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Mastbender > 9 months ago, 9 Jan 2018

Mastbender

1972 posts

9 Jan 2018 3:16am

Going thru some old windsurf mags, and I found this. I remember when they first came out, and I instantly thought that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I bring you "Da Claw", from 1985. Can we say launch in 3.....2.....1

HotBodMon

NSW

612 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:46am

This invention is guaranteed to collide with epic conditions

Mastbender

1972 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:28am

Back to fooling around with gullible windsurfers, only one problem, there aren't any, from '84.

Mark _australia

23526 posts

9 Jan 2018 8:16am

Cccccccccccccccccc'mon somebody has to say it....

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Site-is-up-on-Wingsails?page=1

jusavina

QLD

1494 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:17am

patents.google.com/patent/US4194458A/en?q=windsurfing

swoosh

QLD

1929 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:33am

north shox
north ifront with the adjustable wobbliness

AusMoz

QLD

1510 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:45am

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Looking like a knob with to go windsurfing - I don't ever want to find anyone wearing fluro Bolle sunnies windsurfing again!

Mastbender

1972 posts

9 Jan 2018 1:09pm

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Mark _australia said..
Cccccccccccccccccc'mon somebody has to say it....
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Site-is-up-on-Wingsails?page=1

Actually I found both a "high tension wing/flex sail" (almost a full wing) and a "solid wing sail", similar to what MW has, which Fred Haywood was working on, both came out in '83 and publicized in early '84, but both have since disappeared. Got the mag, Wind Surf June '84, I set it aside, but haven't taken any pic yet. Also another one in Wind Surf June '87 of a full double surface wing sail, similar to MW's again, no pic yet, it also had a similar future.

But in the mean time, check this out~

Imax1

QLD

4926 posts

9 Jan 2018 5:08pm

^^^^
That's an excellent idea .

ka43

NSW

3097 posts

9 Jan 2018 6:42pm

Just be careful of the bloke who wrote the article!!!

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

9 Jan 2018 6:36pm

www.google.com.au/search?q=jezqs+knob&client=tablet-android-google&prmd=simvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMq4HivMrYAhUMVLwKHZRjBPIQ_AUIEigC#imgdii=DUFhblxQWwdqeM:&imgrc=ErbmwmT42ABJjM:

Not sure if good or bad. Did they work?

eyeMhardcore

82 posts

9 Jan 2018 4:49pm

I like this one. I once jumped from hells gates to albrohlos islands

NotWal

QLD

7435 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:12pm

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Haircut said..
www.google.com.au/search?q=jezqs+knob&client=tablet-android-google&prmd=simvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMq4HivMrYAhUMVLwKHZRjBPIQ_AUIEigC#imgdii=DUFhblxQWwdqeM:&imgrc=ErbmwmT42ABJjM:

Not sure if good or bad. Did they work?

I've got one of those somewhere. It workd well enough at protecting the nose but it was a damn nusiance when water starting if the rig was in the wrong place.
I doubt that you could fit one into the typically short mast tracks we use today.
I remember it was possible to pull the mast track out of a Bic using those things. The leverage of the rig weight over a very short lever arm demanded more resistance than the extruded aluminium tracks could reliably provide.

grich62

QLD

676 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:40pm

the mast deviator gets my vote ,stops the mast hitting dead center and redirects it about 100 mm of center,cracks the board , then jams between your sail and mast so you can not water start,what a piece of crap.cracked my brand new jp ss because i believed the bull**** that this worked

AusMoz

QLD

1510 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:52pm

How awesome was this to rig up!!!!!!!

Imax1

QLD

4926 posts

9 Jan 2018 8:01pm

^^^
I remember this system , when u heard horrible cracking noises pulling the boom down it was still wobbly.

Carantoc

7194 posts

9 Jan 2018 6:06pm

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Mastbender said..
Worst inventions ever for windsurfing

Kitesurfing ?

Childsplay

NSW

74 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:03pm

Seabreeze.com.au

.......I used to drive an hour and half down the coast with great anticipation, loaf around the beach and fish and chip shop through middday all positive like......even hang in right through the afternoon in the vain hope that the wind would come up.

.......now i'm Disappointed the moment I get out of bed and check the 'net.......spend the whole day mopin' around, apparently??

Faff

VIC

1394 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:05pm

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swoosh said..
north shox
north ifront with the adjustable wobbliness

Carbon has low resistance to abrasion. All carbon boom heads end up wobbly. But North has the stupidest design - narrow plastic ridges which produce a massive amount of wear on the carbon.

Subsonic

3384 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:15pm

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Mastbender said..
Going thru some old windsurf mags, and I found this. I remember when they first came out, and I instantly thought that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I bring you "Da Claw", from 1985. Can we say launch in 3.....2.....1

That one looks like some fun.

Great entertainment for those on the beach watching the gybes.

be one with your rig, through every manoeuvre!

Simon100

QLD

490 posts

9 Jan 2018 9:27pm

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AusMoz said..

How awesome was this to rig up!!!!!!!

I cant belive you guys uses to have to sail them, The modern boom clamp must have been the best thing ever when it came out

Capie

45 posts

9 Jan 2018 7:37pm

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Faff said..

swoosh said..
north shox
north ifront with the adjustable wobbliness

Carbon has low resistance to abrasion. All carbon boom heads end up wobbly. But North has the stupidest design - narrow plastic ridges which produce a massive amount of wear on the carbon.

The Shox is phenomenally good in choppy conditions. For high wind freeriding, it makes a huge difference. I don't use it for slalom because it's another thing that can go wrong but it really does work. I do use mine in racing with the 5.4 Warp when control is important. Never had any issues with the adjustable iFront either. I've used that head (which is plastic not carbon) on a Silver boom with carbon masts for seven years and the masts are pristine.

jn1

2683 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:59pm

remery

3709 posts

9 Jan 2018 8:39pm

The Strata Skeg.

Haircut

QLD

6491 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:49pm

Footy fins?

remery

3709 posts

9 Jan 2018 9:06pm

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Haircut said..
Footy fins?

Ok, you win, they're worse.

Sparky

1122 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:40pm

Z booms?

Sparky

1122 posts

9 Jan 2018 10:40pm

Cut away leach sails?

Mastbender

1972 posts

10 Jan 2018 3:22am

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Sparky said..
Z booms?

Oh yeah! Actually I had a friend who bought one, I tried it a few times, kind of comfortable, but the biggest problem was with the pinch on front end, it had no boom clamp, it just pinched the mast, so it was always slipping. Ad from '88.

Ian K

4164 posts

10 Jan 2018 4:08am

Those loops they sew on sail bags. You know the ones, about half way along.

Chris 249

NSW

3531 posts

10 Jan 2018 8:11am

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AusMoz said..

How awesome was this to rig up!!!!!!!

A lot better than the early wooden booms, I can tell you.

Kids these days..... :-)

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