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"Vintage Sail Windsurfing" Oldest sail on record?

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Created by MikeyS > 9 months ago, 22 Dec 2015
MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
22 Dec 2015 5:33PM
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No time to read whether this is in breach of Seabreeze guidelines. Sorry if it is.

Less than 5 hours to carbon date this interesting specimen, which might even pre-date Hoyle and Schweitzer by about a century.

Windsurfing historians, act quickly.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262187945815

choco
SA, 4175 posts
22 Dec 2015 5:24PM
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that's a window blind

ka43
NSW, 3091 posts
22 Dec 2015 7:20PM
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Seriously???
Choc's spot on.

barbarian
NSW, 218 posts
22 Dec 2015 7:34PM
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it looks priceless... or if not, it looks without value.

PeterHazael
QLD, 50 posts
22 Dec 2015 7:30PM
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I wonder if the Romans used it

RPM
WA, 1549 posts
22 Dec 2015 6:12PM
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Looks like waveslaves nappy from way back when fanny was actually a girls name...

lungs
QLD, 492 posts
22 Dec 2015 8:18PM
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I just asked them if they have any documentation as to its authenticity. and if they have the board it came from

jusavina
QLD, 1490 posts
22 Dec 2015 8:40PM
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Select to expand quote
choco said..
that's a window blind


Isn't it a Kitesurfing sail?

da vecta
QLD, 2515 posts
22 Dec 2015 8:55PM
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With a bit more downhaul it'll come up a treat.

Carantoc
WA, 7176 posts
22 Dec 2015 7:16PM
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"3 timber inserts, 2 missing"

Sounds like that is not from the past but a sail of the future.

2017 : North introduce the one batten sail, convertible to a three batten foil with the addition of two paulownia inserts. Ride it as a single for looseness and quick response or as a triple for stability in down the line conditions. Borg Urgenenson, European champion, quoted " the lightest and most powerful sail I have ever used, so much better than the 2016 edition"

Sparky
WA, 1122 posts
22 Dec 2015 7:47PM
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A blind man could see what that is.

MikeyS
VIC, 1509 posts
22 Dec 2015 11:13PM
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choco said..
that's a window blind



Yeah, well I bet you don't believe in Santa Clause either. Cynic!

Maybe I should have saved it for a caption comp.

Bondalucci
VIC, 1579 posts
23 Dec 2015 12:41AM
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That's ebay for ya.
.....at least the guy was only asking $29.

This one however, is on our own site and perhaps a little optimistic....

www.seabreeze.com.au/Classifieds/Windsurfing-Sails/~tp7dy/Neil-Pryde-Twin-Cam-Wave-Slalom-45-45-metre.aspx?search=P6K$tsb2rZrARE!Q6m0Zxw==




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