Select to expand quotefjdoug said..RichardG said..
All great the Bomboras. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Bombora-Brochure-1987?page=2 Sailquik please also post the 1988 Bombora brochure as you promised some time ago. Come on !
the rockerline on these were pretty awesome
That could well be one of LeeD 's designs
Select to expand quoteRichardG said..
All great the Bomboras. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Bombora-Brochure-1987?page=2 Sailquik please also post the 1988 Bombora brochure as you promised some time ago. Come on !
Sorry Richard, I dont have the scans of that one on my hard drives, and the Brochure is in storage at another location. Hopefully, I will have a reason to go there soon and get on with scanning and posting. 
when I was about 19 or 20 and getting back into windsurfing the only board I owned was a sub 70L wave board from when I was a little kid.
Since I was living in Brisbane and sailing at the Goldy at the time I decided that I needed a bigger board to float my fat guts around, so off to some bloke my mate knew I think was known as "The Kernel," and with great joy I bought this yellow freestyle wave board I think it had the initials AK on it.
Well that board was the biggest piece of **** ever. Rails so sharp you could shave with them, so much scoop it made the old Starboard Quads look modest, and as I discovered the worst glass job known to man. It looked good but it wasn't water tight.. whoever made that board should have burned it.
I wonder if the shaper was the person behind AK homes?
Select to expand quotecurac said..
when I was about 19 or 20 and getting back into windsurfing the only board I owned was a sub 70L wave board from when I was a little kid.
Since I was living in Brisbane and sailing at the Goldy at the time I decided that I needed a bigger board to float my fat guts around, so off to some bloke my mate knew I think was known as "The Kernel," and with great joy I bought this yellow freestyle wave board I think it had the initials AK on it.
Well that board was the biggest piece of **** ever. Rails so sharp you could shave with them, so much scoop it made the old Starboard Quads look modest, and as I discovered the worst glass job known to man. It looked good but it wasn't water tight.. whoever made that board should have burned it.
I wonder if the shaper was the person behind AK homes?
The Kernel!!!!! RIP Ken! He was a wheeler and dealer but a lovely guy, known all over Australia by the sounds of it. He sold some dodgy boards/gear but always cheap.
He owes me about 10 packets of CC chips, old bugger always helped himself to my chips when i was looking at gear in the back of his van.
For met it has to be the browning, I don't know if browning(yeah browning arm company) was only selling windsurfing in North America...but they did sell windsurfing board for a while...and I bough a speed gun and I also tried the yellow wave rider i think...mans that was crap!!!
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I already stated the Evo was good for small, slowmoving waves because it turned well at slow speed.
Punta San Carlos has slow moving, fast peeling waves, I assUme like Oz.
PSC wave is soooo slooow and not much punch, but super fun. It's not the same as what I see on video of Oz...specially the Maragaret river or west coast.
I did the east coast of Australia and part of the south coast, quite good was sailing at least 3 times a week and east coast could be compare to OBX. It could be punishing when it's pounding. Maybe Gerroa could looks like as PSC, I did not sail Gerroa while I was there...I wasn't lucky(stayed there for 2 days only) but if you google Gerroa you might agree. Now, is Gerroa as soft as PSC, I don't know but it look like a hell of a fun spot! I had a Drop Wave 78L with the stars on the board while in Australia...I would say it was my second worst board..not because it was not sailing well..because I broke the board in half on a flat water day...
Worst board for me at the stage of windsurfing I was at was the 100lt isonic I bought second hand when I first got back into windsurfing after a *long* break. My last short board had been a custom wave board from the previous millenium. I had no clue, I hadn't kept up with the sport and evolution of boards, etc, and a friend told me it was an awesome board. Man that board was SO wrong for me at that time. Everything seemed to be in the wrong place, getting my foot it the rear strap was a moment of rare triumph, and getting it on to the plane was a terror filled out of control horror show. Gybe? Got any other funny jokes? It almost forced me into my second retirement. I sold it for what I paid for it, now that I have rebuilt my skill on modern gear, I sort of wish I'd kept it.
With cammd on this
the SB 167w turned me off formula - under 10 knots with a soft fin it hooked upwind but felt stuck to the water once you got to the top mark
over 10 knots it had a mind of rodeo bull on ice
I couldn't believe after a good all round board in the 161/162 they could stuff up and release something only a 110kg monster could ride
Not the worst board but the worst universal was the down haul system that doubled as the universal tendon.
In the 80's working in the Whitsundays loved the "New Toy" it radical (8') and tough. Suited the back of a work ute.
Tried all rope types didn't know about dyneema (probably didn't exist) so many self rescues back to shore.
Select to expand quotesailquik said..RichardG said..
All great the Bomboras. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Bombora-Brochure-1987?page=2 Sailquik please also post the 1988 Bombora brochure as you promised some time ago. Come on !
Sorry Richard, I dont have the scans of that one on my hard drives, and the Brochure is in storage at another location. Hopefully, I will have a reason to go there soon and get on with scanning and posting.
That is much appreciated Sailquik. Thanks again.
It might be now said that a certain number of boards mentioned in these posts will not sell too well in the second hand section. 
Select to expand quoteMarkSSC said..
It might be now said that a certain number of boards mentioned in these posts will not sell too well in the second hand section.
I was talking to a foil racer the other day, apparently the SB167W makes for an excellent foil racing board due to the width at the back. Probably a better market for it now than when I sold it, I guess all formula boards in general have become in demand again as foil platforms.
Klepper waveboard 280cm. Fluoro yellow the colour of sick. It actually was a very light board for it's day and looked awesome. The problem was the plastic screwed-in fin box was so brittle that the minute there was any speed it would crack around the mounting screws. Every.Single.Time. Eventually I traded it in for a Fanatic sick lime green needle stick thing that sailed just as bad but at least didn't break. The shop owner was so afraid of someone buying my old board that he cut it up as a condition of my trade-in.
Select to expand quoteremery said..
My first experience windsurfing was in about 1982 on this horrific, gigantic thing with a flat rubber nose, super slippery deck with adjistable centreboard. I wish I could remember what brand it was. I might have a photo somewhere. Anyway, that was the worst thing I ever rode.
Found it through google image search. These photos of the vintage board were in a vintage Seabreeze thread that was too old to reply to.
The WindSpeed was horrific, it had the slipperiest deck. It was pretty light for the volume. I took it in the first (I think Bridge to Bridge races), in next to no wind it was quite fast. If I knew something about sailing and wind direction I might have done ok.
