The Grevelingen Chop Team, West Kirby fires up and other news articles Recently in the UK we were graced with a visit by some gales in a perfect direction to light up the famous West Kirby speed strip. I came online to update the article I wrote about it – West Kirby – Autumn Gales … Read more
Evaluated Ranking 2011 After the first half of the year I like to take a look on the Evaluated Ranking 2011. Before the year started I thought it would be a nice try to get a ranking every month and maybe I would get a nice position in the Evaluated Ranking at the end. Hmm, … Read more
Very Deep Deck Concave For 2011 we saw Starboard and some others lowering the mastfoot towards the waterline. Most extreme example at this moment is the Starboard iSonic. After a couple of months sailing the iSonic 107 its time to evaluate… Upgrades 107 vs 111 Upgrades: very deep deck concave, harder rails/more square rails under … Read more
Speedmenu You might be interested in just speed, the highest number on the gps. No worries! The old articles are still present and very good to use. Here some of the most popular links:1 About speedsurfing 1.1 Basics and background 1.2 Getting started 1.3 Learning speedsurfing online 1.4 Speedsurfing disciplines 1.5 Styles & techniques … Read more
The speedsecret from UK – K4 fins Steve flying with massive grip Most readers will know Steve Thorp from the gps-speedsurfing.com top 10 each year. Now you can buy his fins, K4 fins, for gps-speedsurfing but also kick-ass wavefins. The K4 speedfins are developed by Steve, Farrel O’shea and Jon Kennett (Moo Custom) Time … Read more
Strand Horst action! While I was working today getting my car good enough to get road-legal again the wind was strong. Strand Horst turned out to be really fast… some rumors: 89km/h topspeed & few 84km/h runs for Dirk Jan Knol Martin van Meurs in hospital MANY 80+++km/h peaks from different surfers Waterlevel was -60cm … Read more
[review] Suunto Ambit Peak 3 for windsurfing This is not my first GPS for windsurfing. A long time ago I started with the Garmin Foretrex (also a watch). After losing a foretrex twice I got a amarillo triptracker (navi GT 11), for this GPS a aquapack was required around my arm. After this I bought two GT31 … Read more
[review] Sonntag GPS_6 How much speed do you need! The GPS_6 takes medium wind efficiency to a higher level. It is not a lightwind fin, performance is below average in lightwind. I didn’t test it in extreme high wind, however I believe the fin is best for 20~35kn of wind. Why is it fast? I … Read more
[review] Tribal Powermax I was looking for a fast freeride fin. In 2007 I had Tectonics Falcon F1 fins (which are freeride fins). Chris Lockwood recommended these fins and I really like them. Last year I did a session with my Sonntag SL-S (an old competition fin) and I questioned myself if a freeride fin … Read more
(Sea)Weed and windsurfing future Windsurfers do not like weed, seagrass, seaweed, algue, etc. The reason is simple, if you catch weed on your windsurf fin it feels like your pulling a boat and everything becomes unstable. The only way to get rid of weed is by pulling it off your fin (which means you … Read more
