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Windsurfing includes speed sailing... Though windsurfing is possible in winds from near 0 to 50... this apparatus is remarkably similar to windsurfing equipment in use today... Windsurfing International created the Windsurfer as a... Later Windsurfing International produced other development board sails... Windsurfing International ceased operations... the popularization of windsurfing would not have taken place without the efforts of Schweitzer... Windsurfing led to the development of scoring programs on early portable computers... Because Windsurfing regattas were drawing a large number of competitors at remote locations... Windsurfing International sponsored the development of software running on portable computers to score regattas... The boom of the 1980s led windsurfing to be recognized as an Olympic sport in... While windsurfing is possible under a wide range of wind conditions... Windsurfing and kitesurfing on the Columbia River at Hood River... Windsurfing and kitesurfing on the Columbia River at Hood River... Modern windsurfing boards can be classified into these categories... Windsurfing in the late evening on a longboard at Sandbanks in the 1980s... Windsurfing in the late evening on a longboard at Sandbanks in the 1980s... Windsurfing in the late evening on a longboard at... A windsurfing sail is tensioned at two points... Indoor windsurfing competitions are held... Permanent indoor windsurfing facilities are being constructed around the globe including Germany... Formula is now a class of windsurfing boards controlled by the... one of the first windsurfing champions to gain long... winner first Olympic windsurfing contest in 1984... Children as young as 4 can start windsurfing using a lightweight rig... World Windsurfing and Kitesurfing Directory...

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A windsurfer tilts the rig and carves the board to perform a planing jibe (downwind turn) close to shore at Maui, Hawaii. | | jibe | Maui | Hawaii | Robby Naish competing in a wave sailing event at Sylt, Germany. | | Robby Naish | Sylt | surface water sport | sailboat | mast | sailing | surfing | skateboarding | snowboarding | waterskiing | wakeboarding | sailboat | Jaws | Maui | tow-in surfing | knots | A windsurfer using a slalom board to perform a small jump. | | Illustration from US Patent 3,487,800, issued to inventors Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer on January 6, 1970. | | 1968 | RAND Corporation | 1970 | 1968 | USPTO | 1973 | wishbone booms | one-design | one-design | Laser | Hobie Cat | 1973 | Peter Chilvers | Hayling Island | Inventive step and non-obviousness | 1983 | Newman Darby | 1965 | Popular Science | 1964 | sailboards | 1987 | 1983 | 1946 | 1949 | 1984 | daggerboard | planing | planing | knots | Windsurfing and kitesurfing on the Columbia River at Hood River, Oregon. | | kitesurfing | Columbia River | Hood River, Oregon | Formula Windsurfing | surfing | daggerboard | Windsurfing in the late evening on a longboard at Sandbanks in the 1980s (Poole Harbour, England). | | Sandbanks | Poole Harbour | polyethylene | PVC | glass-reinforced epoxy | expanded polystyrene | carbon fiber | kevlar | fiberglass | epoxy | plywood | thermoplastics | sail | polyester | mylar | kevlar | camber | battens | aerofoil | battens | The windsurfer in the foreground is using a camber induced sail and is fully planing using the footstraps, while the other is using a rotational sail and is not planing. | | leeward | luff | leech | tack | boom | clew | pulleys | grommet | marquee | slalom | Harness | Joint | Personal flotation device | Slalom at the 2005 national championship at the Columbia River Gorge. | | Columbia River Gorge | daggerboards | Olympic Games | Neil Pryde RS:X | 2008 Summer Olympics | Formula racer in San Francisco Bay. | | San Francisco Bay | Formula windsurfing | International Sailing Federation | fin | beam reach | jibed | front loop | French | Antoine Albeau | the Saintes Maries de la Mer Canal | Ricardo Campello | Spock (windsurfing) | Flaka | Wave jumping wipeout. While attempting a forward loop in storm conditions off the coast of Cantabria, Spain, a windsurfer gets catapulted into a high double flip. | | Cantabria | Wave sailing at Ho'okipa Beach Park, North Shore Maui, Hawaii, a location for  international wave competitions. | | Ho'okipa Beach Park | Hawaii | Robby Naish | Bjorn Dunkerbeck | Stephan van den Berg | spock | A child practices uphauling a lightweight rig in a swimming pool | | mast | boom | Bic | Land sailing | Land windsurfing | Surfing | Wakeboarding | Water skiing | Kite surfing | | Wiktionary | Wikimedia Commons | Categories | Windsurfing | Sailboat types |
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