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pirrad > 9 months ago, 5 Jul 2016

pirrad

850 posts

5 Jul 2016 7:53am

Rate your thoughts out of 10
clamp on boom 10/10
monocoque boom 10/10

curac

1160 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:29am

Universal 20/10

Waterloo

QLD

1497 posts

5 Jul 2016 9:28am

At the time

chest harness 7/10

Windsurfer semi-retractable centreboard 8/10

Tardy

5292 posts

5 Jul 2016 7:33am

2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

djl070

290 posts

5 Jul 2016 7:54am

Carbon fibre 10/10

ka43

NSW

3097 posts

5 Jul 2016 10:14am

Footstrap 10/10

Da Claw ~ 0 out of 10
Just changing it up a bit, the worst things.
Da Claw was a Velcro wrist strap that held a plastic 'U' shaped thing that was held in your palm to elevate wrist/arm strain while windsurfing, it led to some great over the handle bars slam dunks. It didn't last too long on the market.

Stuthepirate

3591 posts

5 Jul 2016 11:37am

Reduced Board Length 8/10
New style learner boards 9/10
RDM Masts 9/10
X-Ply sails 10/10
Robby Naish 9/10
Jenna de Rosnay 10/10

da vecta

QLD

2515 posts

5 Jul 2016 12:14pm

Z-Booms: Bring them back! 1/10

russh

3027 posts

5 Jul 2016 12:00pm

Windy days with waves

John340

QLD

3373 posts

5 Jul 2016 1:04pm

Windsurfer One Design - without it, there would be nothing

sausage

QLD

4873 posts

5 Jul 2016 1:12pm

Harness lines 10/10

Carantoc

7194 posts

5 Jul 2016 11:12am

Seabreeze.com.au

N1GEL

NSW

861 posts

5 Jul 2016 1:53pm

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Tardy said..
2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

the alu masts were even more shocking. Sketching sailing in a lightening storm

sboardcrazy

NSW

8292 posts

5 Jul 2016 3:15pm

Delta weedfins to allow shallow flatwater speed sailing

7/10 ( only cause I hate the b things but they do open up some great places!)

kato

VIC

3513 posts

5 Jul 2016 4:19pm

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N1GEL said..

Tardy said..
2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

the alu masts were even more shocking. Sketching sailing in a lightening storm

Worse when they broke, 4 stiches in the arm

Tardy

5292 posts

5 Jul 2016 2:21pm

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N1GEL said..

Tardy said..
2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

the alu masts were even more shocking. Sketching sailing in a lightening storm

Yeah never thought of that ....to early for me I caught the last of the glass mast ..but heard horror stories.

Short board revolution 10/10

sails that you can down haul ,and that exhaust out the top ....10/10

just reminds me of the catapult s ,that we all use to have in a gust .

seanhogan

QLD

3424 posts

5 Jul 2016 5:23pm

Jenna 20/10

MikeyS

VIC

1509 posts

5 Jul 2016 5:55pm

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kato said..

N1GEL said..

Tardy said..
2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

the alu masts were even more shocking. Sketching sailing in a lightening storm

Worse when they broke, 4 stiches in the arm

Yup, I believe broken Al masts were recycled into surgical scalpels.

By the way, I'll be betting the difference in conductivity between carbon fibre and aluminium is not significant. Especially in a thunderstorm, Mr Franklin.

Downhauls that use pulleys, instead of a combined downhaul/rope uni with a special knot you could never remember (ah the old Bombora) : 8/10

AusMoz

QLD

1510 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:35pm

+ 1 clamp on boom - 10/10

Sail repair tape - 8/10

shorter/wider boards 20/10

Mark _australia

23526 posts

5 Jul 2016 4:59pm

RAF and battens.
Hmm, combined with seam shaping
If we stuck with floppy it would have been going nowhere.
8/10

TASSIEROCKS

TAS

1652 posts

5 Jul 2016 7:04pm

Windy Days

20/10
Mates having a blast

20/10
Beer when you finish

100/10

Cheers Russ

John340

QLD

3373 posts

5 Jul 2016 8:00pm

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N1GEL said..

Tardy said..
2 piece Carbon mast

the 1 piece fibreglass ones where shocking 9/10

the alu masts were even more shocking. Sketching sailing in a lightening storm

Carbon is as good a conductor as aluminium

gavnwend

1373 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:13pm

Gopros lol

westhammer

506 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:18pm

Peter Chilvers

Jimmy Drake

and Hoyle Schweitzer

waveslave

4263 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:23pm

When poleys invented kitesurfing.

stroppo

747 posts

5 Jul 2016 6:32pm

10/10 when Jenna De Rosnay took up windsurfing!

pirrad

850 posts

5 Jul 2016 8:09pm

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waveslave said..
When poleys invented kitesurfing.

10/10 Sorted the boys from the men.

jn1

2683 posts

5 Jul 2016 8:28pm

The floppy leach and twist off to account for wind gradient. I thought that idea was pretty clever. 10/10

shoodbegood

VIC

873 posts

5 Jul 2016 9:18pm

Spreader bars
Mmmm, comfy harness

barn

2960 posts

5 Jul 2016 7:47pm

Robby Naish Polevault forwards 10/10

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