that is insane! massive respect for those guys back then! how did they do what we do today with that sort of gear!! and i thinks its phill babhe at westlakes opposite footy park??? hahahaha and the second to last photo is definatly seacliff. what year are these from!!

HAIL said...

that is insane! massive respect for those guys back then! how did they do what we do today with that sort of gear!! and i thinks its phill babhe at westlakes opposite footy park??? hahahaha and the second to last photo is definatly seacliff. what year are these from!!

Haha ... trick question. I reckon Phil Bache, watching the Round Delfin Island race.

Picture 10 with the Tyronsea sail is Kent reserve looking at Granite Island

IS picture 13 Robe with the bombie reef in the top corner?

I reckon we should make the demo Day a Retro Day where everyone brings their retro gear so those "unlucky" ones who never used the boards we learnt on can see how much fun it was in those days.
Plus I'd love to know where some of those Gravelle boards I did artwork on, ended up.

great shots/hair

ps- glenelg north isnt bugg'd up by holdfast shores- its still my regular Adelaide beach (has been since '80s). Now sail at ramp, 200m nth of King St
Dredge outflow has created a bar that works well. There are submerged reefs (same sort as semaphore sand bags) being sunk soon that may make it better than its heyday: it should be like cabo verde, probably better.
Watch BOM (adelaide airport) about 230pm and you will see it builds stronger earlier than semaphore and last year was almost as windy overall; only it goes SE earlier.
Buildings dont affect it- if it goes SE you were always stuffed anyway.
Shane and i are the only ones that sail there; great to have some company (cranked Sunday + last weekend), also welcome to demo OES boards.

divaldo said...

Tonto said...

Cool - I'll bring this:

Just not sure I can remember where I left it.
I reckon we should start a thread for retro SA windsurfing photos.

I take it you dont tack on this board?

Only with the mast fully back in the track as shown ...

Westy, thats it. I was thinking Wardy, close.
Anyway Pete looks like your gonna have to send that carton Westward.

After seeing those photos I understand why I never started sailing in the 80's and why us surfers would refer to the" bunch of wind wankers" out at the mid. Remember we used to chat with the crew as we drank at the Seacliff on a Thursday night - Mr Pridham (Jump City boards or something) and other crew who I can't remember (too many beers has dulled my name recall)

It sure has come a long way.

What no harnesses - or can't I see them!!!

boardstock said...

I'm going to give away my age now....but the guy who is sailing with the Tyronsea sail in many of the Photos is Pete Jeffery (PJ), the Green Retro board used to belong to a guy called Rudi Afnan. I even think I might of sailed it!
Yes Ben is right that is Westie on the bonnet of his old Holden, which he actually drove into the sea at the BSYC ramp and their was a seabreeze blowing that day so Hally, Brenton Allan and I gybed around his car whilst he sat in it!!

Ah the memories!!

I went to school with Brenton Allen, what is he doing now?

OK, have a nomination from a third party (almost surprisingly not in some of the pics himself) that this one is Peter Jeffrey at West Lakes, too:

divaldo said...

boardstock said...

I'm going to give away my age now....but the guy who is sailing with the Tyronsea sail in many of the Photos is Pete Jeffery (PJ), the Green Retro board used to belong to a guy called Rudi Afnan. I even think I might of sailed it!
Yes Ben is right that is Westie on the bonnet of his old Holden, which he actually drove into the sea at the BSYC ramp and their was a seabreeze blowing that day so Hally, Brenton Allan and I gybed around his car whilst he sat in it!!

Ah the memories!!

I went to school with Brenton Allen, what is he doing now?

Peter Jefferey made my first short board 7'10" thruster. youd never float on it today.
The Peter Jeffrey Model it was a cracker.Reckon i even buffed with some vitamin "I"
Dont reckon thats Brett Yardley tho, wrong hair.

Didnt westy drive it into the sea cause Pisters tapped a cone into the back and set it on fire.thats what i remember.
That looks like a young young ,still normal pisters on the bonnet.

Classic shot from in the water looking back on my beloved seacliff.

Brenton Allen is a junkie these days, totally scattered.If you see him crack him one in the head cause he needs it, then tell him its from the windsurf crew.
He tried to steal our friends handbag at a nightclub and we were gonna bash him and it turned out to be Brenton,and he tried to sell us meth and pulled out a full ounce bag of the ****. pity but yet another meth head ice lost it

Peter Jefferey made my first board 7'10" thruster. youd never float on it today.

All before my time, but I do recognise the sail in the second picture down on the right hand side: the first sail I owned and learnt to sail with.