1) Whoever started making boards that didn't use polyester resin and fibreglass cloth.
2) Whoever came up with the RDM - that's also a winner
Cheers
New school booms with narrow, straight arms. Why booms retained that silly bend from the One Design days is beyond me.. From memory it was Aeron?
Boards, for not being 270 long anymore..
DaKine- for the Primo footstrap.
My sail, for not being an Ezzy.
I think low aspect sails next, I look forward to rigging my 5m on a 375 luff.
Kauli and keith teboul for being the front runners in bringing multi fins boards to an awesome standard
Mike De Sciascio and Jason P for showing that Aussies could shape boards as well as Hawaiians and for stopping the "can opener" trend.
What about the person who invented the clamp-on boom, any idea who that was? To me, this was a major step forward in making the thingo you hold onto (when you're windsurfing!) much less floppy.
Also bolt-through fin boxes (tuttle & powerbox) compared to old school (though still in use) slotted US box which I could hardly ever get a fin to fit properly into without shim!
Assuming Larry Tuttle was the inventor of his namesake box, so who invented the powerbox?
