I have given up on shortboarding and I am planning to go back to longboarding. I had a very good deal on E-Bay for an old Neil Pryde Vitesse 6.5 sail.( $ 50), brand new, still in the package, with the warranty and instructions. Looks very cool! It must be from the 80’s or 90’s! The luff is 470 cm and, surprisingly, it goes with a very wide boom ( 240 cm)
I’d like to rig it on my current mast which is a 460 cm constant curve mast( Gun Sails 55% carbon), but when I tried it inside the luff pocket, it does not bend as easily as with the other newer sails I have. Actually, it is very hard to even start DH manually and there is a deep vertical crease from top to bottom of the sail.
I don’t know if it is because it requires a flextop mast, does it? I’d be surprised, though, because in those days most longboards took stiff aluminum or fiberglas masts and I don’t think that windsurfing knew all the niceties of modern technology .
Perhaps the problem is that I didn’t do the complete rigging as I would do on the beach(we are 20 below here!): I only slid the mast inside, but I didn’t attach the boom because there is no room inside my house.
If anybody out there is old enough to know this sail, I'd appreciate his/her comments.
Thanks
Francone
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Select to expand quoteFrancone said..
I have given up on shortboarding and I am planning to go back to longboarding.
i thought francone had see the light for a sec.
Select to expand quoteCobra said..Francone said..
I have given up on shortboarding and I am planning to go back to longboarding.
i thought francone had see the light for a sec.
Gamma rays are part of the light spectrum, too, but they are nefarious..
I did see the light, in fact, but one of a different frequency and better suited to the local conditions here:an inland lake and very light winds in summer( about 10-12 knts). No question of planing here . If you can, wonderful! But other people by choice or necessity may enjoy other styles of sailing, like longboarding and sub-planing..
It is unfortunate that I should have come to realize only now that all the money I spent for my equipment over the years is wasted :all the sails I have ( and the boards manufactured to day) are designed strictly for planing and they are a piece of c..for subplaning in light winds, unless you rig ridiculously large sails and/or you weigh 60 kg.. or the winds are above 15 knts.
Older sails and boards may be enjoyed by more people than we think, if only they could get off the hype created by manufacturers who converted the masses to believe that ...there is no life before ( or after) planing.
Francone
Hey Francone
Are you from Europe? Or perhaps Germany?
If so, perhaps, you might have got the wrong sport???
Surfing ja? You might do it with a sail on the lakes over there....
In Australia it's a bit different!
Select to expand quoteHausey said..
Hey Francone
Are you from Europe? Or perhaps Germany?
If so, perhaps, you might have got the wrong sport???
Surfing ja? You might do it with a sail on the lakes over there....
In Australia it's a bit different!
I want to believe that you were joking when you said that windsurfing is perhaps the wrong sport for a European (!?!?) for I believe that nobody who is in his wits would ever think that Australia is the only country having access to the sea, warm waters and good windsurfing.…In fact, Europe is surrounded by seas, too : the balmy Mediterranean in southern Europe has some of the best windsurfing spots in the world and there are inland lakes, too, like beautiful Lake of Garda in Italy, which are a heaven for windsurfers.. Perhaps I was wrong in assuming that everybody knows all this.
For one thing, though, you were right : I am originally from Europe,( not German, though,) even though I have been living in Canada for a long time. Here too, from the Pacific Ocean West coast to the Eastern Atlantic coast, we have beautiful windsurfing spots, including inland lakes like the gorgeous Great Lakes or other local lakes. The problems are the winters! Yes , from this point of view, I understand you pride : God has blessed Australia for her windsurfing, but you are not the only ones…When the waters are under 2 feet of ice, like now, we go skiing or sledding pr ice-skating ,which is just as fun. Some even go windsurfing on the ice...
Francone
I don't know why francone but I always read you post out loud with a French accent .
or you're just a frank that loves pulling Cones.
got any pics of your quiver,,,or is it quiver'a
Select to expand quoteCobra said..
I don't know why francone but I always read you post out loud with a French accent .
or you're just a frank that loves pulling Cones.
got any pics of your quiver,,,or is it quiver'a
For one thing I am not French, far from it. But French is one of the many languages I am fluent with.
Just curious, though: what do you mean by pulling Cones? I am not familiar with this idiom ( or slang?), whatever garden variety of English it belongs to.
( I exempt you from an explanation, though, should more explicitness violate the ..forum rules..)
Francone
Select to expand quoteFrancone said..Cobra said..
I don't know why francone but I always read you post out loud with a French accent .
or you're just a frank that loves pulling Cones.
got any pics of your quiver,,,or is it quiver'a
For one thing I am not French, far from it. But French is one of the many languages I am fluent with.
Just curious, though: what do you mean by pulling Cones? I am not familiar with this idiom ( or slang?), whatever garden variety of English it belongs to.
( I exempt you from an explanation, though, should more explicitness violate the ..forum rules..)
Francone
Rowdy Queensland local pulling a cone
well I'll be farked if I know what this caper is all about geez get a farken Mango up yaaaaaaaa 
Right on, ctngoodvibes! I totally agree with you . This a bizarre thread indeed! We seem to have a few jesters on this thread who seem more interested in exhibiting a doubtful sense of humour than in providing intelligent answers to those they don't agree with ( or to whom they are unable to answer, I suspect, because of their limited English vocabulary not going beyond the letter " c" of CONE)
Francone
