Who's got the oldest still in use rig?

[noshuzbluz]

[GURGLETROUSERS]

Thank you sir, but I'm sure there are many more.

Would like to hear their thoughts on performing.

[outcast]

Is this thread about who has the oldest rig?, or who is the oldest rigger?

I can't remember.

[outcast]

This guy can tell you what it's like to be old and on the water:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OYrPoiNGA

I really don't know if he is ripping, or falling apart. I do hope to find out personally, and if some young whipper-snapper gives me any grief, I guess I would be mature enough not to give a shit

[noshuzbluz]

[noshuzbluz]

[isobars]

[RBee]

I am ...errr, umm, a VERY late starter.
I think I've said in other threads that I have this Budweiser promo BIC board and 5.7 sail that we played around with some time in the early 90s (probably under the influence of water and other liquids), then stowed it in the rafters at a lake club and went back to water-skiiing.
It was forgotten until last year, when I started to use it as a SUP - with a double ended kayak paddle.
This year I tried to sail it, the sail had not been eaten by vermin or maggots, the mast base was missing but I got a replacement for that.

It will take a while, my balance and coordination may not be what they used to be, my reflexes are more "dampened", which seems to be a good thing in most other things that I do (or in how I now do them) I am less given to over-reacting with sudden weight shifts, that sort of thing.

I got a decent SUP this year too (with a REAL paddle) and I'm seriously considering a very small sail for that, just to putz around in deliberate displacement mode and help others join in the fun of the basics.

Wild winds and ocean swells ?
Maybe, if I live long enough to get good enough to get out in it (-:

[GURGLETROUSERS]

It's not surprising that some recreational windsurfers are content with older gear. In recalling good sessions it's not the board and rig that figure as much as what was actually achieved. That's especially true with journeys.

Windsurfers were no less enthusiastic or happy in the 80's and 90's, and they didn't obsess so much over their gear. Those who've been in windsurfing for years, long ago reached a performance plateau with little realistic hope of massive improvements. To hell with all the marketing hype and sticking box loads of fins in boards to take us to 'the next level'.

If only we could bring back the fun semi competitive club scene which used to exist before the gear twerps bought their way to success, and killed it all off.

[DanWeiss]