Blast from the past
May 26, 2008
Chris Thompson, one of the founders of LBWS, has a proud windsurfing history having been around in the beginning of a great sport and competing against the likes of legends such as Robby Naish and Phil McGain. Over the years Chris has sailed a plethora of boards and competed at a high level in both windsurfing and many dingy classes including the very competitive Laser Class. As well as being a talented sailor Chris is a great commentator on windsurfing and sailing in general. He has been writing on sailing and windsurfing in particular for more than 25 years. No doubt you would have seen some of his material on LBWS as well as his contributions on other forum under the name of CT249.
Cruising a longboard
October 20, 2007
The island and the lake have been there for 15 years or more…..”there” in that list of places I have to explore one day. But through all the shortboarding, the slalom and bump and jump, that “one day” never happened. The island and the lake were always too far downwind, or too far upwind, or too shallow for a slalom fin, or the wind was too light.
Wallace Lakes, NSW Australia
It wasn’t until my lake sailing met the longboard renaissance that I finally got to sail to the island and the lake. A gusty, patchy nor’westerly was bringing an early promise of spring. Onto the water, up on the rail, twelve foot of board slicing through the chop.I love the way a longboard poised on the rail seems to meet the water, sliding it gently apart rather than slapping it down like a shortboard does when it planes.