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Windsurf Magazine UK

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Created by asturcon A week ago, 16 Mar 2025
asturcon
53 posts
16 Mar 2025 8:19PM
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Can anybody tell me if the Windsurf Magazine is still acive. I have the Jan/Feb issue but cannot find a marz issue.
With regards,
JJ

merlincat
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17 Mar 2025 3:41AM
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asturcon said..
Can anybody tell me if the Windsurf Magazine is still acive. I have the Jan/Feb issue but cannot find a marz issue.
With regards,
JJ


Hi JJ,

Unfortunately, that is the last issue. If you read the editorial it's actually written by Mark, the owner of Windsurf.
JC is going to keep the website live.
It's a shame.
Rob

stehsegler
WA, 3485 posts
17 Mar 2025 9:49AM
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From what I can see the only monthly windsurf Magazine left is the German "Surf Magazin".

Surf Magazin used to do 45,000 print copies a month about 10 years ago... doesn't look like they still make numbers freely available unless you advertise with them. I think they can still make it works because they are part of a publishing house that specialises in sports publications, Germany is a relatively big market for windsurfing and magazines are stocked in a large variety of places outside of Newsagents. That said those numbers across the industry have been shrinking between 4 and 9% year on year.

asturcon
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17 Mar 2025 10:17PM
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Thank You Stehsegler and Merlincat, I?m sorry to hear that.
With regards,
John

Doggerland
189 posts
17 Mar 2025 10:17PM
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There is still www.planchemag.fr/ toujours frais comme une bonne baguette
also www.dailydose.de/index.htm refusing to die

asturcon
53 posts
17 Mar 2025 10:18PM
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Thank You Stehsegler and Merlincat, I?m sorry to hear that.
With regards,
John

Basher
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17 Mar 2025 10:45PM
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I think the plan is to keep the Windsurf mag website active, and it's just the print version that has gone.

If you check out www.windsurf.co.uk , you'll find a lot of new articles, published in the last few days.

stehsegler
WA, 3485 posts
17 Mar 2025 10:52PM
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Doggerland said..
There is still www.planchemag.fr/ toujours frais comme une bonne baguette
also www.dailydose.de/index.htm refusing to die


Thanks for finding the French Mag. The URL I had for them didn't work so I assumed the mag was defunct. I stand corrected.

RE Dailydose there is also Stehsegelrevue.com but that's mainly a pic of the day site now.

There used to be a really good German Mag called "Surfer". It was more like a life style mag along the lines of monsterchildren.com but instead of skateboarding, design, art, photography, surf it focus on water sports including wind sports.

Kit3kat
QLD, 155 posts
Tuesday , 18 Mar 2025 8:14PM
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stehsegler said..
From what I can see the only monthly windsurf Magazine left is the German "Surf Magazin".

Surf Magazin used to do 45,000 print copies a month about 10 years ago... doesn't look like they still make numbers freely available unless you advertise with them. I think they can still make it works because they are part of a publishing house that specialises in sports publications, Germany is a relatively big market for windsurfing and magazines are stocked in a large variety of places outside of Newsagents. That said those numbers across the industry have been shrinking between 4 and 9% year on year.



yeah germany has (had) a hugggee market for magazines. I have no idea why. Every supermarket would sell like 20 different computer magazines etc. I think Germans love reading this stuff over their 4h weekend breakfast....

Can't imagine that the market is too big anymore but a lot of magazines have moved to online reading with payed extra subscriptions which are relatively popular in germany still. My relatives have a few subscriptions. Opinionated press is a big part of german reading culture and dinnertable discussions...

Nicko29
63 posts
Thursday , 20 Mar 2025 5:58AM
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There is also windmag in France.

gavnwend
WA, 1369 posts
Thursday , 20 Mar 2025 7:34AM
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I remember the old Aussie windsurf mag, Freesail.l think it was only published twice a year.



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