In the early days of the sport, windsurfers had overdeveloped senses of humor (perhaps to compensate for unstable rigs?) What is it possible to sail as a windsurfing board? Or use as a rig? Expand your mind (or recoil in horror) and witness the envelope being pushed in earlier days.
These people are having fun, and there are some stone crazy ideas here to boot!
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It's no wonder I waited 20 years to take up the sport.
That "Thing/flying wedge" inventor should be credited for designing the first formula board.
Posted by: Chris | May 12, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Hey, thanks for the laughs. Remember the footage of a bunch of guys in Hawaii sailing doors? Wish I could find that somewhere to show to the next person I hear bitching about how their stuff is just not quite right...
Those early days were awesome, among other things because nobody back then knew that what they were doing was impossible.
Posted by: g-42 | May 13, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Great stuff! Reminds me of the 'good ol days' when we were experimenting with all sorts of stuff. Also with sails....some ridiculous, others had some basic ideas which are kind of being put to use now. As for the 'door' - I remember seeing videos and pics of them trying to sail a door - infact I have it on a video we have somewhere. I call my sons Formula board ''the door'' cos its exactly what it looks like! But its alot faster than the original Hawaiin door! Lets see more of the stuff - brilliant.
Posted by: Bunty | May 13, 2007 at 05:09 AM
Great stuff. Despite the sour comments from people who weren't there, those were great days. We didn't worry so much about the gear, just concentrated on loving the sport. And when you DID get into gear, you could build your own stuff and be right at the leading (bleeding???) edge.
G42, the footage of Mike Waltze sailing a door was on "Tradewinds", an Australian movie.
Posted by: Chris 249 | May 13, 2007 at 05:35 AM
That was great!
Posted by: Joe Rouse | May 14, 2007 at 12:11 AM