Description
2025 Jones Hovercraft 2.0 Snowboard
The new Hovercraft is a modern manifestation of Jones' cult classic alternative freeride shape that features their most advanced 3D shape tech and groundbreaking recycled materials. The Hovercraft’s new shape keeps the floaty nose, compact tail, directional rocker profile and long sidecut that made the original model so nimble and stable, but its been supercharged with 12mm of spoon bevel in the nose for lightning fast turn initiation and a glide accentuating, speed boosting 3D hull in the tail. The new Hovercraft is also built with recycled materials from old snowboards making it the most responsibly produced board in the Jones line. Now a unisex model with sizes to fit riders of every body type, the one and only Hovercraft is ready to win the hearts of powder slashers and all-mountain rippers the world over once again.
Camber Profile
- 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.
Flex
- Flex Rating – 7/10 (1=Soft,10=Stiff)
- Forever Flex – All Jones boards are broken in using specialized machinery that mimics extreme riding use to help stabilize the flex and rocker profile of a board for it's lifetime.
- Directional Flex Pattern
Shape
- Directional – This board has a setback stance, directional shape, and directional flex pattern, so ride it forwards for optimum performance.
- 3D Contour Base 3.0 – Freeride focused 3D Contour Base featuring 7mm of spoon bevel in the nose and 4mm of spoon bevel in the tail. Spoon bevel starts at the rocker point.
- Blunt Nose – "How a board glides in powder, crust, corn or any snow more than an inch deep is dictated by it's front contact point and just past it. Next time you are in soft snow watch how much snow comes over the corner of the nose near the contact point. The billowing snow coming out from behind the tip means you are plowing through it which is obviously slowing you down. By adding a blunt nose you get the float benefits of a much longer nose without the 'snow plow' rounded tip and it's extra swing weight." - Jeremy Jones
- 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.
Core
- Reclaimed Core - High performance poplar and paulownia wood core featuring specially positioned embedded stringers made from reclaimed snowboards.
- V-Core – Slightly softer in the very center of the board for improved maneuverability and stiffer from the inserts through the tip and tail for stability and pop.
Laminates
- Biax Fiberglass – A dual-direction, dual-layer, stitched fiberglass laminate that provides a fun, forgiving and snappy ride.
Sidewalls
- Recycled ABS – ABS plastic is one of the necessary evils of snowboard production. Jones improves the sustainability of their snowboards by using only recycled plastic.
Base
- Sintered 8000 Base – New super durable material made from Ultra High Molecular Weight polyethylene and carbon.
Edges
- Oversized Recycled Edges – All Jones boards are made with oversized recycled steel edges for added durability and improved production sustainability.
- 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.
Additional Features
- 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.
- Wend Bio Wax – Jones boards are ready to shred straight out of the shop and are factory waxed with WEND natural wax.
- Bio Resin – All Jones boards are now built with bio-based, renewable epoxy instead of petroleum based epoxy. The raw materials used to make Super Sap Bio-Resin are co-products or waste products of other plant-based industrial processes. Producing Super Sap requires 33% less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional epoxy.
- 100% Solar Built
Binding Compatibility
- 2 x 4 Insert Pattern
Board Size Chart
Size (cm) | 144 | 148 | 152 | 156 | 160 | 164 |
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Effective Edge (mm) | 1129 | 1161 | 1193 | 1225 | 1257 | 1289 |
Tip Width (mm) | 297 | 302 | 206 | 311 | 316 | 321 |
Waist Width (mm) | 251 | 255 | 259 | 263 | 267 | 271 |
Tail Width (mm) | 280 | 285 | 289 | 294 | 299 | 304 |
Sidecut Radius (m) | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 9 | 9.3 | 9.6 |
Stance Range (mm) | 530 | 540 | 560 | 580 | 600 | 600 |
Rider Weight (lbs) | 90 - 10 | 90 - 140 | 110 - 160 | 130 - 180 | 160 - 210 | 170 - 220+ |
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