Does anyone actually refer to their board alone as a windsurfer? Sad I know, but I am genuinely curious. Mmmm... semantics.

Is the only reference to "sailboarding" on this website in this forum topic BTW, this topic lives under: All Forums > WindSurfing > General

knot board said...

By that reasoning, wouldn't the sport of riding a windsurfer be Windsurfering?

It could be but fortunately in English we can remove one suffix and replace it with another, in this case we remove the er and replace with ing.

If I see a sail on its own I would refer to it as a sail. If I see a board on its own I would refer to it as a board. However if the board and sail come together then by a mental leap I refer to it as a windsurfer.

Even though my father is German and I can speak a bit of German I find English is a pleasant but imprecise language in that a pleasant idea such as surfing the wind can be used to create the word windsurfer.

Thats what its all about, the idea of surfing with the wind. How great is that?

knot board said...

Scenario - Laying in front of you on the ground are several different boards.

1. a kite board
2. a skate board
3. a snow board
4. a wake board
5. a boogie board
6. a sail board

Now describe the sport performed on each board

1. Kiteboarding
2. Skateboarding
3. snowboarding
4. wakeboarding
5. boogieboarding
6. windsurfing

Can you pick the odd one out


Note: I intentionally left out surf board to avoid controversy because I'm yet to meet anyone who goes surfboarding

Hmmmmm... I'm sure he must be wrong,... but the logic is compelling.

Nope! Definitely wrong!
Because I don't have a snowboard or a wakeboard or a skateboard, so if you remove these three, the remaining number is not large enough to be statistically significant.

Yeah! That too!

sail·board [seyl-bawrd, -bohrd]
1. a long board, usually of Plexiglas, used for windsurfing, having a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg.
2. a small, flat, single-masted sailboat, usually having no cockpit.


Aha, a daggerboard!!!


wind·surf·ing
–noun
a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.

Also called sailboarding, windsailing.


A noun?
What the...? Windsailing???


wind·sail·ing
–noun
windsurfing.


Another noun??? Stupid american dictionary (www.dictionary.com)


It's just too good for one name. Like sex

WINDSURFING

1. Kiteboarding
2. Skateboarding
3. snowboarding
4. wakeboarding
5. boogieboarding
6. windsurfing

Can you pick the odd one out

Yes, boogieboarding because it is for losers!

(anyway, it should be bodyboarding - they could be having the same debate)

ladies and gantlemen we have a winner its BLOODY WINDSURFING so get over it

I wonder what the eskimos call it ???[}:)]

OK OK WINDSURFING IT IS!!!!

Richiefish said...

sometimes eskimos wake up to find themselves adrift on a piece of ice that has broken off from land. In this situation they hang their parka on a spear,and using the wind, make their way back to safety. They call this "floe blowing".......

For some strange reason, the name of a former Premier of Queensland comes (no pun intended, initially at least) to mind. Can't quite work out why.

Richiefish said...

sometimes eskimos wake up to find themselves adrift on a piece of ice that has broken off from land. In this situation they hang their parka on a spear,and using the wind, make their way back to safety. They call this "floe blowing".......

Very Good
And as for MikeyS's comment, eeerrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!
BTW, did you know Floe and Joh lived in Tassie, or did until Joh left us. They had a cafe in Sheffield, and Floe made pumpkin scones. True!

...Free to call sailboarding "windsurfing"

sometimes eskimos wake up to find themselves adrift on a piece of ice that has broken off from land. In this situation they hang their parka on a spear,and using the wind, make their way back to safety. They call this "floe blowing".......




ha ha Got a tear in my eye A Flamin CLASSIC