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Anyone Regret getting rid of their windsurfing gear?

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Created by JonnyWindsurf > 9 months ago, 26 Jan 2022
JonnyWindsurf
WA, 47 posts
26 Jan 2022 11:38PM
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Between Covid, house renovations, a wife, and two kids going into their teens, free time has been a scarcity. I have been windsurfing a handful of times in the past 3 years. I am thinking about selling all the windsurf gear and just winging it going forward.

Anyone do this and regret it?

thedoor
2191 posts
27 Jan 2022 12:08AM
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I predict that you will windsurf again in the future, but by the time you do your current gear might be dated

I hung onto my late 90s windsurf gear during my 10 years kiting. It was still usable when I returned to windsurfing, but I quickly replaced it all. The advantage of having all my old **** was that when I got the WS bug again, I could dabble for free, maybe if I didn't have it I may have never returned.

My suggestion would be to keep a small selection of your favourite gear for good conditions, so that you can feed that WS bug when it returns

Sandman1221
2776 posts
27 Jan 2022 3:40AM
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I have avoided kiting and winging because of sharks, just did not like the thought of being in the water with no way to float, saw kiters do long in the water kite drags back to shore. Then a couple of weeks ago a single winger crashed and got bit across their thigh by a decent sized shark, they managed to get back up and wing back to shore. It sounded like the shark first went after the foil, and when the winger crashed bit them. Apparently, that was a fairly friendly shark species, if it had been a bull shark story could have had a very different ending. Florida is shark bite capital of the world, and that is an actual statistic reported by news organizations.

So I would keep that in mind before selling your windsurfing gear, you might get the windfoiling bug some time.

duzzi
991 posts
27 Jan 2022 5:12AM
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JonnyWindsurf said..
Between Covid, house renovations, a wife, and two kids going into their teens, free time has been a scarcity. I have been windsurfing a handful of times in the past 3 years. I am thinking about selling all the windsurf gear and just winging it going forward.

Anyone do this and regret it?



Winging is very big in the SF Bay Area, mostly, but not only, because Kiters can't believe that they can have fun with something that is not 20 yards long, and tries to kill them! Personally I will give another try to windfoil (I got all the equipment seating in the garage), but wingfoil has little interest for me. Very slow, limited range, dubious you can return home if the wind drops. It does sort of fit in a small car but I like my windsurfing better.



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