Raptor
2027 Raptor Liteside Womens Wakeboard
2027 Raptor Liteside Womens Wakeboard
The Darkside shape with a softer layup and lighter core — built so a lighter rider can actually load the board, not just sit on top of it.
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About This Product
About This Product
2027 Raptor Liteside Womens Wakeboard | The Darkside, Softened
Most women's wakeboards are a men's board with a different graphic. The Liteside is not. It takes the shape of Raptor's best-selling Darkside and rebuilds it around a softer layup and a lighter core, because flex is what actually changes how a board rides for a lighter rider — a stiff board simply will not bend under someone who does not weigh enough to load it. Soften it and the board comes alive at the speeds you actually ride at.
Key Technical Features
- ERC 1 Core Construction: A softer, more forgiving build than the Darkside's. Landings absorb instead of jarring, and the board flexes properly under a lighter rider rather than skipping across the surface.
- Feather Infused Hybrid Core: The lightness comes from the core, not from thinning the board out — which matters when you are the one lifting it in and out of the boat all day.
- Removable Centre Fin: In for tracking and control while you are learning to hold an edge. Out when you want the board loose and skatey across the flats.
- Progressive 3 Stage Rocker: Holds speed through the middle and releases off the wake — predictable pop rather than a board that either drags or launches you sideways.
- Bi-Axial Layered Glass: Glass laid in two directions, so the board resists twist as well as bend and the edge feel stays consistent as it wears in.
- TST Top Seam Rails: Raptor's rail construction, joining deck to base along the top seam — the join that takes the hit on every flat landing.
Why You'll Love It
This is a beginner-to-intermediate board and it is genuinely good at that job. If you are learning to get up, hold an edge and start crossing the wake, the softer flex forgives the landings you have not quite dialled in yet. Three sizes, 130, 134 and 138cm. Honest limit: if you are already stomping wake-to-wake and want a board that holds a hard cut, the stiffer Darkside or Severance will give you more back.
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Free Returns & Exchanges
Free Returns & Exchanges
Free returns are granted if you receive an item that is faulty, or is not as described.
We do not cover return fees if you change your mind or order incorrectly.
We only accept returns to us within 14 days of date of receiving, in the condition that you received it and we will happily exchange it or issue a refund. *Conditions Apply.
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Happiness Guarantee
Happiness Guarantee
We want you to be happy with the product you buy, so all our products offer a 12-month repair and replacement warranty for factory defects or manufacturing errors.
All warranty claims and repairs must only be assessed by the manufacturer and/or manufacturer's representative and will be repaired, replaced, or credited at their discretion excluding any shipping fees.
A valid proof of purchase will be required for all warranty claims.
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About Raptor
Raptor is the boardsports arm of Straightline Sports Co, an Australian family watersports business based in Echuca, Victoria. The range is built around what actually gets ridden behind an Aussie boat — kneeboards, wakeboards, wakeskates, wakesurfers, combo skis, slalom skis and towables — designed in-house by a team that rides the gear it draws.
The brand's reputation was built on kneeboards, where the Madhouse, Powerfish and Misfit are fixtures on lakes and rivers around the country, and it has since carried that same value-for-money thinking into wakeboards and skis. Raptor sits alongside sister brand Straightline, whose ropes and handles have been an Australian benchmark for decades. Stocked through more than fifty specialist dealers nationwide. Shop the Raptor range now at Welcome Boardstore.
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