Windsurfing A Way Of Life

With low season upon us here in Dahab, it is the perfect time for us to crack on with preparing our lovely center for the new season in spring, as well as get some much needed sailing done.

Few pics below of progress so far.

We all hope to see you in Dahab again soon.

Best Wishes and Happy Windsurfing.

Said and Family. Pics taken over the last couple of days.

I thought I would post this up for those of you that know Said and his family. They are all well and his children are growing fast :) mabrook bubba Said.

Well it seems after a string of fantastic results in the waves during 2006 Mistral has pulled out an amazing wave board for 2007. Below is a summary of the German Surf Magazine test article copy from the Mistral website.

Article from Mistral News

Mistral Beast Wave Board 2007

level: expert / wave

ranking:

• Radical Wave riding
• New School Jumping
• Extreme wind & wave conditions

Conditions: waves and high wind
Construction: Carbon-Kevlar sandwich
Shaper: Mark Nelson

Key features:

• Shorter in length and revised outline for new school skate style
• Totally revised bottom shape – new single to double concave hull (similar to modern surfboards) for increased wave riding performance
• Deck channels for increased strength
• Revised Swallow tail for aggressive turns
Nose chine on the bottom for water redirection, and control in radical maneuvers
• New Air Pod Footpads
• Lower Apex “Power” rail to improve initial bite at the start of the turn and extra grip during the turn
• New Customized Fin by Kai Hopf, now in G10

With the Beast 76 Mistral has developed another high-performance Waveboard. Based on the Worldcup Shapes from Nik Baker & the Brasilian Young Gun Marcilio Browne they have developed in co-operation with Mark Nelson the greatest Waveboard on the Market.

Great Acceleration, the board provides you with an ultimative kick. Once you push the edge when doing an bottom turn, it push you so deep into the wave, it feels like standing in a barrel ! There has never been a better waveboard on the market than the Beast 76.

Summary of the German SURF MAGAZINE: A Board which feels home in all kind of locations, either Klitmöller, Sunset Beach or Hookipa.

So no posts for a few days sorry about that been a bit short of time in the evenings. Here in Dahab we have had a few great days of wind you can see the stats here . Its pretty busy right now but with strong wind all day at the moment I have been getting the chance to go out and have some fun.

Yesturday and the day before managed to get out into the swells with my Beast 84 and a 5.0 Voodoo which was great fun and today I have been playing with the new Mistral Syncro 92 2007. This board is amazing I want one of my own but in the lite weight edition they now make which weighs in nearly 1kg less than the standard model. Having said that the standard model is not heavy either.

This board is great, sails really well. I have been using it with the straps set on the outside. The board is fast, feels exciting and is a carving machine. The new channels in the deck really work and make this board feel smaller than it is when carving. Today I took it out into the swells with a 5.3 North Voodoo for a couple of hours (day off today). The swells were small but I had a lot of fun riding them on this 92 Syncro. It turns hard when you want it to and is very controlable. I gave it a full thrashing upwind to see how it behaved and then a full thrashing downwind on both points of sail it was fun and fast especially the downwind run dropping off down the swells. The nose of the board did not bury and although it was gving me an adrenaline rush it was not difficult to keep everything under control.

Now anyone who has sailed here in Dahab will know the swells are very confused and bumpy so total comfort is not easy to acheive but I have become a total fan of this board.

Stats for the Mistral Syncro 92 2007

• 92 litres
• length 245
• width 59cm
• construction carbon sandwich
• rec sail size 4.5 - 6.2
• wave fin / Powerbox 27cm

Key Features

Double concave hull deck channels for increased strength, performance and comfortswallow tail for smoother more aggresive turnsnose chine on the bottom for water redirection and control in radicla manouversKai Hopf G10 FinAnyone who is looking for a board like this must try one it is a really goof fun exciting bit of kit that feels a lot more alive than the 2006 Syncro 90 and previous models.The 102 is also amazing and really good fun but i'll write you a little about that shortly. plus update you on Manolis testing of the Joker 102The only sad thing is that the swells are so far away from the beach that its difficult to get any action shots without the use of a boat. Anyway when it quietens down a bit will try to get the guys out there with the boat and my camera to get a few pics for you all to see. So for now you will all just have to live with some close up shots of the kit.Tonight its blowing like hell outside so we hope tomorrow will be windy again Inshallah.Happy sailing, have fun and maybe see you out here in the desert sometime.PS Sorry bout my poor photoshop skills at cutting the board pics out of the complete pictures they were in the fins doesn;t really have a rough back edge etc :-)