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Is the LT the best thing that ever happened to windsurfing? Or has it ruined it?

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Created by Ant-man > 9 months ago, 22 Nov 2019
albymongrel
NSW, 257 posts
2 Feb 2020 8:02AM
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Wtf? And I thought lot of wind was full of it! Thought this was a windsurfing forum









































We are Windsurfer! Awesome times at our National Championships Jan 2020

Ant-man
NSW, 177 posts
2 Feb 2020 9:04AM
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Chris 249 said..

lotofwind said..
Bugger, you caught me out, gezzzz your a smart one. If that is the first and only sailor back then in France, why does he need a sail number ??????

I heard someone down the beach yesterday say the LT is like an Elvis impersonator at the RSL. Young kiddies dance to it cause they don't know any better yet and the oldies dance to it cause they prefer life 50 years ago.
I don't get what they mean though as I have never heard of a Elvis before????






Funny, the other day someone said that kiters and windfoilers are like teenyboppers drooling over their Noah Centinio posters and looking up Seventeen for advice on how to wear the latest trend of knee-high boots and flannel. Because after all, nothing is important as fashion and keeping up with the cool kids. Or you could go with the Alpaca trend, because after all what really matters is being trendy.



Y'know, it's sort of funny that someone who has a pic from 1982 on his profile is so obsessed with slinging **** at other things for being old fashioned. The Young Ones are only a few years newer than the Windsurfer in Oz, so if Windsurfers look old then you must look pretty crusty yourself.


Hey Chris, I'm not slinging anything. While I appreciate comedy is very subjective, funny is funny, even if it has the potential to offend. I found (and find) some of Lotofwinds comments pretty funny. I don't necessarily
agree with what he writes. To suggest that laughing at something endorses it is being naive to human behaviour.

Like pretty much any recreation or past-time a "retro" market exists in Windsurfing and has very passionate enthusiasts. I came very late to windsurfing and really wish I had learnt it as a kid or younger adult. Perhaps I too would have the same passion for the the LT as many of the contributors to this thread do if I had the same sense of nostalgia they do. I can't change the past. I can relate to your passion and enthusiasm, just not for the same thing.

The only issue I have with some of the comments posted by some LT lovers is that they have the same undertones of religious zealots trying to convert non-believers. I love reading how much you guys love your sport but comparisons and general statements about other forms of the sport tend to divide rather than unite (just like different religions).

MatStirl
TAS, 136 posts
2 Feb 2020 9:34PM
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To 99.8% of the population windsurfing is a board pushed along by the wind - if they even know it's called windsurfing.
LT sailors perhaps do think others should take it up but if you don't share that view don't read the LT threads.

tbwonder
NSW, 639 posts
2 Feb 2020 9:58PM
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Who started this thread? Obviously someone who loves the LT!

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
3 Feb 2020 9:01AM
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tbwonder said..
Who started this thread? Obviously someone who loves the LT!


Surely he must be a religious zealot as well proselytising all and sundry to get on board. He clearly desires an LT as he is forever reading this thread too.

windsufering
VIC, 1124 posts
4 Feb 2020 7:56AM
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Well after the Nationals of all sailboard classes, the windsurfer lt had more entrants than formula , race board , foil and bic techno combined !

AUS 814
NSW, 452 posts
4 Feb 2020 8:21AM
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windsufering said..
Well after the Nationals of all sailboard classes, the windsurfer lt had more entrants than formula , race board , foil and bic techno combined !


Outstanding

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
4 Feb 2020 6:24PM
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This Outstanding 1982 advertisement of a very beautiful sailor speaks for itself.

John340
QLD, 3045 posts
5 Feb 2020 6:10AM
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No to both of Belly25's questions.

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
5 Feb 2020 10:37AM
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Can someone in Sydney please re-enact this shot of Rhonda Smith from 1983 but do it on an LT. It is very cool and it might be one of the top windsurfing shots ever.







Jethrow
NSW, 1224 posts
5 Feb 2020 4:49PM
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I don't think you're allowed to windsurf on that part of the harbour anymore...

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
14 Feb 2020 11:24AM
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Jethrow said..
I don't think you're allowed to windsurf on that part of the harbour anymore...



Yes it appears so. That makes that cover pretty cool. Rhonda Smith also very good subject.

