a wider wind range.
We’ve minimised flutter and created a clean trailing-edge release with reduced drag. Then, to ensure the wing remains stable and comfortable in overpowered conditions, we’ve tapered the leading-edge diameter, concentrating the stiffness in the LE centre and allowing the reflexed wingtips to dump excess power. Master of the upwind, glide through tacks, float through gybes, and lofty jumps with bonus hangtime. Whatever goal you’re chasing, the Nova will send you there faster.
Items Includes:
Wing, Wrist Wing Leash, Bag, Compression Strap, Repair Kit
Features
- Stable balanced geometry
- Maximum low-end power for instant up & go
- Swept outline with pulled-in tips
- Stiffer more responsive airframe
- Cleaner canopy and TE tensioning
- Load-bearing panel layout
- Bigger wind range
- Reduced overall weight
- Lighter feel with uplift for effortless transitions
- Tapered reflexed wingtips for top-end de-power
- Depowered trailering stability
- Wide-angle window positioning
- Versatile and easy to use
- Excellent loft and hangtime
- Independent dual-inflation pressure for strut and LE
Materials
- New N-HTRS High-Performance Canopy Material
- Durable and lightweight Dacron LE/Strut material
- Intuitive rigid GripLock handles (optional Carbon handles sold separately)
- New comfort EVA knuckle guard under depower handle
- New strategic STPU scuff protection
- New lighter-weight bladder material reinforced in high-wear areas
Technology:
Structurally Balanced Freeride Shape
Less shoulder, more sweep and more aggressive turn-in at the wingtips give the wing its stability. When you’re riding, your front and back arm pressure is even, not backhand-heavy. The wingtip geometry and balanced dihedral also prevent oscillation side-to-side when gripping the front handle, riding downwind swell, surfing, or simply walking towards the water.
Maximum low-end power for instant up and go
It’s now more in line with the wingtips, which helps to generate more lift in the front of the wing. The increased curvature in the profile section gives the Nova maximum low-end power, and instant up & go. Changing how the air-foil shape/section profile develops across the span of the wing has made the wing smoother to ride, because more curvature at the front of the profile allows for a more forgiving angle of attack. We’ve moved the centre of lift further forward ensuring there is always a smooth laminar flow attachment from the LE to the TE (no turbulence)– so the wing retains lift through all angle of attack changes. It’s more user-friendly and has a generous sweet spot. This means fewer micro-adjustments in your hand positioning and a lighter feel with uplift for effortless transitions. When you do a tack, it pulls upward and enables you to glide around effortlessly without any tail drop. It also contributes to the Nova’s excellent loft and hangtime
Stiffer, more responsive airframe
How they’re tapered makes the LE stiffer in the center and allows the tip to reflex and dump any excess power. The tapered wingtips also reduce the swing weight of the wing. It reduces drag from the wingtips, which also helps with the stability. And allowing the tips to bend slightly, keeps the trailing edge tight. The tension of the trailing edge and overall skin tension gives the wing more low-end power. But then on the high end, the ability of the tips to reflex away allows that excess power to bleed off. So you actually have a bigger wind range now than in 2022.
Cleaner canopy and trailing edge tensioning
We’ve minimised flutter and created a clean trailing edge release with reduced drag. From front to back and from wing tip to strut, everything’s tight. TE TENSION. To increase the trailing edge tension, we’re using a sailing term called take-up. Basically, where it’s loose, we pull the seam together to take out that excess shape where it’s flapping. It’s like dressmaking, you know, like making your pants fit. We do that in the software, rather than manually, so we don’t get a hook in the trailing edge. A hook in the trailing edge creates drag, making a wing very backhand heavy and stall a lot.
Revised panel layout
The new canopy layout gives more stiffness to the canopy and allows the load to be transferred through the canopy more evenly.
More about technology could be found at North
North Nova 2023 Specification and Sizes
Read our handy guide on how to look after your equipment here.
Shipping Costs
- UK: FREE standard delivery of 1-5 working days (usually 1-2 days) on all UK purchases over £79.99 – Upgrade to Express Delivery for £4.99 UK Orders under £79.99: £4.99 Standard, £6.99 Express
- Europe Mainland and UK Highlands & Islands: £14.99 on all items under 2 kg and £19.99 over 2kg
- Rest of the World and European Islands: £19.99 for small items under 2kg, £39.99 over 2kg and £69.99 for all items over 6kg. Fedex available as an upgrade option for all countries and the only option for Asia, Africa and South America
- Surfboards and SUPs have an additional £29.99 shipping cost. Due to a huge percentage which have arrived damaged we now only use reliable (more expensive) couriers
- Please note that Duotone products shipped to the US will receive a shipping excess of £250.
VAT (Tax) Free
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Returns
If for any reason you are unhappy with your purchase, you can return it to us in its original condition (with packaging and tags intact) within 14 days of the purchase date. We can either issue an in store credit for the item, send a different size or product if you would like an exchange or refund your payment.
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