lotofwind said..
The LT is not designed for the kids or juniors, they cant even carry a beast like that from off the boat trailer 10m to the water by themselves let alone carry one walking to the beach or on their bike or bus.
I guess thats why all the young ins are all now going towards the windsurfing evolution of windwinging, which is more aimed about having fun on the water, instead of the old sailing club competitions and racing style the last generation seemed to think was the main attraction.

Wrong. Our youngest was carrying her OD to the water when she was about 11, and although she was strong she was also quite slender and small for her size.

There's more kids in Australia who are sailing at clubs than with kites or wings, so it's still the main attraction.

AUS126 said..

lotofwind said..
The LT is not designed for the kids or juniors, they cant even carry a beast like that from off the boat trailer 10m to the water by themselves let alone carry one walking to the beach or on their bike or bus.
I guess thats why all the young ins are all now going towards the windsurfing evolution of windwinging, which is more aimed about having fun on the water, instead of the old sailing club competitions and racing style the last generation seemed to think was the main attraction.

This lotowind fella might be a **** stirer but he is actually quite observent and seems to know what's going on.

Are the young sailors getting into windwinging?

lotofwind said..

^^^^ I hope you are right and lots of kids dont start kiting, the less kiters or polers on the water the better I reckon.
As for the dangers, there are waaaay more sailing deaths than kiting deaths. Not sure why you keep comparing it to kiting though as they are totally different, ones sailing the others more wakeboarding/surfing.
110 kiters in 10 years world wide compared to 271 sailors in 10 years in just the USA alone let alone the rest of the world
WOW, you sailors are a risky dangerous bunch lol
Get your kids into football, way less deaths and safer than sailing.

More Deaths from Sailing than Football >>

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2016/04/04/study-finds-more-deaths...

4/4/2016 ? During the 11-year study period, 271 deaths were related to sailing versus the 197 incidents of American football players who died during play or practice.

There's vastly more sailors in the USA than kitesurfers, so it's illogical to just compare the basic numbers.

Capsizing kills a high number of small-boat sailors in the USA but very few in Australia and many other countries because many of the most popular US boats are very old designs that the crew cannot re-right and empty easily, like Lightnings, Flying Scots and Thistles. Kids in Australia sail very different boats.

The biggest number of deaths were drunks on yachts, which has no relevance at all to kids at clubs on dinghies.

The US study includes ocean racing, which is not what we're talking about kids doing with their dinghies.

If a kid can't handle a 4.5 Wally sail he can use what ever rig he wants in Victoria.
What you do in QLD and NSW it's your business
We teach kids to windsurf and one of them is going to the Olympics too !

AUS 814 said..

windsufering said..
If a kid can't handle a 4.5 Wally sail he can use what ever rig he wants in Victoria.
What you do in QLD and NSW it's your business
We teach kids to windsurf and one of them is going to the Olympics too !

Which one ?

Fx

Gestalt said..

windsufering said..

AUS 814 said..

windsufering said..
If a kid can't handle a 4.5 Wally sail he can use what ever rig he wants in Victoria.
What you do in QLD and NSW it's your business
We teach kids to windsurf and one of them is going to the Olympics too !

Which one ?

Fx

great news, who and what age?

As usual there is no Australian in either the RSX for men or women for Tokyo. To qualify for the Team, sailors or crews must achieve a top 10 placing at the World Championships in their class, or have the potential to do so within two years. The RSX guys and girls did not meet the test, unless I have missed it. If we had the LT as the Olympic class we would have either Nick Bez or Tim Gourlay as gold medal chances. Australians are tops in LT. Jessica Crisp could probably win the gold in the LT for women. What shame. Anyway foiling will be a new era, new dimension and attract new sailors and medal chances globally, might be even more competitive than RSX. Will Aussies be able to be in the top 10 and meet the standards. ? I hope so its been a while between drinks for us: Why is this so? Since Bruce Wylie's Windsurfer class demo gold in LA in 1984, Greg Hyde's sixth in Los Angeles, 1984 winning the last race, in Windglider. Brad Hiles of WA would have won in '88 but he was not sent. Then Lars Kleppich got a bronze in Barcelona in 1992 in the Lechner- Australian sailing are so disdainful of windsurfing they even referred to that as a Mistral, sad really. Then again they refer to WA late top sailor Rolly Tasker's gold in 1956 as in 12 metre when they meant 12 m2 Sharpie ! I guess they are not sharp on website editing.

www.australiansailingteam.com.au/australian-team/australian-sailing-team/

www.australiansailingteam.com.au/australian-team/australian-sailing-squad/

You guys can't work it out.
LOL
if Chris 249 can tell me how he taught a guy and a girl how to windsurf and they went on to great things .
i can too .
Work it out 49 fx two ladies , skipper from Vic.

windsufering said..
You guys can't work it out.
LOL
if Chris 249 can tell me how he taught a guy and a girl how to windsurf and they went on to great things .
i can too .
Work it out 49 fx two ladies , skipper from Vic.

Outstanding as per usual

Not very nice

Cheers

True, but that last pic from windsuferings personnel home photos the kids are naked. But then again he has trained many juniors to be Olympic champions.
Na, just joking. The real reason is it was the kids that asked him to not show their true identity to avoid embarrassment and bashings at school for LT sailing.

Mark _australia said..

MatStirl said.. Surely we haven't got so PC that we need to block out faces in a group picture.
Anyone windsurfing is good. Anyone encouraging them is even better.

He probably does it due to the weirdo stalker here.

The ,
only one ?

Hi Folks,

Just received my new centerboard after some time waiting as my new board came without one. First sail with new centreboard and it has cracked the casing. The new centreboard has hard plastic fins on the top which when retracted (board down) hits the casing. Nothing stops this happening, in which case, no rubber on centerboard or backstop in casing to stop it hitting deck. I am trying to get some new plates under warranty and then will need to come up with rubber/foam pad for back of centerboard so it doesn't happen again. Or is their something wrong with my new centerboard or case for this to happen.

Harcarve1 thanks for the input. What are you talking about?. It's no dent it has cracked the outer layer of the case and it's gone.

It have no white rubber on centerboard This new centerboard type that is being supplied is rock hard plastic top???
The only way to stop the centerboard racking back I see is to remove the side plates and adhesive a stopping point there so the center board doesn't rack back onto the plate??? What black rubber strip??