Talk:Windsurfing

message: It should be noted that "windsurfing" is the generally accepted spelling. The same goes for boardsailing.
Spelling gybe. is not how we spell it in Hawaii, or how i have ever heard anyone spell it. I believe it is spelt Jibe, not gybe.
193.118.251.61 14:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: And we _really_ need a more exciting picture! (Don't think I have any, will look).  Mat-C 17:50, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Perhaps we should mention that people go to windsurfing vacations, and list the most prominent locations. Alga 21:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vacation destinations 

message: This history was written by people with enmity toward Hoyle Schweitzer and thus is distorted and divorced from reality. I tried to correct it at one point, but the guards uncorrected it. While Chilvers and Darby may have created a version of a sailboard at one point, their efforts did nothing to advance the popularity of the sport. Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer collaborated on designing the Windsurfer, but it was Hoyle who took the risk and made the concept successful commercially. Jim didn’t want any part of the commercial development. It was Hoyle who developed components that could be mass-produced economically and set up licensees around the world who developed a school system that brought millions into the sport. The emphasis on who made the first or who thought of a mechanical universal joint is misplaced. Steve Jobs didn’t design the first computer, but he is remembered as the star who brought computers to the masses. Hoyle and his wife Diane should be remembered the same way.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dicklambsb (talk • contribs) 21:30, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Windsurfing has experienced a boom in the 1980s. Windsurfing became an Olympic sport in 1984, and a shortboard was invented around the same time. However, windsurfing was in a sharp decline in mid-1990s, as the equipment got specialized and hard to sail. Now the sport is experiencing a revival, as new beginner-friendly designs became readily available.
What revival? what beginner-friendly designs? RogerDulhunty (talk) 03:32, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: No mention of any indoor windsurfing, which is suprisingly popular...
I know they have a tournament at the London Boat show every year, and I think there is a big one in Germany - some links and info would be good? 
Incidentally - The London boat show (and the indoor windsurfing tournament) are held on the same dock where Peter Chilvers has setup his windsurfing and sailing centre - and lives today! So this should be added - I'll scratch around and see what I can find... I know there will be some good photos from the boat show (as bad as their indoor tourny is) but i've got *technical issues* with uploading photos - if i can post links in here - can someone update the page with the pics please?  212.158.239.172 21:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indoor Windsurfing? 

message: It appears the rigging instructions section has been taken from / adapted from instructions provided by a company. Perhaps I am wrong, but "Easy-Uphaul" sounds like a commercial product (attached to the rig to allow easier uphaul, maybe?) that would not apply to all rigs.
In either case, whether it is applicable to all rigs or not, the title of the section is wrong, as they are not rigging instructions, but more uphaul instructions.
:Good catch. Yes, the material was copied from a commercial website. I've removed it now. Cheers, -Will Beback 22:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rigging Instructions 

message: Uh oh!  I hastily reverted what might be a legitimate edit by .  The revert was based on the introduction which was an unencyclopedic introduction, vanity, apparent deletion of most of the text, and the editor's short history.  I'll leave it to those knowledgeable about the sport to reinstate valid sections.  — EncMstr 16:54, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  origin rewrite of 2006-11-4 

message: It would be great to have a short tutorial on rigging a wind surfer.
I just added this section.
Letsrig (talk) 18:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rigging 

message: c'mon that picture and commercial were pretty funnyTallicfan20 (talk) 04:49, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  could we get a picture of John Kerry? 

message: I know this would belong in the Spanish version, but it seems that something is wrong with it. The whole page goes black and you cannot access "edit this page" or discussion" or anything at all. Can someone look into what happened?
Gchick (talk) 16:57, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Version messed up 

message: Describing windsurfing as "the ultimate water sport" would seem to violate the neutrality policy. I rewrote the first sentence. ..edit.. If someone wants to improve that opening statement, feel free, but please save the hyperbole for sales brochures. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JGarrick (talk • contribs) 03:12, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral? I think not. 

