I think we should call this part of our sport.
Stand UP Sailing
So it won't be confused with windsurfing .You know where they use footstraps and whine about wind
LOL, you're going to open up a can of worms! :) IMHO, if you put a sail on it, you are windsurfing (regardless if you have straps or not, check out the history of the sport). So if are attaching a sail, you are joining the windsurfer ranks.
Whine about wind, who would do that? :D Kitesurfers, windsurfers, SUPers? I think we all do, as it is either too much or too little depending on what you are doing at the time! So we are all whiners! ha ha ha For me it's all good. Not enough wind, I LOVE SUP, gets windy, just break out my sail and the board with straps!
Quote from: lee on October 03, 2009, 07:22:51 PM
I think we should call this part of our sport.
Stand UP Sailing
So it won't be confused with windsurfing .You know where they use footstraps and whine about wind
Quote from: CB1 on October 04, 2009, 05:32:44 AM
Not enough wind, I LOVE SUP, gets windy, just break out my sail and the board with straps!
Interesting comments, for sure !, This weekend two of us were sailing our SUP's at the local lake with gusty wind just about the planing threshold ... Ron , who is a better windsurfer then I and was coming back to windsurfing after taking a 5 year break was a bit frustrated with his inability to get his Sup to plane despite the wind gusting to speeds where it should get on a plane .. we both agreed that it had to do with the way the surf rocker on the tails of our SUPs really seem to inhibit the ability of the boards to jump on a plane compared to the flatter tails of dedicated windsurf boards .. Ron likes that feeling of being locked into the straps and rocketing along on a plane in high winds .. and I betcha he will be out on his slalom board the next high wind winter blow we get ...
For me , I actually like the way my Sup drags its tail a bit in high winds... sailing a surfboard even in higher planing winds .. is different than sailing a performance
windsurfer in the same winds... SUP's plane in higher winds , but the way our boards plane is different then a dedicated windsurf board. , they do not plane as fast and there is more drag to the tail and less lift . .. for me the joy is to be able to sail with one sail even overpowered without straps ( or one rear strap to prevent catapaults :)!) Ponobill has been a big advocate from the beginning of how fun it is to sail thse surfboards strapless in higher winds ... I agree.!..
It's still windsurfing,,,,,,, and for the first time in a long time, I'm actually thinking of adding a mast track to my JL 10-4, and going strapless. Up until recently, I've been a purest about this SUP/windsurfing thing, windsurf boards for windsurfing, and SUP boards for SUPing.
I never quit windsurfing, and never went over to kiting, no interest. But if I were to put a sail on my SUP board, I'd be dropping in on waves that only the kiters can take full advantage of, (the winds being too light for good windsurfing, and too strong with a kite infestation, for sweeping).
Would I be getting in anybody's way?
Naa, no more then when 'real' windsurfing, besides, I'd have no paddle, so I'm not a sweeper.......................... I like it. 8)