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Finian Maynard (KV-11) was probably pissed off since he pulled a fellow windsurfer from his board, as shown in the video below. I’m wondering what they are talking about and it’s not clear why Finian acted like that. Phil Horrocks reports about the Gran Canaria PWA World Tour for Boardseeker magazine. Check out the video below.
Finian pissed off at the PWA World Tour Gran Canaria
Here is also a short interview with Finian Maynard:
The world cup on the Costa Teguise has ended. Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic/North Sails) and Sarah Quita Offringa (Starboard/NeilPryde) had both really dominant performances and managed to win the pwa event.
Marcilio Browne in action. (photo by PWA / John Carter)
Special props to Steven van Broeckhoven because he is really kicking ass this season. After four consecutive wins in the European Freestyle Pro Tour he secured a 6th position in Lanzarote. A full event summary can be found over here.
Steven van Broeckhoven in action (photo by PWA / John Carter)
The weather forecast is fantastic for this weekend, lots of sun but probably no wind. But who says that you need a lot of fun to rip hard? There are plenty ways to have fun on low wind days.
Read more about low wind weekends
Last week on Wednesday was a great evening to go out on the water after a day working. The wind strength and direction was good. At the beach I rigged my 7.8 RS Slalom sail since I thought it was around 15-20 knots. Unfortunately I was wrong…
Luckily I was able to windsurf again! This was the second time this year… That really has to change in the upcoming months. There was not much wind, a small 4 Beaufort. I didn’t care to much since I was happy to be on the water again. Here the results of my day.
A lot of people are always wondering how to rig and tune their windsurfing sail. With a wave sail it’s a bit easier than with a high tech racing sail. Still are there a lot of people not setting up their gear correctly. Alex Mussolini is giving you some handy (but basic) advice. You can also applies these tips to your freestyle sail.
Do you know more rigging tips? Please leave them in the comments.
Mistral told in an press release that they and Anders Bringdal have reach an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement for windsurf boards. As result a new generation of Mistral boards will be produced. Anders Bringdal is a four times world champion windsurfer and he doesn’t look bad on the speed tracks as well 
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Mistral is hoping that the can bring new life to the Mistal brand as they did with the sponsoring of Robby Naish 33 years ago. Boards & More will lose their license since this deal is an exclusive one with bringdal.
The new of Mistral boards can be expected at the end of November. A series of slalom boards will be made and also a board purely focused on longdistance GPS Speedsurfing and a pure GPS Speedboard. In total we can expect about 14 different boards. His own board line, AB Boards, will probably ceace to exits. Let’s see what Anders will bring us!
The french Windsurf Magazine had a great inside look in the headquarters of Starboard. Windsurfer Cyril Moussilmani showed them around. A while back I posted a video from Kevin Pritchard who was also talking about Starboard and testing the iSonic windsurf boards. He showed a lot in his video, at least that was what Starboard thought. So eventually he had to take the video offline. Anyway, here are the pictures of the fotoshoot at Starboard HQ.
Startboard Headquarters - working on an iSonic windsurf board
Windsurfer Anders Bringdal
Did you ever wonder what Anders Bringdal is doing besides developing AB Boards? The Daily Dose had a chat with him and talked about speedsailing on the Hydroptere. Check out the video at the Daily Dose
Rider Davy Scheffers (H311), part of the international Gaastra/Tabou team, has posted a new video “After Bonaire” on his blog. Cool to see how the Dutch talents are making it to the international windsurfing scene. Watch his freestyle action.