This is the 4th 'freebie' board, and probably the last, (well according to my wife anyway... )
It's 12'4" long, 25" wide and 7" thick where I can measure trough the centre fin box. It seems to be a plastic outer, but there's one small ding, and it looks like it might even be surfboard foam inside. The others I've got have all been windsurfers, but where does this monster fit into the gene pool?
Now this one might be big enough to SUP...
Cheers, Glen.
bic 250, cheap blowmoulded (heavy) version of the original dufour wing that boinged through chop like a battery operated vibrator. most owners did their 7th, 11th and 16th vertebrae whilst loading board onto roof racks. now extensively used for seawall construction in dubai.
oh yeah mid eighties.
Geez!
I learnt windsurfing on this board with a 4m as heavy at a current 12m and the boom you were attaching with a rope on the mast.
I remember how hard it was to jibe... and how hard I had to pull it on the beach
Indeed a Bic 250!
I didn't think it was dufour wing..I learnt on one of those and felt it looked nicer than that.. I remember wedging my front foot against the mast to prevent being catapulted when the wind hit 12kts
Cripes that's Fishing Point in the background.. Boy it looks a lot different these days! Not many houses back then..
Thanks for the information people!
Looks like its 'future' is on Ephraim Island on the Gold Coast, in my daughter and son in law's garage. The plan is to buy lifejackets for the grandkids, a couple of cheap paddles for anyone (like me) silly enough to throw a leg over it, and take the little ones for rides around the island.
Cheers, Glen.
Probably a little fanger back in those days but really its looks like my mothers ironing board from the 80s !
Good memories for me there. The BIC 250 was the board I learnt on. Got along nicely in the light stuff.
yup... my first board too. Belonged to my uncle before but he build himself a catamaran instead. ah, those were the days. When 20 knts was considered a storm and harnesses where made of seat belts.
Bic & Dufour were two different things, til they merged (1980?). I think the two quite different products went on for a couple of years.
Dufour was a flatish hard plastic board, round-hollow at the back with sharp edges.
Bic models were the large full plastic-ish thing you brought out in this thread.
If I recall - me was young - both had nearly untieable booms, and certainly worse even than the Windsurfer.
Both was a bit of a fugly...