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Title: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: Admin on April 17, 2015, 08:23:49 AM: WindSUP. Sometimes it is perfect match for the conditions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY0CVCSmKYY
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: surfcowboy on April 17, 2015, 09:08:50 AM: I need somewhere to get a lesson. I'd love to add a mast mount to my Coreban and have something to do when it's blown out.
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: PonoBill on April 17, 2015, 02:58:21 PM: That got me Stoked. I'm going to stick some superfreaks in my board bag for padding. I've got a couple in HR, but more here. Perfect sail for that kind of thing, no bang, just pull.
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: jdmotes on April 18, 2015, 02:26:03 PM: You Dog, you! Nice video... I've been doing a little WindSUP on the Kona Molokai 10'6 with a 5.8 Aerotech WINDSUP rig. Lotta FUN!
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: laszlo on April 18, 2015, 05:08:17 PM: The first two pictures are from back in 2009, south swell at Secos. my Starboard Extremist 9.8. The last pic is more current, also Secos, on my custom 8.10 North Pacific,
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: Philn on April 19, 2015, 02:24:39 PM: Looks so relaxing and so much fun at the same time. Love it! Superfreak looks like the perfect sail for that type of windsurfing.
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: JimK on April 20, 2015, 06:23:52 AM: Any ZONER wanting SUP sailing Lessons
I offer my staff and equipment at your disposal FOR FREE!
Just call, email me to arrange (let me know you're a ZONER)

SUP surf sailing adds a TON of fun T.O.W

JimK
www.extremewindsurfing.com
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: SUP Sports ® on April 21, 2015, 05:47:21 PM: Thanks Randy and JD...
It does seem like this could be the Summer of WindSUP love, 10 years after we started putting mast tracks in SUP's...
We're getting lots of inquiries...in fact, just started building a full carbon 8'11" Hammer WindSUP for Andy out in North Carolina...

Here's another three POV vid clip that I put together with some different footage than the one above...

https://youtu.be/ApuSJP18BJ0

I'm still using the same 5.8m2 Hot SuperFreak from back in the SOS "Big Red" 11'11" days...the first production WindSUP...

That was big time fun at the time...but, my Hammer is 3' shorter and much faster...and, lighter...with less swing weight...WindSUP progression...
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: laszlo on April 22, 2015, 11:47:56 AM: I still have my Big Red! Warren, do you remember when I got the Extremist in the pictures above? Starboard had just come out with the Extremist line, the shortest production boards available at that time, they made a 9'0 x 30 and a 9'8 x 30. You recommended the 9'8; I remember you saying about the 9'0 "Might as well just go surfin if you go that short". My, how times have changed.
Title: Re: Is this your summer to Wind SUP?
Post by: SUP Sports ® on April 22, 2015, 12:43:53 PM: Quote from: laszlo on April 22, 2015, 11:47:56 AM
I still have my Big Red! Warren, do you remember when I got the Extremist in the pictures above? Starboard had just come out with the Extremist line, the shortest production boards available at that time, they made a 9'0 x 30 and a 9'8 x 30. You recommended the 9'8; I remember you saying about the 9'0 "Might as well just go surfin if you go that short". My, how times have changed.

Aloha Laszlo,
ahhhh...the early days of standup/windSUP...

I do remember that 9' & 9'8" Fish...it sailed like a POS!...;-)
In addition to the rocker being too flat and the big wide nose, soft 50/50 rails...very little Vee...the mast foot placement was in the wrong place...and, don't even think about using the footstrap inserts...totally whacked...yes, my how times have changed!...for the better!!!;-)

I still have the original "Big Red" prototype...we installed a G-10 plate with screw inserts for the mast foot...and, we still have our first production "Big Red"...and, a bunch of other protos in our SUP museum...

Our WindSUP prototypes before that were 27" wide Clark Foam tandem blanks...after we were done with them, one of them ended up in Hood River...the other went to the East Coast...
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Post by: Paddleboardshop on July 15, 2015, 06:29:24 PM: Fantastic pictures