Triad Windsurfing
The Official Newsletter of the
Triad Windsurfing Club
July__ __________________________________________ ___ _2004
http://www.triadwindsurfing.com
What’s New –
IMPORTANT:
Our
Club Contacts
Club President – Charlie Prewett prewettcr@yahoo.com
Club Vice-President – David Brown davekrys@triad.rr.com
Newsletter Editor –
Mac Barnhardt
As always, we need pictures and articles from other club members for the newsletter and web site. Please send me anything windsurfing related…pictures, a trip you took, gear/equipment reviews, a great day you had sailing, etc. Send it to me at mbarnhardt@triad.rr.com
Club Treasurer/Secretary
– Keny Kirschstein keny@elsouth.com
Trip Coordinator – Debbie Wrenn iidbis@mindspring.com
Charlie Prewett
– Club President
Back in 97’ (boy that sounds ancient), when I first joined the club, the always congenial Hermann sat me down at his dinner table for a beverage and to write a brief bio introducing myself to the club. In the years since I’ve thought about his hospitality and sense of camaraderie, and am still amazed how it mirrors my contacts with ALL the club’s members I’ve met since then. But the bio also made me ponder why I windsurf in the first place, which for me, is that it is the perfect blend of thrills, physical challenge and hob knobbing (is that a word?) with other wind-loving folk.
So as club president for 2004 I look forward to contributing about this theme of “why do I windsurf” gleaned over the twelve or so years I’ve been windsurfing and maybe inspire each member to similarly contribute an example of what possibly has thrilled, whipped and inspired YOU. As for me, three come to mind,
Ah
yes…
Fighting the urge to panic when near the first time out I get
stuck in lily pads in an alligator and snake filled
Or the thrill of hanging on for dear life in a surprise thunderstorm, hitting what feels like the usual school-crossing speed, 25 or so – not fast till you really feel the wind pulling and tugging at your straps like some frothing monster - going WAY faster than ever… and the lightning, ah the lightning (nice touch mother nature) and knowing full well a spectacular crash is about to happen…
And finally to be out away from the city, under the stars where life has its own rhythm. Remembering how my wife Kelly wowed the crowd with her bacon-based clam chowder on a windy Emerald Isle evening. And how much we enjoyed meeting, laughing and hanging out with this lively crowd who watched the wind gauge like a stock ticker while fine-tuning Daiquiris and even tolerating my guitar playing…
Anyway, thanks to you ALL and hope to see you on the water soon!
Take Air,
Charlie Prewett
“Prez 2004”
- Equipment For
1) 7.8 Aerotech PowerLite
sail– Excellent Condition - $150
Call
Mark Pace 336-643-9428 or 336-210-9041 or email: mark.pace@att.net
2) 2000 7.5 Neil Pryde V-8 / Excellent condition / paid $640 new / selling for $250
Contact Jeff Shanklin 887-4928
3) Mistral Explosion 288, 130 lts., Good Condition, $200.00
Includes fin and footstraps.
Contact David Lee at
336-662-9646 or email dlee@compuconusa.com
4) 1990 Fanatic Ultracat (According to Jim, you won’t
believe the price! It comes with it’s own board bag, cool graphics, great
shape with no dings, and you’ll get a free beer!)
Contact Jim
Crawford at 336-969-6141 to check out the board
5) 98 Pro Tech Convertable 93lts GC board,
board bag, & fin $350
Elvestrom
210 Complete Kids Rig Board, Sail,
Mast, Boom & base $200
Well used
sails. All are in useable condition but have repairs. Take you pick $25 ea.
Gastra MW5
5.8 & 5.2
Ocean
Energy 4.1
Air Foil Air Wave 3.3
Contact Don Wrenn 869-6256 iidbis@mindspring.com
6) Fanatic Mega-Cat board; 250 litres flotation, in great shape, $350.00
North Sail; Infinity, 6.0 meters, good shape,
$55.00
North Sail; Spectro, 7.0 meters, good shape,
$75.00
Gastra Sail; 8.0 meters, like new, $50.00
Contact David Johnson, xantos@ols.net
, 727-5174 (day), 983-3606 (night)
7)1999 Neil Pryde Sails-
4.7NR (Like New)
$250
5.3MPR (Like New) $250
5.7MPR (Great Condition)
$225
6.5V8 (Good Condition)
$200
7.0V8 (Like New) $300
7.5V8 (Fair Condition) $150
1999
Neil Pryde Masts (Fiberspar)…
430CM
(55% carbon) $125
490CM
(55% carbon) $150
Call Keny Kirschtein
854-9057 or email keny@elsouth.net
8) F2 Ride 282 – great slalom free ride shortboard
in excellent condition, early planer, and very fast. Volume is 115 liters.
