Hi community knowledge bank,
A friend of mine has an old Tiga 2 sailboard which needs a daggerboard. Does anyone have one they'd like to part with or know where we might find one. This particular Tiga is a raceboard style beast and looks to be about 170 L, don't know much more about it. My friend found it lying neglected in someone's backyard that he was contracted to mow and the owners knew little about it other than it was originally a garage sale acquisition by someone in the family. I think my friend might take a more complete board if someone wants to offload one.
I'd love to have a Tiga raceboard. I've ridden one once and it sliced through the water like the proverbial hot knife through butter.
Back in the day there were quite a few tiga raceboards around, and they were reasonably popular on the racing scene- and fast. Funny thing is there are very few (if any) around today. It is fairly common to see F2 Lightnings, Mistral Equipes, Speed 250s etc of the same vintage- but no Tigas.
Not that I am an expert on the topic, but I never heard of a "tiga 2". Waiting for that photo.
Clarence
Hi Clarence & others,
I've attached some pictures, I can post up more if they help. (Pics are Daggerboard handle remant, board bottom, DB box internals, DB box, board top).
The board has lost its original art work, which was apparently pink and blue stripes ! There is a remnant of a sticker on the stern that says 'Tiga 2'. The board is 11 foot 5 inches long.
Ultimately, my friend just needs to get something that will work, so the real questions now are:
1. were daggerboards interchangeable across different Tiga models ? (We have seen another Tiga DB on a US parts site)
2. is there another brand that would fit i.e. were daggerboards somewhat interchangeable across different manufacturers ?
3. Is there anyone here in Australia that might/would have a generic daggerboard that might fit ?
At that length it is probably a tiga "speed". See this one on ebay which I think would be the same model, 1986-88 I would think.http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tiga-Windsurfer-Second-Hand-/221640367018?pt=AU_Sport_Surfing&hash=item339acb9baa.
From that range of boards in that same era of manufacturing (about 86 to 90 I would guess) the "fun cup" "speed" and "swift" would all have had the same daggerboards.
For the earlier and later models it is hard to say.
Here is a bit of interesting information on old Tigas. I can still remember that ad with Jenna from a Freesail magazine back in the day. 
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Tiga-Fan-Club-Forum-aka-fantastic-plastics
My guess would be these centreboards are near impossible to find and that other models are highly unlikely to fit. My suggestion would be one of the following (once you stop looking at Jenna's nice tan)
a) Make one up out of timber. The problem however will be making it stay down without some device to create friction on the side of the centreboard case.
b) find another board on ebay or gumtree as it may end up being less mucking around than finding an old centreboard that fits (even though that defeats the purpose of resurrecting the board).
Before you invest any more time on it check you have a mast foot that will actually work in the mast track.
Clarence
