[Closed] Windsurfers ... Any interest in Retro ?

Only if its an original Mistral Equipe in mint condition or a Fanatic Ultra Cat in mint condition

Tips countrywide are full of old windsurf boards!

Some chat here about similar the other year

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/any-old-skool-windsurfers-out-there/#post-9277507

Hmmmm. 15 years old you say. I guess that makes all my kit well and truly retro. Mistral Vision, Bic er yellow something or other. It hasn't left the shed in a few years but I live in hope.

15 years is new compared to my kit. Some nearly 30 years old and only now getting tired.

Think I'm going to pare it down to a foil windsup and an inflatable longboard and have 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5 sails only....

My dad sold my Klepper when I was away in Australia in '89. Probably just as well, water got into the core where the two halves mated.

I’ve still got a Techno 283, it’s a bit battered no because the kids at the club have been using it for training. Surprised it still floats, but had a blast on it in Feb and it’s a really comfortable race board.. not particularly quick by modern day standards, but if you keep it powered up it will shift along on its fin nicely...

I help run our Round Hayling Island Windsurf race from the club, plenty of folks bring retro gear out to race around the island on. You see all sorts, technos, equipes, vintas, some stonking railed raceboards.. we have a retro “fleet” prize too..

There is lots of nostalgia about old sailing and windsurfing kit, most of it is green mould covered but occasionally you’ll see a clean garaged example turn up at the club and give someone a hoot of an afternoon blasting fun.

The only real issues we’ve seen are the moulded decks splitting, mast tracks that disintegrate or jammed and fin boxes loose or ripped out.. all perfectly serviceable for cheap money and a few hours ..

I worked in Windsurfing for about 25 years. I rode the latest kit and would every now and then try older gear at hire centres overseas. Even 5 years older could feel a bit clunky, but as long as the rig and the board were of a similar period it felt balanced. I had a great afternoon a couple of years back on a 80s board pulled from under a caravan and playing silly buggers longboard freestyle.

Horses for courses. New gear is epic.

I considered myself massively lucky to have found someone willing to take an old Dufour board and its gear away on Freecycle a few months back.

Would've been a complete pain to get it to the tip otherwise.