Board, Board Bag, straps & fin - $500
F2 Phoenix 340 –
great lake & coastal sound longboard, can pull up centerboard to sail like
a shortboard in heavier winds. Excellent condition – Board, Board Bag,
straps, and fin - $500
World Sails 5.6 sail $200
– This is a great sail for slalom, bump & jump, or waves. It has an
optional camber for those gusty days, has a lot of range, and is in excellent
condition.
Call Mac Barnhardt at
545-6355 or email mbarnhardt@triad.rr.com.
9) O'Brien Sensation
6.m sail, mast, boom
mid to late 80's model (complete package)
$175.00
Jean
Hyack (336)998-9898
10) Mistral Equipe board
Fanatic
Viper Funracer 340 board
Westwind
shortboard
Fiberglass
Mast
Weichart
Aluminum Mast
Powerex
490 30% Carbon Fiber Mast
Mast
Bag (holds 2)
Windsurfing
Misc
booms (2) and harness lines
Dakine
adjustbale harness line (brand new)
Sails
- Aerotech 7.0 (excellent
condition)
Duet
5.8 (good condition)
Windwing
5.3 race sail (good condition)
Ocean
Energy 5.7 (good condition)
5
assorted fins
Chinook
tall mast base with pad
Windsurfing
Generic
tall mast base
Seat
harness
Visual
Ed waist harness
Other
miscellaneous windsurfing items
Contact
Henry Smith at htsmith@intrstar.net
11) John Anderson has gear for sale. Check out the
following URL for more info:
http://home.nc.rr.com/windman/
If you have equipment for
sale that you want listed in the newsletter, send Mac Barnhardt the details via
email mbarnhardt@triad.rr.com.
Web
Site Profile – Your Local Windsurfing Shops
It’s high time to reacquaint everyone with their local windsurfing shops. “Local” for us isn’t so local since the closest shops are in the Outer Banks…5-6 hours drive away. However, the shops in the Outer Banks add a ton of value in many ways. If you go to the Outer Banks and visit the shops, you’ll see that you can:
- Try boards and sails before you buy them
- Demo and rent equipment
- You can get personal tutorials on how to properly rig your new sails
- Take lessons (this will help your sailing more than you know)
- They will ship it to you
- The staffs at these shops have a great deal of experience, set you up with the proper equipment, and take away the difficulty of getting the right parts to fit together (mast base and foot, extension, boom, harness and harness lines, etc). They can tell you what’s real, what’s practical, and what’s not necessary.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. You can’t get all this from a catalog. Support these shops because if they didn’t exist, we wouldn’t gain access to these benefits, experience, customer service, and knowledge. If a catalog has a better price, tell the shop…you never know what they might be able to do for you. But remember the extra value you get from these shops before you pay $20 less from a catalog. It’s worth it. See these web sites for more information on what they have to offer (in alphabetical order):
Fox Watersports - http://www.foxwatersports.com/
Ride Hatteras - http://www.ridehatteras.com/
SailWorld - http://www.sailworld.com/hatteras/index.html
Windsurfing Hatteras - http://www.windsurfinghatteras.com/
Ground Hog Day by Mac Barnhardt
What can I say? The Outer Banks trip in May (May 8th
– 15th) was awesome. We had wind every day (Rob Cornwell and I
sailed 7 days in a row), it was sunny every day, and temps were in the 70s
every day. Rob and myself were there all week. Mark Pace was there most of the
week. Jeff Clark stayed the first half of the week. Todd Morris and John Bryant
showed up late in the week. David Brown was staying just down the beach with
some friends from
After our first day of strong Northeast wind, it was southwest wind every day. We would wake up, see that the wind was calm in the morning, get in the hot tub, go to the shops, walk on the beach, go to the lighthouse, or read books. Then the wind would pick up after lunch and we would sail until dark every day. It was great sailing right from our house, leaving our sails rigged all week. Around Tuesday, I realized this was just like the movie, GroundHog Day. I felt like Bill Murray. It was like this Sunday through the following Friday. After we left on the following Saturday, David scored 20mph + winds all afternoon since his house was a Sunday to Sunday rental.
When we drove down on that first Saturday, we got mixed
forecasts of E and NE wind…thus concerns about where to sail since our
house launch in
After that first day, it was Ground Hog Day every
day…..warm southwest wind every afternoon, ranging between 12 – 25
mph. We sailed until after sunset most nights. We came off the water so late
one night, got in a hot tub session and beer, then found no one open for dinner
after
Following is a pictorial of our adventure…..Enjoy!
All pics by Mac Barnhardt, unless otherwise noted.