Hello,
I've just started this great sport and after purchasing some pre-loved windsurfing gear (about 14? years ago), and not realising at the time that old 70lt boards wouldn't be the best boards for a 100kg begginner to learn on, gave it up after a couple of go's. This year I bought a new 165lt board and rig and realised that I should've had my brain in gear a decade ago, when I was younger and fitter to enjoy what I'm 'enduring' now as a 33y/o begginner.
Anyway, going through the old boards and sails (sails not much good), I found a race-style board with minimal info on it (custom made I think) and I was wondering if the knowledge base of seabreeze could help me.
The 3 boards I purchased were 2/ bombora (pink) plastic wave boards and an 'epoxy kevlar' board in excellent condition. I know that the guy I bought them off raced (going by the numbers and sponsor stickers on the sails) but would anyone know of a board designer by the name of "Bill Riddell"? the board would be 9' x 2' with n/p footstraps and would have to be 15-25 years old.
Just curious, but the board (even in this age of technology) looks fast, you could cut your hand on the rail edge. I'm not good enough to give it a go, but hope to get it on the water by the end of the year.
Anyway, any help would do, and I hope to post more (less words, I hope) in a forum that I'm sure will help me enjoy the sport even more than I am now.....
Sailhack..
The board is pure white with no graphics on it at all, except for the small 'epoxy kevlar' warning sticker and the 'design by Bill Riddell' in a small basic font. The reason I'm so curious about it, it has some small wear on the footstraps, but the board itself looks as if it hasn't seen water, the underside has a very slight flat 'V' shape and is very glossy. 
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