Recent online shoping has me thinking... How can I keep my hard earned in house?
If buying two new boards, this amounts to a considerable turnover for a local operator. Not talking about buying a JP or F2 from xyz dealer. Sure these dealers are local, but they sell international products. I want to buy gear from the Australians who make the boards. I want to support the Australian businesses competing with the international brands. The guys who make the boards!!
Being a recreational sailor, I'm not going to notice the difference between 2009 & 2010 models.
Can an Australian company make a quality high performance board recognised globally?
Hang on a minute...... What about resale??????
If such equipment exists, will it hold value, or even sell on the 2nd hand market?
Or this asking too much?
Dan.
OES Australia is a South Australian company that I believe makes boards in Australia.
Checkout the Aussie made windsurfing products post
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=50076&SearchTerms=Aussie,made,windsurfing,products
Boards
OES
SSD
Manta
Dweller Designs
Nude
Riders
Blue Juice
All making nice customs in Aus (Apologies if I missed somebody)
Sails
Severne and KA, Australian owned and designed, made in China.
Booms and bases ect - Hydrodynamix
I think it is great to support these guy,s if possible, and that is the decision I have made, but it not as straightforward as that. There are also a great bunch of retailers and importers that need support as well, who,s profits stay here and who employ Australian Staff.
So what I am doing now is supporting the local custom builders by designing boards and getting them to build them for me.
I help out KA with design work, then all my other equiptment and accessories comes from local retailers.
Sort of trying to spead the Love!!! Bad joke.
but this way I am happy that I am supporting the local industry and australian jobs as well as I can.
are severne still aussie owned? i thought they might be owned by starboard, or they are in a pretty close partnership?
