discoguy SPOTTED in Vdeviento Magazine - 2001 Board/Sail Review

Mag Editor appears to have 'cropped' the board out of the photo once realised 'the old warhorse' was potentially 20+ years old! Not cool enough for this mag, eh!

Vdeviento Magazine - 2011 Windsurf Review

From the CyberSurf Archives

Sunday 18 July 2004

Maketu cross off wind and large swell I ended up getting worked came in and went surfing instead, while I was out surfing we later found out their were 3 large earthquakes centered at Lake Rotoiti any closer to the coast and we might have had some really really really large waves.
Paul

Saturday 3 July 2004
Fergusson Park super windy day you can even get wasted on flat water.

Sven blazing a trail in the UK

"Tauranga teen Sven Pedersen is in Britain competing for the NZ Youth Sailing Team at the UK Youth Nationals off Hayling Island.

Sven, 17, is sailing in the RS:X class and at this early stage in the regatta is lying mid-fleet."
SunLive

Mr B captures some after work, Speed Creek action.

Nice vid Brent.

Good to see dnick getting his 'sailing hours' up, after an earlier sail the same day,(with discoguy and Chantelle). Is it just me, or whenever a camera comes out, Darren 'maneuvers' himself in front of it?

Demo Day - Version 2.0

Many thanks to the A'ND team for bringing the latest Gaastra/Vandal and Tabou gear down, for the Tauranga/Rotorua crew to 'paw over'. Awesome looking boards and sails kindly rigged and ready to go, however the forecast 20knots failed to come to the party.

 

Despite the crap conditions there was a good turnout, with most  participants getting wet,(in the pursuit of a good planing run or 2).  Mark looked to have made the most of the session on a Stitch/Manta combo, with consistent flying runs across the harbour.

A team trip up to Aucks may well be in order, to chase up another A'ND demo session............... in some heavier northern weather!

 

More at sessionlogs.com.

Bay of Plenty Gaastra Demo Day - Saturday 26 March

"The demo van is rolling again, Come and try the latest gear!

We decided to come back - bigger and better! AND Distribution will have the latest boards and sails from Gaastra/Vandal/Tabou on site for demo. Also we'll bring a couple of teamriders to assist, answer questions etc.

A race clinic and (weather permitting) a fun slalom event will be run, so come around for some fun, bbq and drinks

We will certainly bring the whole range of SUP's as well so we can even have some fun on the water if the wind doesn't cooperate."
A'ND Distribution

Date 26 March 2011
Location Kulim Park/Fergusson Park
Start time 11.30 am

Major Sponsors Gaastra Vandal Tabou

 www.gaastra.co.nz 

Contact Alexander

Event link; deepfried.tv

UPDATE. I suspect fanging around the harbour on some new Gaastra/Tabou kit is going to generate a mean thirst. A separate bar @ The Trust, Bureta Park is available for all Demo Day participants looking to engage in some; intelligent, post sailing product analysis,......and beer.

Big screen for dvd,s - sorted!

Please PM me via discoguy@deepfried.tv or txt for any further info.

discoguy 

From the discoguy archive - 1989 NZ Windsurf Slalom Nationals - Eastbourne, Wellington.

 

Mark, Neville and I rolled down to Wellington from Warkworth,(in my 'fully laden' HQ Belmont+camp-o-matic) to see if we could "race".

 

I had only been windsurfing for a year, so naturally I  targeted the Social Division. Mark and Neville were contesting in the Production Class on Windtoys Predators. 

The young fella did well, featuring in a heat win on the video,( the best I got was a 2 second cameo, rolling around 'solo' in the camp-o-matic).

The sailing?.........I dropped my rig tacking around the buoy in the first fleet race, and subsequently watched everyone else go around me,(managed to pull a few places back after I got going). Finished about 60th of 120 in the second course race, didn't drop a gybe,........was stoked!  As the racing went on my confidence built to  a point where I had a clear lead the final heat, lost sight of the last buoy in the swells, and blasted right past it,......Arse!........"Pour me another warm Kuhtze, mate!"

The 'Fully Committed' award went to some tall dude called Stephan. Competed with one sail, one board and  wandered around, sailed, (and partied) over the 3 days - in the same set of clothes,...Legend!