THE HOVERCRAFT WOMEN

This is the Hovercraft Women Snowboard by Jones.

The powerful piste & pow board

Ideal for pow slashing, crud busting and slaloming trees

The Women's Hovercraft is an alternative freeride board who's nimble maneuverability and diverse performance has earned it a cult following.

It's unique, compact shape matches a short tail with a long sidecut so you can rip turns of any size. The Hovercraft is designed to be ridden shorter than your average freeride board as the trim shape packs serious surface area in a small package. For serious float in any snow condition, the Hovercraft features a directional rocker profile and a 3D Contour Base 3.0, and for added edge grip it has Traction Tech 3.0 edges. Fresh for 21/22, the Women's Hovercraft has a new look with a refined Engineered Veneer Topsheet and a black + transparent base plus laser etched topsheet markings that eliminate all solvent inks. Without any inks on the board, not even the sidewalls, the new Women's Hovercraft is the most sustainably produced board we've ever made!

Women's Hovercraft Snowboard specifications

Board Size (cm)	144	146	150
Board Weight	2,2kg / 4,84lbs	2,4kg / 5,28lbs	2,6kg / 5,72lbs
Surface Area (dm2)	36,51	37,41	38,93
Contact Length (cm)	89,6	91,4	95,1
Effective Edge Length (cm)	111,6	113,4	117,1
Tip Length (cm)	38,9	39,1	39,4
Tail Length (cm)	15,5	15,5	15,5
Waist Width (cm)	24,10	24,40	24,70
Underfoot Width - Front Foot (cm)	25,31	25,57	25,91
Underfoot Width - Rear Foot (cm)	25,03	25,30	25,64
Tip Width (cm)	28,9	29,1	29,5
Tail Width (cm)	27,6	27,8	28,3
Sidecut (m)	7,3	7,6	7,9
Taper (cm)	1,30	1,30	1,30
Reference Stance (cm/in)	53 / 20,8	53 / 20,8	55 / 21,6
Centered Stance (cm/in)	51 / 20	51 / 20	53 / 20,8
Insert Pack	Standard Pack	Standard Pack	Standard Pack
Stance Setback (cm)	3,0	3,0	3,0

3D Contour Base 3.0

Freeride focused 3D-base contours featuring an even balance of 7mm of spoon bevel in the nose and 7mm of spoon bevel in the tail. Spoon bevel starts at the rocker point.

Shape Tech

1. Traction Tech 1.0

Like a serrated knife slicing into the snow, Traction Tech improves your edge grip by adding multiple contact points along the running length of your board.

Traction Tech is a critical feature for rockered boards. Rocker improves glide in mixed conditions, but the decreased edge contact makes it harder to really lock into your turns and hold a solid edge. Traction Tech is crucial to offset the edge drift of rocker. - Jeremy Jones

2. Progressive sidecut

At the far ends of the sidecut, the radius is incrementally increased as the edge reaches the contact point. Gradually increasing the sidecut radius towards the contact point delivers smoother turn initiation and exit as the edge tracks in and out of the snow with a less abrupt transition.

• Blunt nose
• Directional flex pattern
• V-Core

Directional Rocker

A hybrid rocker/camber flex pattern defined by more tip rocker then tail rocker and camber between the bindings. The rockered tip floats the board’s nose and improves maneuverability while the camber underfoot provides edge hold and response. A slightly rockered tail maintains the power and stability of a traditional board but helps keep the tail catch-free initiating turns and landing switch.

"My experience is that most falls in freeriding start from the nose of the board – you either go over the bars in powder, the nose gets caught under a weird crust and tosses you, or you hit a hard tranny at the contact point of the tip and get bucked. Directional Rocker eliminates most of these falls." - Jeremy Jones

Built with the finest tech and materials

100% of our adult models feature high-end materials, construction technologies and sustainable manufacturing process. We accept no compromises in producing the most durable and sustainable snowboarding gear.

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Base

Sintered 8000 Base

New super durable material made from Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) and carbon. Base is easily repairable, highly wax absorbent and wicked fast.

Wend Natural Wax

Jones boards are ready to shred straight out of the shop and are factory waxed with WEND natural wax.

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Fiber

Biax fiberglass

A dual-direction, dual-layer, stitched fiberglass laminate that provides a fun, forgiving and snappy ride.

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Other features

Bio Resin

Bio Resin is a bio-based epoxy made with 27% plant-based carbon instead of petroleum-based carbon. The organic raw materials used to make bio-resin are co-products or waste products of plant-based industrial processes. Bio-resin requires 33% less greenhouse gas emissions to produce than conventional epoxy.

Oversized recycled edges

All Jones boards are made with oversized recycled steel edges for added durability and improved production sustainability.

Recycled ABS Sidewalls

ABS Plastic is one of the necessary evils of snowboard production. We improve the sustainability of our snowboards by using only recycled plastic.

Factory Tuned

All Jones Snowboards are factory de-tuned at the tip and tail so you can go right from the shop to the mountain.

Forever Flex

Forever Flex is a new manufacturing process that helps stabilise the flex and rocker of a board for its lifetime.

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Topsheet

Engineered Wood Veneer

New composite wood veneer topsheets. Wood veneer topsheets dampen ride and absorb board chatter.

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Woodcore

Classic Core

Full wood premium poplar core than offers fun pop, even flex and solid durability.