.......and here it is, a hollow epoxy composite limited edition hand made mistral competition in really good condition kindly donated to me by a guy who was cleaning out his grandfathers house on the gold coast.
The centreboard pivots and so does the skeg, the mast base is fully operational!
When i was a teenager selling windsurfers at a ships chandlery in brisbane on a hundred dollars a week in 1981, this was the board i could not afford, only brain surgeons or heirs to the kodak dynasty lapped them up.
I am humbled by its appearance and it now has a home for life, it is a thing of beauty and these mistral comps cruise like nothing you have ever cruised on before. i'll be doing a little resto work on it so i'll keep you all up to date. 
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I thought you were going to tell us you're eligible to receive the pension 
Have to bring that up to Burrum for an early morning cruise at high tide.
These were all the rage when i was learning late early 80s, great to see
one looking in such good condition.
I agree Greenleader, a thing of great beauty. Worth the wait.
I purchased a mistral M1 division 2 board a year ago, which I am still waiting to take out on the water. I was told there was only a handful ever brought in to Australia, and they cost $2000 or so twenty five years ago. It too, has a home for life with me.
Many people (windsurfing ones included) would look at classic boards such as this and send them straight to the tip. You have got a real gem there, and it is wonderful to see someone so excited by something with a centreboard.
Clarence
They were great boards to race and I'll bet you'll have a lot of fun with it now. Definitely worth preserving!
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Many people (windsurfing ones included) would look at classic boards such as this and send them straight to the tip.
+1
It is sweet-looking! Good on you for keeping it going. As a matter of interest, how much does it weigh?
(Having owned a couple of Bombora Tri-Fins in the 80's, I tried sailing one recently and found it completely unresponsive. Not at all how I remembered them. Memories make things seem better than they were)
Score! Looks mint for something built thirty years ago.
Getting a bit misty, 'cause I haven't heard the term 'skeg' since I cut my baby teeth on a one design many decades ago! Nostalgia is a drug!
So just what does a *pivoting* skeg/centreboard mean? (We used to call a centre-board a 'dagger board' for some reason)
Woo Hoo ! Maybe its just you and me Greenleader . I have one of the hollow versions too. I have an epoxy version as well as a few of the more common plastic skinned foam filled ones .
There must be a few lying around under houses or garage rafters .
Nice pickup !
awesome...
I just got off the water sailing my $1 ebay Div 1 Alpha, upgraded with a mint WarpSpeed 7.0 and alloy mast.
would really like to find an original Superlight.
congrats!
While my friend,son of a rich man had one... I was 12 years old lugging around a 21 kg wayler ypsi! I was a jealous kid... Mind you with a 5.4 and 3.7 on the same boom,I now appreciate what I have. He hasn't windsurfed since and I've had over 37 years of sailing in my blood.... That is an awesome board! Piece of history and I have 2 mistrals in my shed that I can't part with... You get what you pay for!
I learned to windsurf on a pond near the local uni, where I was doing my studies.
It was all 1-design racing, I was told from the late 70s to 1982.
Nice club, we'd all practice together and go to competitions in faraway places as a group - was fun.
Then much better pointing boards like the Mistral started to show up, then better and more expensive Mistrals -
as you said only dentists and doctors could afford changing planks everytime a new board was coming out.
Even the early Mistral people were complaining about the newer Mistral guys - they were "cheats".
Then D2's - Crit was the first one at the lake, etc.
The club could not adapt the rules, they tried to remain a single class,
but within a year the club had fallen apart, and that was the end of it.
I vaguely remember Friday night racing at Botany Bay went the same road, no?
It was the beginning of Tupperware sailing - by then I had a trailer like the others. 
Anyways, nice plank Greenlead. I did not remember that Mistral had a twist-in dual-hole uni like that.
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Nice !! It's not hollow though.
Rick, as I look through the ronstan bung at the back of the board at the void and I-beams inside the hollow hull and try to locate the hard object that is rattling from nose to stern I am wondering about your comment, especially since I sold a couple of these boards personally in the eighties.
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I purchased a mistral M1 division 2 board a year ago, which I am still waiting to take out on the water. I was told there was only a handful ever brought in to Australia, and they cost $2000 or so twenty five years ago. It too, has a home for life with me.
Yes Clarence, I had a mistral M1 back in the day and they were an awesome raceboard! They did tend to leak a bit and the Crit D2 was faster due to the rounded deck and porpoise nose that didn't bang into the chop upwind as much........ Still the best racer won on the day of the race.
Isn't that one of those daggers (center board), that you have to pull out, then put your arm thru the handle strap of it, and wear it dangling from your arm, on the down wind leg of a race?
I seem to remember those days of the dangling daggers.
nice score greenleader.
just in time for both the speed course and the race course at windfest 2015.
"plug......"
I have a Mistral Superlight that looks identical with the spring loaded rear fin and a retractable dagger board, yours appears to pull out instead.
The problem is the mast base connection, that plastic pin that drops into one of two holes on the board, mine pops out too easy. Get out to the middle of the bay and complete rig separation 
The safety plug/tether is useless as well, it just pulls out too.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I'm considering epoxying it permanently into the board but I don't really want to do this for obvious reasons.
for a minute there l thought you were having baby .nice mistral they don't make em like that anymore GOLDEN OLDY.
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I have a Mistral Superlight that looks identical with the spring loaded rear fin and a retractable dagger board, yours appears to pull out instead.
The problem is the mast base connection, that plastic pin that drops into one of two holes on the board, mine pops out too easy. Get out to the middle of the bay and complete rig separation The safety plug/tether is useless as well, it just pulls out too.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I'm considering epoxying it permanently into the board but I don't really want to do this for obvious reasons.
Take out the metal pins from the female plug hole and squeeze the 2 tips closer together, then replace. This should solve your problem.
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I agree Greenleader, a thing of great beauty. Worth the wait.
I purchased a mistral M1 division 2 board a year ago, which I am still waiting to take out on the water. I was told there was only a handful ever brought in to Australia, and they cost $2000 or so twenty five years ago. It too, has a home for life with me.
Many people (windsurfing ones included) would look at classic boards such as this and send them straight to the tip. You have got a real gem there, and it is wonderful to see someone so excited by something with a centreboard.
Clarence
Hello Clarence,
Time to bring your M1 back on the water...We are reviving Division 2s 
Please join us here :
www.facebook.com/groups/internationalopendivision2/
and here
www.facebook.com/groups/OpenDiv2/
See u all 
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I still have my Crit Div 2 sitting in the yard. It was a great board to sail.
Elbow...
Please join us here....D2s are back!
www.facebook.com/groups/OpenDiv2/
and here
www.facebook.com/groups/internationalopendivision2/
I started this thread with a couple of Australian guys a couple of years ago...
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Where-are-the-Div-2-boards/?page=2
Since then we grew the FB group...We are more than 800 D2 fans now, from everywhere in the world organizing regular regattas...
I'm starting a group in the US...I would love to see you guys starting the same
