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Windsurf83
Joined: 24 May 2011 Posts: 84 Location: White Salmon, WA
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:34 pm Post subject: Got a strong mast?? |
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Good thing he chose to borrow a NoLimitz Sumo mast, the mast didn't break in this maneuver!!
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sl55
Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 112
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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I would be more worried about his leg. Is it Nolimitz too?
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20946
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Got a strong mast?? |
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NolimitzWind wrote: | Good thing he chose to borrow a NoLimitz Sumo mast, the mast didn't break in this maneuver!! |
Only the guys who fling themselves into the air into a headplant call it a maneuver. To everybody else it's a crash.
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keycocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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I used to do a move like that. I called it a forward. I broke a Neal Pryde and a fiberspar mast while failing to perfect it.
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9307
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:51 am Post subject: |
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NoLimitz might have to sponsor that kid. Looks like you might have saved him from a broken neck in that shallow water. Great way to sell your masts though. I could see that in one of your ads!
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nw30
Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 6485 Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:57 am Post subject: |
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"Borrowed"?
I'd take away his mooch pass.
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PeconicPuffin
Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:23 am Post subject: |
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A most excellent ad photo! (And I'm a Fiberspar/MS guy!)
Do you know what he was throwing when he stuck the mast?
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5330 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like a back loop.
Mast isn't stuck yet.
I"ve seen several cases where the mast impaled into the reef/rock, and the board was dangling 6' off the water, the waves just smacking the board when sets rolled thru. And the masts didn't break! SDM's from the early '80's.
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johnl
Joined: 05 Jun 1994 Posts: 1330 Location: Hood River OR
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: | NoLimitz might have to sponsor that kid. Looks like you might have saved him from a broken neck in that shallow water. Great way to sell your masts though. I could see that in one of your ads! |
KID?? I think Tyson Poor might be insulted by that! Although he is almost 1/2 my age
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LeeD
Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 1175
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Around '94, when Ty and Whit were too small to talk to shop employees, they'd come around with Dad to scrounge windsurfing parts. Dad was a real scrounger, similar to JonahLepak's dad (who also scrounged around for parts in the mid '80's).
I gave all sorts of unsellable parts to them, a half dozen boards, double that in sails (all old used, of course), booms, masts, and football fins.
TomLloyd hated me for that.
Luckily, Jonah, Ty, and Whit became PRO sailors.
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