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Forums > Windsurfing General

How to plane in zero knots

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Created by shear tip > 9 months ago, 23 May 2008
shear tip
NSW, 1125 posts
23 May 2008 11:18PM
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OK, so DavMen and I are having a little brainstorm on how to cope with the Sydney doldrums. Do you guys reckon you could attach a rig to this thing and use the apparent wind to hook in and hang on? It even looks like a Hypersonic with it's concaves...

DavMen
NSW, 1500 posts
24 May 2008 11:03AM
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You could have an RF throttle control on each side of the boom - and a gybe button to give you say 4 sec's of throttle through the transition © ?

actiomax
NSW, 1575 posts
24 May 2008 5:44PM
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I haven't seen this model surf jet before but in the 1950s the hawaiian surf rescue used a aluminum hollow board with a small jet inside for surf rescue it was about six inches thickness pretty cool no huge hump on the back although i know they didn't get 225hp out of it

evlPanda
NSW, 9204 posts
24 May 2008 10:01PM
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Even fat healthy Americans can plane in less wind than me.

stribo
QLD, 1628 posts
25 May 2008 1:30PM
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That would be boring after 10 minutes

DavMen
NSW, 1500 posts
25 May 2008 2:28PM
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stribo said...

That would be boring after 10 minutes


Yeah maybe but, comming from a windsurfer, you wanna know what boring is - try living in Sydney this time of year!

NotWal
QLD, 7428 posts
25 May 2008 5:40PM
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DavMen said...

stribo said...

That would be boring after 10 minutes


Yeah maybe but, comming from a windsurfer, you wanna know what boring is - try living in Sydney this time of year!




I'm inclined to sympathise but then I look at guys like Remco and Golito et al and see what they do on light wind days. All you need is 6 or 7 knots to make something of it. Of course if its cold too it can be hard to raise enthusiasm for light wind freestyle. It would be more interesting than that motorised surf board though. That's a real bogan toy.

nobody
NSW, 437 posts
25 May 2008 11:59PM
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NotWal said...

DavMen said...

stribo said...

That would be boring after 10 minutes


Yeah maybe but, comming from a windsurfer, you wanna know what boring is - try living in Sydney this time of year!




I'm inclined to sympathise but then I look at guys like Remco and Golito et al and see what they do on light wind days. All you need is 6 or 7 knots to make something of it. Of course if its cold too it can be hard to raise enthusiasm for light wind freestyle. It would be more interesting than that motorised surf board though. That's a real bogan toy.

Sooner or later I thought someone was going to say it. I didn't want it to be me. I'm sure there are differences between the above and a jet ski, but don't think there would be too much in it.

Have you thought of SUP? They make inflatable ones now which are cheaper. Should be fun in small surf.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38158

DavMen
NSW, 1500 posts
26 May 2008 9:08AM
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nobody said...

NotWal said...

DavMen said...

stribo said...

That would be boring after 10 minutes


Yeah maybe but, comming from a windsurfer, you wanna know what boring is - try living in Sydney this time of year!




I'm inclined to sympathise but then I look at guys like Remco and Golito et al and see what they do on light wind days. All you need is 6 or 7 knots to make something of it. Of course if its cold too it can be hard to raise enthusiasm for light wind freestyle. It would be more interesting than that motorised surf board though. That's a real bogan toy.

Sooner or later I thought someone was going to say it. I didn't want it to be me. I'm sure there are differences between the above and a jet ski, but don't think there would be too much in it.

Have you thought of SUP? They make inflatable ones now which are cheaper. Should be fun in small surf.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38158



OMG

I think the doldrums have hit windsurfers (normaly a jovial lot)a lot harder than I thought - Maybe ShearTip should have labeled it as hummor, seems too many poeple took it way too seriously.



shear tip
NSW, 1125 posts
26 May 2008 10:18AM
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Humour? I've half finished the thing! I followed actionmax's advice and put a 225HP motor on the back. 225cc just wouldn't crack 50 knots.

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
26 May 2008 11:56AM
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I saw one of those things in Korea, around 2004...they called it a "Jet Board".

It was about 100 bucks a go, if I remember rightly, so being the cheap b@$t@rd I am, I gave it a miss.

puffin
235 posts
29 May 2008 8:54PM
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Do it for real:

www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/09/when-you-absolu.html



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