Original Lyrics: The Vision is the culmination of four year’s work by Liquidlogic designer Shane Benedict. He’s taken velocity rails from surfboard design to give the Vision “insane edge-to-edge looseness and drive.” Designed to gain speed on the rail, this feature also gives the boat extra bite when carving. The Vision was designed to have incredible secondary stability and slicey ends to make for easy cartwheeling in the hole or on flats.

When You Feel Like A Nut: The Vision feels extremely loose because it sis so easy to keep flat to the water without accidentally engaging an edge. For the same reason it’s a smooth front and back surfer with the bow or stern (whichever is upstream) down and charging for the trough, not bouncing all over the place.

This stable platform allows you time to tweak your position and angle to launch the next move.

The Vision will “butt” bounce but the biggest tricks of the test were from an aggressive carve on the new rails. Some testers thought the Vision was the best carver of the bunch and said it felt like a squirt boat (if anyone but Brad Sutton remembers what that feel like).

The Visions are virtually the same lengths as the Crazy 88s, but they seem to whip around a little quicker in the holes and in the air.

When You Don’t: Why bother changing something if it’s not broken? Look to find the same simple and effective outfitting as last year. Tall paddlers who couldn’t get inside last year’s Big Wheel will be tickled pink (and might try requesting a boat in that color) now that Liquidlogic seems to have worked out the sizing for the Visions. Still, tall paddlers don’t get the advantage of the beanbag bulkhead that the rest are realizing is pretty cushy innovation. When playing around in little holes and on flats, the Vision is the smoothest end-to-end since the Skip and Pop (short the six inches of extra plastic).

Pro: Short. Light. Ergo outfitting. Stable wave rides.

Con: Pokey down the river.

Length = 6'1"  Width = 24.25  Depth = 13"  Volume = 44gal  Cockpit = 18.75x33.25  range = 110-170lbs