At Starboard we are extremely excited to share the news that after the Sea Trials at Lake Garda, our Olympic Tender proposal the iQFoil has been officially recommended by the Paris 2024 Windsurfer Evaluation Working Party of World Sailing. To quickly find out more about the details of our Olympic proposal you can watch our explanatory video here. If…
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The World Cup in Sylt (Germany) just ended and our team sailed fantastic in freestyle, wave and foil. Below you can read some comments from some of our team riders about their own experiences. The wave sailors were sailing on UltraKode´s, the freestylers on the Ignite´s and the foilers on the Foil 177 boards, powered…
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Max Hochgrassl is a 20-year-old windsurfer from Tarifa in Spain. He impressed us with his sailing when we saw him in Pozo last summer. We took a quick word with the Spanish-German boy who just joined the Starboard Dream Team. He is windsurfing as much as possible and at the same time studying a Pilot…
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Being Bjorn Dunkerbeck´s son, Liam Dunkerbeck grew up on a board. He loves wave windsurfing and improved a lot this year. The 15-year-old boy talks about his dream of becoming World Champion one day. Board: http://windsurf.star-board.com/products/ultrakode/
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Join the Starboard Windsurf design team???? The Starboard Windsurfing design team is looking for a talented graphic designer with strong artistic vision and photography skills to join the team in delivering world class windsurfing equipment. The role includes: 1. Concept graphic design work (for boards, website, and catalog) – this task requires Adobe Illustrator,…
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Text: Florian Jung Photos: Pierre Bouras Imagine a world without the ocean? We, as surfers wouldn’t have waves to ride, that’s for sure! But apart from that, there wouldn’t be any life on this planet. I have been spending countless hours in the ocean. It’s a place of joy, rejuvenation, and excitement. Being a professional…
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Can Starboard´s Chief Innovator Svein Rasmussen destroy the new START board with the RHINO CONSTRUCTION? RHINO CONSTRUCTION – AS TOUGH AS IT GETS The Start´s are built in one construction with one mission in mind: to make them as durable as possible for schools and windsurf centers. The entire board is wrapped in a…
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Nicolas Huguet is an Olympic sailing coach, based in Marseille in France – The city of Mistral Wind! He has been following his windsurfing passion for more than 30 years. Read the interview we did with him below about his life as a windsurfer, and find out why he likes to race on the Phantom Raceboard.…
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World Sailing Receives Windsurf Community Feedback Following the Paris 2024 Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer invitation, World Sailing received seven tenders by on the 26th of July from Class Associations and Manufacturers. Tenders have been received from the following Classes / Manufacturers: RS:X, Neil Pryde – Non foiling one design Glide, Glide Class – Non foiling…
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Jaeger Stone finally won his first world cup on tour, having come so close on a couple of previous occasions. The Australian laid down his highest scoring heat in the winners’ final – 23.75 points – which was the second highest of the event to deservedly claim his first win on the world tour. That…
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