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
14 Feb 2020 11:33AM
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The great thing about the Windsurfer LT is that every week we now have racing events at club level for the Windsurfing community. It is fun and it intensifies life and it is a good workout. It makes you fitter and it is always a challenge tactically and in terms of board handling and tuning on equal one design craft where the sailor is the most important not the equipment. Now in WA we have the second Windsurfer LT State Championship. The Notice of Race is out now as well as the entry link for the WA Windsurfer State Championship.

sopyc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-WINDSURFER-CLASS-STATE-CHAMPIONSHIPS-NoR-FINAL.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2p6XVaJ7LPl7ACZavPd5Rx_cduoC6YyNqQcEpWVz8l5DB8o-e0qo1NNu0

It should be a great day of racing.

MatStirl
TAS, 136 posts
18 Apr 2020 8:20PM
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MatStirl
TAS, 136 posts
18 Apr 2020 8:21PM
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Old school wavesailing from today at Cremorne TAS.
Got some video but no idea how to upload

Gestalt
QLD, 14119 posts
18 Apr 2020 8:23PM
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epic!

MatStirl
TAS, 136 posts
18 Apr 2020 8:23PM
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lotofwind
NSW, 6450 posts
18 Apr 2020 8:27PM
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I love the old historic photographs from back in the 70's.

fanatic02
NSW, 300 posts
18 Apr 2020 11:09PM
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Just bite the bullet Belly . Get that Lt you desire

forceten
1312 posts
18 Apr 2020 10:44PM
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I have it on good authority, that this ,whatever it is long Tom, has neither ruined, nor replaced windsurfing.
Studies from Iceland to Tibet released, of course in the shadow of covid19 events, have confirmed that windsurfing is alive. Since this thread started like 5 months ago, the Sky has not fallen, the earth has not melted,nor dipped out of orbit, the sun hasn't kooled.
alive and well , depends on a definition.New gear, is somewhere waiting to be released like the F1 season it's on a back burner.


Harrow
NSW, 4520 posts
19 Apr 2020 10:35PM
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lotofwind said..
Nothing wrong with liking the golden oldie abc music,
never heard of any of those ones though, don't think JJJ plays anything from back then.
a sunnyboy is what they use to call an ice block in the 70's????????

Seriously? Shame, shame, shame! You shouldn't be allowed to cross Aussie sand if you don't know Sunnyboys. (Eeek, am I really an oldie? Just realised I was in my 30's when I posted that avatar photo, and now I'm in my 50's )

forceten
1312 posts
20 Apr 2020 8:13PM
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I like the photos, more females, less of guys half hug each other.

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
25 Apr 2020 1:29PM
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This wavesailing legend has come full circle and has just taken ownership of a new Windsurfer LT in California.





www.mauiglorydays.com/blog/boyd-wonder?fbclid=IwAR3bveG9XS3vkoRrVJCEhK4ADRMe6naA2zhsV4XcYfHpvIeb4DE4KhKpFhw

timbat
ACT, 43 posts
11 May 2020 12:28PM
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Anyone know the actual boom measurement of the sail ? Think they supply a 180-240 cm boom but the exact boom would be great!

lotofwind
NSW, 6450 posts
11 May 2020 6:52PM
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So going by the pictures posted on here.
LT advertising,..... verses the actual LT reality.

THE ADVERTISED

THE REALITY





All in good fun

Imax1
QLD, 4524 posts
11 May 2020 9:35PM
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To the original question ,
i think no ,
It did not ruin it at all.
Do kiters , surfers , foilers have the opportunity of having this conversation ?

Gestalt
QLD, 14119 posts
12 May 2020 12:33AM
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The King (Robby N) said recently..

the LT was the best one design option for the olympics......

lakedynamis
5 posts
12 May 2020 1:49AM
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Can anybody tell me what the letters LT stand for? Strangely, I was not able to find the meaning of this acronym :)

RichardG
WA, 3743 posts
12 May 2020 2:13AM
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LT means I think "Light Technology". It is about 5 kg or more lighter than the original Windsurfer and Windsurfer One Design.

lakedynamis
5 posts
13 May 2020 4:16AM
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RichardG, thank you! Do I get it right that nowadays LT stands more for a long board in general, and not that much for light technology? Which year was the Windsurfer LT created?



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