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BSN101
BSN101
WA
2390 posts
WA, 2390 posts
21 Jul 2018 11:49pm
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.
olskool
olskool
QLD
2462 posts
QLD, 2462 posts
22 Jul 2018 4:13am
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.
Mastbender
Mastbender
1972 posts
1972 posts
22 Jul 2018 3:25am
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".
boardsurfr
boardsurfr
WA
2463 posts
WA, 2463 posts
22 Jul 2018 6:21am
There's a German forum at surf-forum.com/forum/ .. Google translate may be needed
mark62
mark62
511 posts
511 posts
22 Jul 2018 7:16am
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.
forceten
forceten
1312 posts
1312 posts
22 Jul 2018 8:53am
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 ?
forceten
forceten
1312 posts
1312 posts
22 Jul 2018 8:53am
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 ?
choco
choco
SA
4181 posts
SA, 4181 posts
22 Jul 2018 10:37am
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
joe windsurf
joe windsurf
1482 posts
1482 posts
23 Jul 2018 1:14am
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
forceten
forceten
1312 posts
1312 posts
23 Jul 2018 7:19am
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.
Basher
Basher
590 posts
590 posts
23 Jul 2018 8:53am
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.
Wollemi
Wollemi
NSW
350 posts
NSW, 350 posts
23 Jul 2018 10:44pm
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.
joe windsurf
joe windsurf
1482 posts
1482 posts
24 Jul 2018 4:06am
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 :-)
NelsonFoils
NelsonFoils
190 posts
190 posts
24 Jul 2018 4:46am
Feel free
olskool
olskool
QLD
2462 posts
QLD, 2462 posts
24 Jul 2018 7:57am
NelsonFoils said..
Feel free


To do what?
sailquik
sailquik
VIC
6171 posts
VIC, 6171 posts
24 Jul 2018 8:03am
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.




sailquik
sailquik
VIC
6171 posts
VIC, 6171 posts
24 Jul 2018 8:33am
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?
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
15100 posts
WA, 15100 posts
24 Jul 2018 6:52am
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.
sailquik
sailquik
VIC
6171 posts
VIC, 6171 posts
24 Jul 2018 8:54am
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.
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
15100 posts
WA, 15100 posts
24 Jul 2018 1:50pm
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.
laurie
laurie
SA
3887 posts
SA, 3887 posts
26 Jul 2018 10:08am
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
sboardcrazy
sboardcrazy
NSW
8333 posts
NSW, 8333 posts
26 Jul 2018 11:57am
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..
airsail
airsail
QLD
1598 posts
QLD, 1598 posts
26 Jul 2018 2:00pm
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.
forceten
forceten
1312 posts
1312 posts
28 Jul 2018 9:31am
Sailquik

thanks for the translate info. I will get my 13YO neighbor to help me.
Greenroom
Greenroom
WA
7608 posts
WA, 7608 posts
28 Jul 2018 10:03am
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!
forceten
forceten
1312 posts
1312 posts
28 Jul 2018 10:15pm
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
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