Cleaning out underneath the house the other day and finally came to terms with saying goodbye to my gear from 1986 . In the picture is a Bombora South Pacific (which weighs around 15kgs), a custom fibreglass board made by a local sailor Russel McCamley with 90degree rails the entire length of board, a Gaastra 5.8 Speed Slalom sail, a 4.5 North Slalom Spider (by D Ezzy), a plastic Multi-fin from Byron Bay with the mother of all chord widths and two very narrow tie-on booms.

Brought back many fond memories and made me realise I had lost 20 precious years that I had given the sport away.







Also found this press clipping from Dec 30 1986 of me sailing the custom slalom board and gaastra sail - the most carefree days of my life just after finishing school and before starting uni. Tried to defer uni so I could sail forever but alas my dreams were cut short.



Apologies if I have bored anyone to death with my reminiscing.

Great stuff Sausage, brings back lots of memories looking at that stuff.
Had one of those fins on an old raceboard, sigh

pierrec45 said...

Footstraps on the pink Bombora are made to sail port only ;)

Footstrap position doesn't really matter to Snags

You need to move house a bit more often Sausage
The only bit of kit I still have from the 80's is a Wild Winds sail bag (ex Jason Polakow) which I store a rolled up hammock in.

goldcoastmoz said...

Sausage

surely you could design an architectural masterpiece with all that old gear?

moz

Not a chance, have you seen Snags designs?

He couldn't design another box with all those curved booms

sausage said...

That's done it. You'll be SPORT from now on

Didn't you guys know that pink was it in 86.

PS Gaz, put that photo from GI up one more time and I'll run you down at Green next year

sboardcrazy said...

I was wondering what sort of weight the old 80's " shortboards ' were..thank god for the 7-8kg ones these days.. even they give me a hernia trying to put them on the car after a big session..

my 1991 windaction "combat" wave pro (guess about 85L) is 10kg

i still have sails and boards from 15 years ago and still use and enjoy them, at my level i dont see the advantage of the new stuff.