Job Opportunity: International Sales Manager

  Our company, Starboard, although small, is a world leader in several segments of the watersports goods market (windsurfing, standup paddling and kiteboarding) through several premium brands: Starboard, Severne, and Airush; it has a network of independent importers and retailers in 80 countries.   We are looking for an experienced sales manager, whose main responsibility…

The War On Plastics

  “It’s not as complicated as everyone seems to pretend it is…“ Melati (16 years) and Isabel (14 years) Weijsen have managed to ban the use of plastic bags on Bali. They and their Bye Bye Plastic Bags organization are demonstrating how all of us can be useful and stand for the oceans. Visit www.byebyeplasticbags.org.…

PWA Tenerife: Event Summary

Philip Köster and Iballa Moreno Take Title Race Control After Epic Competition For the 7th year in a row Tenerife delivered world class conditions to maintain its 100% record of gaining a result. After a slow first few days, El Médano more than made up for that with some of the best conditions we’ve ever…

PWA Fuerventura: Event Summary

Ten Days of Explosive Freestyle and Slalom Fuerteventura more than lived up to its reputation again as the 2017 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam – sponsored by René Egli – saw 10 days of 25-45 knot winds to provide an amazing natural arena for the freestyle and racing. Over the course of the event we saw…

Sarah-Quita wins 10th PWA Freestyle title

The final day of Freestyle at the 2017 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam produced one of the most exciting women’s freestyle finals in history as Maaike Huvermann pushed Sarah-Quita Offringa all the way in the second double elimination. However, the 19-year-old from Holland couldn’t quite do enough to prevent Offringa from winning as the Aruban continues…

Philip Koster wins PWA Gran Canaria

Pozo delivered the howling winds it is renowned for over the last 7 days with winds approaching 50 knots accompanied with small waves for the Gran Canaria Wind & Waves Festival. Despite the small waves, the action on offer was anything but small as the most talented wave sailors in the world produced a remarkable…

Philip Soltysiak – IWT Pistol River

Philip Soltysiak just sent us a report from his time in Oregon, where he joined the IWT Pistol River Wave Bash and finished third, behind fellow Starboard team rider Boujmaa Guilloul in first and Morgan Noireaux in second. Read more below:     It was my birthday 2 weeks ago and I celebrated by completing…