I tested alot tore the bottom off a brand new HiFly Gun after a massive jump at Henley Beach S.A.:(Had a Bic Rock n Roll) for light wind days was fun at seaford.
Windsurfer with teak booms, wooden uni, wooden centreboard, 1978. I got my own one that winter.
A couple of years later, I read the piece in Windsurf magazine about Mike Waltze and the first the sinker waveboard; almost the first short board. I found a surfboard on a cleanup pile, glassed in a hole for the wooden T piece from my Windsurfer rig, stuck in some seatbelt footstraps, and went sailing....for about four feet, maximum. Then I got a Bombora mk 1, which was an original Windsurfer with straps, scoop and the back cut off.
I still have two copies of that mag, sitting in the garage with my ex Robby Naish custom boards from the early '80s.
Select to expand quoteChris 249 said..
Windsurfer with teak booms, wooden uni, wooden centreboard,
+1 !
No forests left now.
I got mine in 1979, Adelaide and followed up with a Bombora Mk 1 as well. Primitive stuff and scary when jumping....being attached by your feet to something that weighed about the same as a grand piano!
Ah yes. Those were the days. But you tell these young people nowadays.......zzzzzzzz
Windsurfer OD with aluminium boom and fiberglass gentre board you hung over your shoulder when planning. It was a great board to learn on. Easy to up haul, steer and surprisingly easy to get up on plane - mind you I weighed 75kgs back in those days. Sailed it exclusively for 2 years before I got my first polyester resin wave board, a Wind Action double concave swallow tail tri fin.
The first production board I road on was the first windsurfer board I learned on. It was a TC Beacher, a huge thing that was good for learning.
the first production l rode was a Stryrotech 272 freeride .still got it because it cost a lot back in 1998 brought from a guy called ian who owed a shop in perth.
So those whose first production board you rode on was a fairly small production board, what sort of board did you learn to windsurf on?
Select to expand quoteMobydisc said...
So those whose first production board you rode on was a fairly small production board, what sort of board did you learn to windsurf on?
l learnt on a big bombora which l brought of a windsurfing school grew out of that within half a season.
Yeah sorry, I learnt on a Dolphin Flyer, but this guy one day had a miniature twin hull ,scaled down hobbie cat board it was awesome, it would come up on one hull in 8 knots :) And tacking and gybing you couldn't really stuff up hmm?Better get one for (Sup Windsurf )school 
