First of all, thanks for letting me join.
Originally from Holland where I started windsurfing in the late seventies and progressed to wave jumping.
Holland was great because of the abundance of water and windy conditions.
I moved to Australia in 1985 and sailed for a few more years although to a lesser extent due to more infrequent windy conditions before family life got in the way and I stopped altogether.
Just recently joined an Old School Windsurfing group on FB and seeing a lot of old farts my age taking the hobby back up again.
So much great footage nowadays with the GoPro's has really got the itch going again for a resurgence.
Currently own an F2 Lightning, F2 Sunset, Bic Veloce (130 liter), Bic Tempo and just this weekend bought a secondhand 280 Wind Action board shaped by Peter Cochran. freeimage.host/i/dipGQR Does anyone know how many liters this board would be?
It looks like a bit of a speed demon and I doubt I would be able to uphaul on this board with my current weight of 90 kgs.
Hoping to be back on the water soon.

Back then no one cared about volume or liters.. It was just a length and width thing.. and at 90 kgs I'm thinking uphauling will be do'able as long as you don't mind the board being totally under water..

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DavidJohn said..
Back then no one cared about volume or liters.. It was just a length and width thing.. and at 90 kgs I'm thinking uphauling will be do'able as long as you don't mind the board being totally under water..

yeah, I guess you're right. Even I didn't care as waterstarting was easy then. Might be a bit different now though as I'm not as light and fit. Just wanted to know as a safety thing so I would know if I could fall back on uphauling in case the wind died (or my arms and legs )