Raceboarding & light wind technique
windsu...@gmail.com
>While the Northern Hemisphere gears up for their racing season, winter is upon us down here in Australia. After a long season of racing, it’s a time to finally get those board and sail repairs done, and abit of fine tuning. The winter traditionally on the East Coast of Australia (NSW) is alot of the time blowing a 30 knot freezing southerly but mostly it puts on a sun filled, light 2-8 knots. So if you wish to brush up on your light wind technique & tactics it’s a good time. The photos of AUS 053, Russell Jones... go to http://www.lbwindsurfing.com/raceboard/light-wind-technique/ to check it out.
Is there any raceboarders out there? I think we are a dying breed.
ronald
even have a yahoo group
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Dan Weiss
> we have a very active fleet on san francisco witrh the calcup series they
>
> news:73e95942-a623-40ce...@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> Here is and interesting article for anyone who sails raceboards.
>
> >While the Northern Hemisphere gears up for their racing season, winter is
> >upon us down here in Australia. After a long season of racing, it’s a time
> >to finally get those board and sail repairs done, and abit of fine tuning.
> >The winter traditionally on the East Coast of Australia (NSW) is alot of
> >the time blowing a 30 knot freezing southerly but mostly it puts on a sun
> >filled, light 2-8 knots. So if you wish to brush up on your light wind
> >technique & tactics it’s a good time. The photos of AUS 053, Russell
> >to check it out.
>
> Is there any raceboarders out there? I think we are a dying breed.
Yes, there are quite a few in New England.
-Dan
James
Virginia area. Enough to hold 2-3 good regattas per year.
I think there's a lot of (re)growth potential in longboard
windsurfing, seeing as how it provides fun, cheap sailing competition
in all conditions. I reckon it just needs the right kind of promotion
and organizational structure.
LBWS
> Here is and interesting article for anyone who sails raceboards.
>
>
> Is there any raceboarders out there? I think we are a dying breed.
Thanks for the reference to LBWS - www.lbwindsurfing.com and the
interest windsurfer100, I noticed links coming from this page!
We in Australia have a reasonable fleet hanging on. I think there were
40 raceboards at out last nationals -
http://www.lbwindsurfing.com/raceboard/australian-raceboard-championships/
. We are all hoping that will double at the 2009 Nats in Jan. At our
local club through summer we get about 20 boards each week which we
are trying to grow through teaching the kids.
It is because we were a dying breed LBWS was created. You can read the
aims of LBWS in more detail on the website. However, to put it simply,
we just want to join the LB community in a show of support towards
it's 're-growth'. All the comments here in this thread are interesting
as we often wonder about the world LB population. We understand time
constraints but would appreciate if people could write articles
describing their longboard scene in their area. Articles can be as
long as you like, pref. at least 600 words with pics. Try to promote
the area and what’s going on, i.e. events, weblinks, etc.
If you have any questions please use our contact page on the LBWS
website or the email below. Thanks in advance for any support.
Regards Rob
Email: lbws @ lbwindsurfing.com
BABA News Editor
our club - Baltimore Area Boardsailing Assoc - www.windsurfbaba.org
First race of the season is Sunday, May 18 - Gerry Brown Memorial Race
for Cancer Research. See our website for NOR, directions, etc.
One other note - I'm a Mac user and the page you're linking to is
causing Safari and Firefox to crash.
Norbert Wolski
Thanks for the link to the light wind technique pages. A dying breed? I
don't think so. Some new boards coming up (Excocet, Kona, Starboard
Phantom Race 380).There is a Raceboard scene still in Germany. Take a
look to www.dwsv.net and click at the Union Jack. Not all of the pages
are handling with Raceboards, but some of them. See the link n"ew
raceboards". Hopefully you will enjoy it. Regards.
windsu...@gmail.com schrieb:
Amokaman
Windsurfing) are still kicking after two decades. About 181 people
competed in at least one of 12 MOWIND races scored in 2007, about 18
rode Formula, 14 on Hybrid and the rest mainly on aging longboards.
MOWIND started a new Web site http://www.mowind.org/ last winter to
help promote events in the region.
The consensus on longboards around here is that there are plenty of
racers and non-racers that would like boards like the Mistral Equipe
to return. I believe there is still a worldwide niche market for
longboard style raceboards. Unfortunately the reality might be that a
niche market isn't enough for companies to produce a new product
for. I hope I'm wrong as new generation longboard style raceboards
might be just the ticket for some to get in or back in the sport.
Though they don't have all the characteristics of a longboard the
Hybrid style boards I would argue are better overall for the industry
then the traditional 12'6" style longboards are. Myself I ride and
race a Mistral Prodigy and I'm very happy with it and of course very
biased in my opinions. The larger Hybrid boards like the Mistral
Prodigy, BIC Nova/OD and Exocet Pacer are wide and stable making them
a great choice for the first board for a beginner and the current
prices for them are the same as a racing longboard was way back in
1993. I'm hopefull more of the aging longboarder crowd will come
over to the Hybrid light in the near future.
Scott - #H
On May 15, 10:55 am, windsurfer...@gmail.com wrote:
> Here is and interesting article for anyone who sails raceboards.
>
> >While the Northern Hemisphere gears up for their racing season, winter is upon us down here in Australia. After a long season of racing, it’s a time to finally get those board and sail repairs done, and abit of fine tuning. The winter traditionally on the East Coast of Australia (NSW) is alot of the time blowing a 30 knot freezing southerly but mostly it puts on a sun filled, light 2-8 knots. So if you wish to brush up on your light wind technique & tactics it’s a good time. The photos of AUS 053, Russell Jones... go tohttp://www.lbwindsurfing.com/raceboard/light-wind-technique/to check it out.
windsu...@gmail.com
about the Prodigy. If the manufacturers had'nt stopped supporting
longboards you'd probable be on them. I personally dissagree that
hybrids are better, the only real use for them are for kids starting
out.
Anyway we all have opinions and glad to see racing at a club level is
still going.
Cheers from a 80's hangover.