How to plane in zero knots

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...

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

That would be boring after 10 minutes

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.

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.

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.