I've always been designing real different and unconventional board shapes, sketching things on paper. I have a technical drawing background. I feel windsurf boards haven't really progressed enough and taken the sport to another level.

A lot of people may disagree with me but you can find boards shaped in the 70s that dont look that different to modern boards; and sailing and kiteboarding are now faster record holders.

Does anyone know where I can go with my designs? I've emailed some of the big name companies but of course havent heard anything back from them.

Happy to work with local shapers or companies. All of my shapes are speed or slalom related.

I came across this photo somewhere recently and it reminded me that it is nice to reflect occasionally on the rich history of our sport.
Interest in speed sailing with windsurfers was very high in the '80's. It dropped off in the '90's except for a couple of moments when records were broken, but it gained a huge boost again after 2004 with the advent of consumer GPS speed logging and the advent of GPS-Speedsurfing.com

If you look carefully you can see our own Mal Wright at the center left, standing in the water with his 13" white board, yellow harness and the number 84 on his sail.

This is probably the board he used to win the inaugural 'Canal' event that year and it also happens to be the board I had only my second measured peak GPS speed of over 40 knots on at Sandy Point in 2004/5!




Lets post of gallery of historical photos we have or find here.