For anyone who's been into windsurfing since the eighties (like me), this may bring back some good (or terrible!) memories:
hitthewave.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/windsurfing-brochures-ads-80s-90s/

I liked it Gaz, thanks for putting it up.

Had a Dufour & Mistral Maui 1st 2 boards I ever had..

Hey Sue, me and my brother did a paper round and bought a second hand Dufour Wing, man, that was a tough summer! Traded up to a brand new Windsurfer the folllowing year, that made all the difference. I reckon later that year i had a go on a mates Bomby Tri Fin, that was it, no turning back! Great memories.

Great memories i remember working in a windsurf shop in the eighty's sailing tyroncea , kleppers, windrush and many more brands it was a great time as a teenager and landsailers in the carpark sh#t i had it good now 28 years later i still love it so much and the gear is so much better no more 10ft booms and sails with no battens and centre boards hanging of your arm when going down wind with water shooting up out of the caseing and plastic fins that would snap of at randem and if you had a dog that rode on the front of the board it was cool and crapie up haul ropes and loose booms those were the days thanks 4 reminding me how much fun we had

damn it, i am still sailing one of those boards today.

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GazMan said...

For anyone who's been into windsurfing since the eighties (like me), this may bring back some good (or terrible!) memories:
hitthewave.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/windsurfing-brochures-ads-80s-90s/

If u got a strange feeling of deja vu reading the above topic then you're not going crazy:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/A-trip-down-memory-lane/

(posted 15/8/12, I must have been asleep when that went up!)

Started on a Windrush Clubman, then brought a horrible Crit 355 from Rose Bay Sailboards (I remember a French lady ran the business). Ditched that quickly and got a Bombora Big Toy, then drooled over the F2 boards of the time and ended up getting a Lightning (87 model I think). Then got bitten by the 'short board' bug (nothing over 3 metres long).

I can clearly remember some of the boards my friends were sailing at the time, one a Windspeed board that most labelled the 'aircraft carrier' (we always joked that you could land a small plane on it!). It was so big and heavy, took a bloody lot of effort just to get it off the roof!

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shoodbegood said...
Hey Sue, me and my brother did a paper round and bought a second hand Dufour Wing, man, that was a tough summer! Traded up to a brand new Windsurfer the folllowing year, that made all the difference. I reckon later that year i had a go on a mates Bomby Tri Fin, that was it, no turning back! Great memories.

OK, it's on! No waaaay man, the Wing was *heaps* better than the Wally! Unless you're talking about the fancy-schmancy new Wally with the Gladwrap sail and pivoting centreboard, but that's not a *real* windsurfer.

@Gazman: Madeline Petit was the Crit lady. Cluey customer (even though I couldn't convince her to let me on the D2 team - no idea what the problem was ;) ).

BTW - notice the bowling ball, pen and gun manufacturers among the brands? Kids these days( *hawk* *spit* ) just wouldn't believe how massive windsurfing was.