message: I was told a yacht generated 4 horsepower per square metre of sail in a force 4 wind.
Given force 4 is a fairly wide range of wind speed and that horsepower is work/time, has anyone got a rule of thumb to calculate the horsepower of sail of a planing windsurfer per square metre of sail for a given Beaufort number?
92.26.27.7 (talk) 21:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horsepower 

message: "Learning to kite board is more like learning checkers."
"The average age of the windsurfer is around 45." J.Schmill (talk) 04:25, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  yikes 

message: I added some very brief descriptions for other sports to clarify things for people who are unfamiliar with them. However, as I have no understanding of any of these sports, I can't be sure I've got things right. Hope someone else can have a look.--A bit iffy (talk) 19:08, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Similar sports in 'See also' section

message: I took the liberty of restructuring and rewriting parts of the Technique section. The difference between sailing and planing is now more clear, I hope. I'm working on an excel sheet graph that shows the relation between rider weight, sail size and wind speed, when it comes to planing or not. --Tavernsenses (talk) 11:18, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Technique section

message: The reference to low pressure on the windward side of the fin causing water to boil is totally incorrect.
A fin's loss of lateral resistance (Spin Out) is caused when the low pressure area on the winward side of the powered up fin is allowed to draw in air or create a vacuum. It is the same as "cavitation" on an outboard engine's propeller.  A fin loses most of its lateral resistance when the water's laminar flow is disturbed. This is also similar to "stalling" an aircraft wing.
This problem can be almost totally avoided by:
1) Good sailing technique. 
2)Correct size of fin for sail size and conditions.
A Spin Out can often be recovered from by turning the board downwind to reinstate the laminar flow - just the same principle as putting an aircraft in a nose down attitude to recover from a stall.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.179.118.218 (talk) 21:08, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the comment about boiling water, made other edits, and compared the phenomenon with stalling and cavitation (with links) as you suggested.—LithiumFlash (talk) 15:32, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boiling water? Under Planing Conditions (strong winds, more than appr. 15 kts) 

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message: Dear Sirs,
I am very concerned that the photo in the Youth Windsurfing section of the Windsurfing article illustrates a very dangerous practice of learning to uphaul in a swimming pool.  I would appreciate it very much if you would choose to replace this photo with another "youth windsurfing" photo. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing#Youth_windsurfing
Thanks,
Bob  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.103.228.190 (talk) 05:41, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dangerous Photo - Youth Windsurfing 

message: Hello everyone, first of all I would like to let you know that I'm doing this change/addition for a homework. I have realized that the definition of a slalom board on this article is lacking, and therefore I would like to make the following change/addition:
Slalom boards: In the past, the key feature of slalom boards was merely speed, but it has been proven that maneuverability and ease of use are as important as speed in order to get you around the slalom course faster, and therefore modern slalom boards are shortboards aimed at top speed, maneuverability and ease of use. 
--Cooperpooper95 (talk) 20:12, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under the title "Boards and gear" subtitle "Slalom boards"  

message: Surely the purpose of the fin is to provide lateral resistance. The fin is at 90 degrees in planing conditions on flat water with the board level. Can someone explain the physics of its generation of "lift"?
It is noticeable that foiling boards for surfing, kitesurfing and windsurfing all require horizontal underwater surfaces to generate the required lift. A windsurfing fin is a vertical surface with no horizontal component, so how is lift produced?
(Speedboats, skim stones and other flat (ish) bottomed items can plane without a fin.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:4B20:600:45AB:EA65:5160:6DC6 (talk) 14:51, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The section referring to the action of the fin says that it generates lift. How is this possible when the fin is at 90 degrees to the board and the water surface?  

message: Onshore,Offshore,Side shore,Cross onshore,Cross offshore. Any winds that are suitable for or advised against windsurfing? Setenzatsu (talk) 18:42, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wind direction 

message: Generally the intro should be short readable summary of the body. Currently it seems to be in part a Personal Essay unrelated to anything in the body. A trimming is in order. - Snori (talk) 01:11, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro needs a trim 

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message: I am concerned that someone decided to remove every single reference to the international Windsurfing Tour (IWT) from this page. The IWT is a major international wave riding tour with many of the best weave riders on earth, and all of the Aloha Classic Champions from the last decade competing. It is the the major international windsurfing tour for the pure wave riders of the world. In 2019 it had USD $50,0000 prize money and 6 wave events across Japan, Chile, Peru, Mexico, the USA mainland and Hawaii. It generated over 20 million views across social media in 2019 for the sport of windsurfing, as verified by official facebook data. To delete one or two references, or to moderate some of the comments, to disagree on some details, all would have been within the range of normal in a public forum such as wikipedia, but to methodically delete every single reference to the IWT, large and small, is to attempt to deny basic reality and truth. This not a reasonable thing to do with any factual encyclopaedia source. I urge editors to reconsider these extreme actions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simeonglasson (talk • contribs) 22:36, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
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message: I think the current article has too much information about the original Windsurfer class and not enough on mainstream modern windsurfing. PhilKnight (talk) 10:55, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight 

message: I was surprised that Mike Waltz champion who taught me at Sprecelsville Maui Hawaii. Shame on you!!! 2600:1702:CC6:9650:716D:5037:3822:D001 (talk) 00:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike Waltz