I will visit for the first time next week (my daughter there for work, I will tag along). I am an old long boarder, very experienced, will be in Sydney. I welcome and appreciate any recommendations for where to rent and sail, where to stay, etc.. Thank you. Note, I also wing (and kite, witefoil, etc.), so if there are better bets in Sydney, would love to know.

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jswinnyc said..
I will visit for the first time next week (my daughter there for work, I will tag along). I am an old long boarder, very experienced, will be in Sydney. I welcome and appreciate any recommendations for where to rent and sail, where to stay, etc.. Thank you. Note, I also wing (and kite, witefoil, etc.), so if there are better bets in Sydney, would love to know.

The longboarding centre in Sydney is Dobroyd Aquatic Club, which has twilight and weekend racing. It's located on a skinny arm of upper Sydney Harbour, a few milestones west of the CBD. If you contact them through the website they may be able to get you on one of the training boards and you can get out for a social race and pizza afterwards.

Balmoral Sailing Club apparently has a club Windsurfer LT for new sailors that you could possible get. Balmoral is much closer to Sydney Heads and can offer better sailing on a good day than Dobroyd, but there's lots of boat traffic on the weekends.

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jswinnyc said..
I will visit for the first time next week (my daughter there for work, I will tag along). I am an old long boarder, very experienced, will be in Sydney. I welcome and appreciate any recommendations for where to rent and sail, where to stay, etc.. Thank you. Note, I also wing (and kite, witefoil, etc.), so if there are better bets in Sydney, would love to know.

The longboarding centre in Sydney is Dobroyd Aquatic Club, which has twilight and weekend racing. It's located on a skinny arm of upper Sydney Harbour, a few milestones west of the CBD. If you contact them through the website they may be able to get you on one of the training boards and you can get out for a social race and pizza afterwards.

Balmoral Sailing Club apparently has a club Windsurfer LT for new sailors that you could possible get. Balmoral is much closer to Sydney Heads and can offer better sailing on a good day than Dobroyd, but there's lots of boat traffic on the weekends.

Dobroyd seems to require membership to rent equipment, hmmm, will try email to them. It does seem like a fairly constrained area, but a twilight race would be lovely. Will check with Balmoral about their LT - traffic or no that seems a body of water where one could go places.

It's curious that there are board shops, but none of them seem to rent. Windsurfing Religion seems to have had an Exocet 380 for sale used, but missed that (sold), would have bought it and sold it back to them gladly - what a board. WSS also shows nothing. Oh well - will reach out to them all!

Thanks Chris.

The sad reality of windsurfing in Australia. There isn't many left unfortunately and rental centres like you find in other popular spots in Europe or Maui don't exist.

It's happy days for windsurfing on the one hand, as there's heaps of space on the water but it would be good to see more people participating.

Over here it's pretty cool.

Just go to Balmoral, introduce yourself (a 6-pack works wonders), you should be offered a board and off you go.