Just found this on the interwebs:
hitthewave.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/windsurfing-brochures-ads-80s-90s/
How many of those boards have you owned over the years?
Is that a thruster I see on that '94 AHD?
Never owned them, but do remember frothing over some of those F2 offerings in the very early days. Wave boards were so much more needle shaped in those days weren't they?
Wow, how things have changed. I just spotted an old F2 Bullet in the line-up. I've riden about 4 boards in my very short wind surfing life, and the Bullet was one of them. Was fun to ride, it planed super easy and quick, just slid up on the plan really. Oh and the deck grip- kinda like a cake of wet soap but more slippery...
Had a COBRA board in 1985 and before that around 1983 a MISTRAL Kaluai (first board I had with footstraps)
Rode all the Ultra's and Bee at some stage but never owned one
Likewise some of the BiC stuff but that's not there, BiC boards when they went composite about 1990 - 1992 was good
But geez there is stuff I have never heard of in there - Browning - WTF!??
And why can't we have ads with topless chicks anymore like that Marlin (never heard of them either though so maybe it didn't work lol)
Browning was a big brand around the Gorge and San Francisco if I remember rightly. They made really nice slalom boards for the time.
I've still got a COBRA kevlar 3300 from 1985. without the straps it still makes a pretty handy flat water SUP
Lots of swallow tail flyers in there. I wonder how long till that setup makes a return as a quad for waves.
Shame I didn't see my old Mistral Waitata there (for sale in B&S if anyone's keen
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No bomboras? (or did I miss it?)
Count me in:
First board was a Tencate. Piece of polyethylene rubbish! I traded that for a Fanatic viper ( pre-dating the one in the Add). It was 340cm long, 190 litres, Quad concave. It worked pretty well. I sailed to the Isle of Wight on it. Pretty dumb with hindsight as it was 4 miles across a busy waterway with no back up.
Sold that and bought a Hifly Race, that was quite good ( but not as good as the Mistral Equipe that came next).
Last from these ads I had the Screamer shown in the Mistral Ad. I bought it to try to get my carve gybes right. It did not work for me, 18 years later and now I can gybe!
f them all I wish I had the Equipe still. That was great fun on and off the plane
