Wow thanks for posting this, the blond dude with the white glasses is Kelly Sullivan, he and my buddy Mark were involved with the F2 promotional team while we lived in Haiku Maui in 1984. I got to use a bunch of those prototype fully batten sails at Hookipa after the F2 promotion was done. What a blast from the past. Larry
Ah, those where the days, when the sail could turn on you like a sumo wrestler, if the wind gusted above the sail range. When you would look down and see a canal of water between the mast base and the foot straps that was growing ever wider, because the ridiculously long board had just broken in half. When we had to constantly make modified small centerboards which where hiked back about a foot, so the rail of the board didn't decide to turn 90 degrees on its side. When we had to rebuild the fin box area, and re-enforce it enough to handle high winds. When full battens and camber inducers where luxury items.
Allmost all the classic 80ies board manufactures/brands are now gone e.g. F2, Mistral, Klepper, Sailboard, Fanatic (now Duotone), Alpha, Tencate etc. French BIC is perhabs the only one still in business. I wonder why that is.
Wow thanks for posting this, the blond dude with the white glasses is Kelly Sullivan, he and my buddy Mark were involved with the F2 promotional team while we lived in Haiku Maui in 1984. I got to use a bunch of those prototype fully batten sails at Hookipa after the F2 promotion was done. What a blast from the past. Larry
Wow thanks for posting too! What a time you must have had!
How cool to watch this!
Still have my surfpartner
Ah, those where the days, when the sail could turn on you like a sumo wrestler, if the wind gusted above the sail range. When you would look down and see a canal of water between the mast base and the foot straps that was growing ever wider, because the ridiculously long board had just broken in half. When we had to constantly make modified small centerboards which where hiked back about a foot, so the rail of the board didn't decide to turn 90 degrees on its side. When we had to rebuild the fin box area, and re-enforce it enough to handle high winds. When full battens and camber inducers where luxury items.
in 1983 I had a Mistral Kailua, and in 1884 when I lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a whole year I bought myself a Mistral Tarifa.
Still have my Sunset
those were the days
Allmost all the classic 80ies board manufactures/brands are now gone e.g. F2, Mistral, Klepper, Sailboard, Fanatic (now Duotone), Alpha, Tencate etc. French BIC is perhabs the only one still in business. I wonder why that is.
Tiga is gone, too. Tiga Slalom was the best board of that times.