Paid $35 each (yes I know $35 too much) for a couple of old tyronseas just over a year ago to teach my kids on, they preferred them to the wider shorter boards said they go faster. They have been doing ok considering we don't get out much.
They have been using an ezzy kids rig and a Gaastra 3.4 maverick. The 3 of us were out sailing around a few weeks ago, boys on tyronseas and me on jp sup with a 4.2 ka wave sail, they blew me away upwind.
Old boards are ok for teaching kids, but beware if a big person (aka dad) takes them out in stronger winds, bigger sail and chop.
They break.
in half.
BTW. is that Polystyrene or Polurethane foam inside? Colour looks like urethane.....
Yeah, I had a old original windsurf board break at that same spot
Still got $10 for the fin
Select to expand quotesailquik said..
BTW. is that Polystyrene or Polurethane foam inside? Colour looks like urethane.....
yep urethane and the brown stuff is sand not water damage.
there was a very loud cracking sound about 300 m off the beach, had to sort of body drag back in
Hey remember , the lightbulb moment of the first two piece mast came when someone broke one and chucked it into the car .
mmmmm ?
Hard to believe when we were growing up in Adelaide in the 80's that was the board we all wanted to have as well as a Tiga. RIP another piece of history
u fat bastard , replace it with a carbon raceboard or your son will think you are a miserable sod
ps i know were you can get one
Select to expand quotegrich62 said..
u fat bastard , replace it with a carbon raceboard or your son will think you are a miserable sod
ps i know were you can get one
that sounds great, wrap it up n send it down and I won't charge u for parking yr van in my driveway next time yr down
Select to expand quotewaynos said..
Hard to believe when we were growing up in Adelaide in the 80's that was the board we all wanted to have as well as a Tiga. RIP another piece of history
I still have another one, plus a recently acquired f2 comet slalom (the one with a centre board) and mistral Malibu for the kids.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/oxenford/surfing/-windsurfer/1207498749
Maybe replace the Tyronsea with a Hifly Race.
Your fin would be useful in that board.
Select to expand quotegrich62 said..
u fat bastard , replace it with a carbon raceboard
ps i know were you can get one
Lungs a 'fat bastard' ? bahahaha
Hope Grich is talkin about his Speed 250 mate. Id sell one of mine but cant choose which one.
I found this photo in an old club newsletter from almost 20 years ago. Some fellow at the birth of the wide board era chopped off the back of an F2 Lightning for a home-made wide board. The centerboard was the fin.
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Its a sign
go shorter and wider
As he said in the first post, his kids preferred the longboard to the short wide boards because the longboards went faster.
It's just simple physics that while short and wide is great once planing, they are slower until they get over the hump and that's not easy with little rigs.
