This popped up on my marketplace feed.. there has been a run on nos sails lately but this add has everything including mast and boom. sails look mint..SA seller.
I am seeing similar ads locally for kiting gear. Gear that is so old that no one should use it but being sold as 'new' or 'almost new'. Sometimes I feel like replying to their ad telling them that they shouldn't bother selling it, but I am sure those people won't take that well.
In both cases its a shame if someone new to these sports buys it thinking it is current gear. I used to work with someone that windsurfed in the 80s and couldn't get it into his head that gear had changed so much by the 2000s. He insisted on using old boards and masts and couldn't accept that new masts and sails actually bend.
a lot of the guys at my local are sailing older gear. especially older boards.. something about ezzy sailors lol.
'the gear above would still work. I;m not gonna use it but hey I still have my 90's speed board in the shed. Let's acknowledge mint awesome gear from years ago..
older longer boards with modifications are at my local. they are all having fun fwiw.. glassing up centreboards, cutting off bits. and running them with delta fins.. it's complete opposite to what I'm on..
I'll grab a photo next session but one guy turned up with an absolute mint 90's board he grabbed for $20 at the local recycle world. and that's where they are shopping for gear. when I rock up to the beach with an $1800 sail I'll be honest I wonder..
Yeah agree. Nothing wrong with it. If you're skint, then it gets you on the water.
