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Al Planet
Al Planet
TAS
1548 posts
TAS, 1548 posts
24 Apr 2012 12:17pm
I dont know if this has already been posted but its pretty funny...in a weird french kind of way....nice sailing too.


ABCELMO
ABCELMO
104 posts
104 posts
24 Apr 2012 10:33am
Nerve racking at the start but gets better
FiremanSam
FiremanSam
VIC
148 posts
VIC, 148 posts
24 Apr 2012 1:46pm
Great vid.... The Fosters cap is a nice touch !

Wow - so much traffic on the waves at one point !
Gonewindsurfing247
Gonewindsurfing247
WA
966 posts
WA, 966 posts
24 Apr 2012 12:03pm
One of those ramps at Safety Bay would go off! Where do you get those?
WindmanV
WindmanV
VIC
826 posts
VIC, 826 posts
25 Apr 2012 5:35pm
Hi, GWS,

You have to build them, BUT.....

Some tricky windsurfers tried to make a ramp at one of my local beaches, many years ago. The ramp was made up of a number of plastic pipes (can't recall the sizes, but they were probably about 70mm OD, joined with pipe cement). The ramp failed very quickly because the designer didn't take into account the stress on the joints caused by wave action, the bending moments caused at one end and not the other and when the sailors actually started to hit the ramp, it failed catastrophically.

The moral is: the ramps look easy to build, but there's decent engineering behind the design.

Hope this helps.
sideskirt
sideskirt
328 posts
328 posts
25 Apr 2012 7:17pm
actually it's the same ramp as you would use for wakepark in my opinion, with that expensive plastic sh1t to provide a good slide... so you need few 2x4s and plywood pannels, of course some flotation has to be provided.

The tricky part is to make a custom board for this purpose...if you've seen the other vid (
) they have like 5 or more tiny fins so they can use the elements
Troyrotor
Troyrotor
QLD
318 posts
QLD, 318 posts
26 Apr 2012 9:22am
2:05 video above the guy with the yellow setup is whering sneakers.
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