"You know you're an Old Windsurfer when"

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hardie > 9 months ago, 27 Nov 2020

hardie

4129 posts

27 Nov 2020 1:21pm

When Kai Lenny starts looking middle aged

Yes I'm bored and laid up in bed with the Flu for 8 days in a row

hardie

4129 posts

27 Nov 2020 1:25pm

When every windsurfer around you is getting into Foiling, and you're longing to find a Longboard with a Daggerboard in the Buy and Sell pages

GasHazard

QLD

385 posts

27 Nov 2020 5:35pm

When an hour's enough, and an hour and a half is too much.

John340

QLD

3373 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:30pm

You forget how to jump on port tack

mikey100

QLD

1105 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:47pm

... when in the morning, your bowels open before your eyes.

musorianin

QLD

597 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:56pm

You take up an easier sport, like lawn bowls or kitesurfing

In the work place you're still on a high from the stoke of your weekend endeavours on Wednesday morning when all the dead beat ****ers half you age are still moaning about their dead boring ****ing weekend.

Tardy

5292 posts

27 Nov 2020 6:09pm

You blame your gear ...so you buy new sh1t

morts

189 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:16pm

When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer

Stretchy

1045 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:21pm

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morts said..
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer

When you prep for a big day by dosing up with Celebrex

decrepit

12802 posts

27 Nov 2020 7:37pm

when people are talking about making you an immortal.
And when there are only 9 of you in your GPSTC age bracket

remery

3709 posts

27 Nov 2020 9:10pm

When most of your fins are US box.

segler

1658 posts

28 Nov 2020 12:32am

When you can't take your cane with you on the water.

segler

1658 posts

28 Nov 2020 1:05am

When you constantly have one foot on the banana peel.

--RM, age 72

mark62

509 posts

28 Nov 2020 1:33am

When you start buying/choosing food based on fibre content, not flavours

LeeD

3939 posts

28 Nov 2020 3:19am

When all your sailing buds are 20-40 years younger than you and the good sailors are 40-50 years younger.

John340

QLD

3373 posts

28 Nov 2020 6:06am

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morts said..
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer

You take the Voltaren before you sail

Ben1973

1008 posts

28 Nov 2020 4:23am

Your only as old of the kit you ride, it is that women you hold, can't remember must be getting old

Gorgo

VIC

5108 posts

28 Nov 2020 7:42am

... after 30 years they take you out from the side of the house and put you on the hard rubbish collection.

LeeD

3939 posts

28 Nov 2020 5:34am

I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.

Brent in Qld

1410 posts

28 Nov 2020 7:51am

When you remember your first board having rope to connect the sail to the board.

WaynoB

NSW

393 posts

28 Nov 2020 11:06am

When all your sailing mates have grey hair or none.

Searoamer

NSW

301 posts

28 Nov 2020 11:43am

You think Zimmer is a new foil brand

Madge

NSW

471 posts

28 Nov 2020 11:56am

when up hauling a board you expect to get whacked between the legs by the mast foot releasing for no reason other than the fact that its just a wooden wedge.

BSN101

2378 posts

28 Nov 2020 11:47am

Sail number is the same as the yr that you started - AUS084

elmo

8879 posts

28 Nov 2020 12:37pm

When you think you're old

evlPanda

NSW

9207 posts

28 Nov 2020 3:44pm

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LeeD said..
I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.

And here's me, lucky if I can get season, wind, tide, weekend, and now even parking, to all line up.

When you start a Seabreeze thread titled "Getting back into it after 10 years off!", ask about what has changed, and everyone replies pretty much nothing, except the colours, which are retro colours from 30 years ago.

Tardy

5292 posts

28 Nov 2020 2:16pm

When magnesium and beer become your best friend after sailing ...and your language is not fit for young kids to hear when getting up to take a leak

Swindy

456 posts

28 Nov 2020 3:47pm

For us on the large side.
When you look down you haven't been able to see your harness hook for some years.

da vecta

QLD

2515 posts

28 Nov 2020 5:56pm

When you come in from a big session on the water, grab a beer and kick back and still believe the Wallabies can win back the Bledisloe Cup.

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