Learning to fine-tune slalom racing sails for speed windsurfing requires experience, patience and experimentation. In speed record challenges, all small changes in the sail setup have deep impacts in performance. Dutch riders at Ghosts of Speed have tips for you.
Downhaul is very important. Use the recommended settings with less half centimeter  … More
Andy “Bubble” Chambers is the 2012 UKWA 2012 Freestyle Tour champion, after securing a narrow victory at the last stage held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.
The star of the British Freestyle windsurfing season has been Oscar Carmichael, a 16-year-old sailor who pushed Andy “Bubble” Chambers until the last minute  … More
The 2012 RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championship is now underway. Penghu has an awesome reputation for howling wind but naturally the wind gods are somewhat contradictory at least they chose to be today. The fleets went out for a 1030hrs start as scheduled and had to wait in the starting area for a while whilst the gods decided where to stabilize the breeze… 10 knots.
Pawel Tarnowski [POL] came here to win his last world championships as a youth but has given himself a mountain to climb already. A 10th in the first race, he could just about live with  … More
The season long fight for the prestigious PWA World titles and heralded podium positions were not the only things that the sailors were battling it out for, as the pride of each of their respective countries was also at stake every time they entered the competition fray.
After ten grueling events, spanning the globe, the results have now been counted and verified and it is time to reveal which nation has come out on top across each of the three PWA disciplines of freestyle, slalom and wave, before unveiling which nation performed the best across all three of the aforementioned disciplines to claim the coveted 2012 PWA Nations Rankings crown  … More