SeaBreeze is a great location for forums on water sports, windsurfing of course, but where or what are the other world wide forums that we can look at for a different perspective? Expand our view & knowledge.

Windsurf forums? Ive read all kinds of forums 4x4 , wooden boat building,fishing etc. Nothing even comes close to SEABREEZE. Plenty of honest appraisals, tech tips, buy n sell, weather reports n good ol Aussie banter.

If you want to see what us 'mericans have to say, you can go here www.iwindsurf.com/forums/index.php
But watch out for the political thread, it's no different than "Heavy Weather".

There's a German forum at surf-forum.com/forum/ .. Google translate may be needed

I've got it down to just three forums I use. Seabreeze.com, France's www.windsurfing33.com and the Dutchies www.windsurfing.nl. Plenty of slalom and speed related stuff on these three sites.

sadly over here in the UK we have no proper forums left, boards.co.uk recently shut down, but to be honest, most of the chat on it was wave kit or non windsurf related stuff, very little speed or slalom talk.

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mark62 said..
I've got it down to just three forums I use. Seabreeze.com, France's www.windsurfing33.com and the Dutchies www.windsurfing.nl. Plenty of slalom and speed related stuff on these three sites.

sadly over here in the UK we have no proper forums left, boards.co.uk recently shut down, but to be honest, most of the chat on it was wave kit or non windsurf related stuff, very little speed or slalom talk.

Do either of those have a English translation BUTTON ?

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mark62 said..
I've got it down to just three forums I use. Seabreeze.com, France's www.windsurfing33.com and the Dutchies www.windsurfing.nl. Plenty of slalom and speed related stuff on these three sites.

sadly over here in the UK we have no proper forums left, boards.co.uk recently shut down, but to be honest, most of the chat on it was wave kit or non windsurf related stuff, very little speed or slalom talk.

Do either of those have a English translation BUTTON ?

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forceten said..

mark62 said..
I've got it down to just three forums I use. Seabreeze.com, France's www.windsurfing33.com and the Dutchies www.windsurfing.nl. Plenty of slalom and speed related stuff on these three sites.

sadly over here in the UK we have no proper forums left, boards.co.uk recently shut down, but to be honest, most of the chat on it was wave kit or non windsurf related stuff, very little speed or slalom talk.

Do either of those have a English translation BUTTON ?

Chrome auto translates

http://forums.quebecwind.com/index/ has another force10
vous parlez francais n'est-ce pas ??
Es gibt auch gute deutsche Forums ..
no hablo espaniole
google translate seems to have become another verb in the English language

To clarify my question , Do either forum have a English version , and a button to produce English instead of ?

From memory a Dutch forum did . But its been a long time. I probably need to ask a good source in the Netherlands.

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Stuthepirate said..
Boards in the uK is pretty good for a different perspective
http://forums.boards.co.uk/

boards.co.uk/

Boards forum in the UK has folded. First the magazine changed hands. Then the accountants shifted it elsewhere. Then the magazine went online ('online only'). The forum was the only part of the title getting traffic - and was still the busiest windsurfing forum in the world.
But then someone decided they should sell the forum as a going concern. Unfortunately, there were no buyers, at the price asked - and possibly due to earlier mismanagement over troll behaviour and multiple log-ins. Then the new data-sharing laws came in and it was too much trouble for the owners to update the Forum site as it was , so it was shut down, losing all the online archive of threads and questions answered. These business people are not windsurfers. They are ****s. Complete sell-out ****s.
This seabreeze forum space is well run - but you need to treasure it. There are no guarantees we will always be here.

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Basher said..
This seabreeze forum space is well run - but you need to treasure it. There are no guarantees we will always be here.

Threads disappear after 3 months of no additional chat. Much invaluable advice with learning has been lost from Seabreeze.

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forceten said..
To clarify my question , Do either forum have a English version , and a button to produce English instead of ?

From memory a Dutch forum did . But its been a long time. I probably need to ask a good source in the Netherlands.

google translate often appears - as if on its own :-)

Feel free

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NelsonFoils said..
Feel free

To do what?

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forceten said..
To clarify my question , Do either forum have a English version , and a button to produce English instead of ?

From memory a Dutch forum did . But its been a long time. I probably need to ask a good source in the Netherlands.

To claify the answer above:

Nope. but a 'Google Translate' BUTTON can be added to any browser for the same effect. Here it is in Safari (the two arrow button above the T in Translate.



And Chrome has a translate function as standard equipment. I think the older versions need a button to be pressed but now it seems to translate all on it's own.

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Wollemi said..

Basher said..
This seabreeze forum space is well run - but you need to treasure it. There are no guarantees we will always be here.

Threads disappear after 3 months of no additional chat. Much invaluable advice with learning has been lost from Seabreeze.

That does not appear to be the case. I was able to go back 75 pages in this sub-forum to April 2007.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps?page=75

Was that the date the windsurfing - general forum started?

Lots of familiar names posting there.

It's like going down the Alice in Wonderland Rabbit Hole. I wasn't sure i would be able to make it back out?

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Wollemi said..

Basher said..
This seabreeze forum space is well run - but you need to treasure it. There are no guarantees we will always be here.

Threads disappear after 3 months of no additional chat. Much invaluable advice with learning has been lost from Seabreeze.

You probably don't realise it, but most of the forum is available through Google's search engine. The forum's search engine only goes back so far, but as far as I can tell, the data goes back to the beginning.

Try searching the following in google:

Windy season in WA? site:seabreeze.com.au

Luckily, for our own benefit, heavy weather is not cached. I would hate to be able to re-read my opinions on those topics a few years later.

The Windsurfing - GPS & Speed forum also goes back 75 pages to April 2007.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps?page=75

Perhaps 75 pages is the limit? Or was this when the subforums were started?

Seabreeze forum was running before that.

Here's a few earlier posts:

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/2003-Starboard-Start-Small-Stolen?page=0

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/General/using-shorter-lines-smaller-kite?page=1

So, 2004? Or earlier? If it was 1997, there wouldn't have been too many of us that were on the internet though and it certainly wouldn't have been that fast.

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sailquik said..
The Windsurfing - GPS & Speed forum also goes back 75 pages to April 2007.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps?page=75

Perhaps 75 pages is the limit? Or was this when the subforums were started?

Seabreeze forum was running before that.

The main forum started ~ 2003, the GPS forum wasn't started till later.

First windsurfing post:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General?page=336

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laurie said..

sailquik said..
The Windsurfing - GPS & Speed forum also goes back 75 pages to April 2007.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps?page=75

Perhaps 75 pages is the limit? Or was this when the subforums were started?

Seabreeze forum was running before that.

The main forum started ~ 2003, the GPS forum wasn't started till later.

First windsurfing post:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General?page=336

Thanks Laurie.. This gives me some more posts to read when I'm bored..

I follow these forums by the recent topic search. Being a Sailboarder and Kiter I read both sections. Sailboard related posts double or treble those from the kite section. Wasn't that way a year ago, just an observation.

Sailquik

thanks for the translate info. I will get my 13YO neighbor to help me.

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laurie said..

sailquik said..
The Windsurfing - GPS & Speed forum also goes back 75 pages to April 2007.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps?page=75

Perhaps 75 pages is the limit? Or was this when the subforums were started?

Seabreeze forum was running before that.

The main forum started ~ 2003, the GPS forum wasn't started till later.

First windsurfing post:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General?page=336

Yew!

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forceten said..
Sailquik

thanks for the translate info. I will get my 13YO neighbor to help me.

This worked a treat, the chrome version. Very much appreciated