The Test Team of the Windsurf Magazine conducted an ultimate test of the Freewave boards in size of 95 liters. Boards in this category have it all from bump and jump to freeride speed. Among them was also our Starboard Kode 95L. A 95L freewave board plays a significant role in the journey of many…
The new Olympic sport turning heads on and off the water. In less than 100 days, you can expect fast-paced action coming from Marseille Marina. But for iQFOiL, it doesn’t stop there. The new Olympic class is also leading the sporting world with its innovative approach to environmental action. What is iQFOiL? iQFOiL is the…
We are super excited to welcome a new freestyler on the Starboard Dream Team: Meiky Wieczorek. Meiky is from Munich, Germany and he is currently living at Lago di Garda. He has been freestyling for more than 15 years and he is pushing the limits regardless of the temperature, conditions and weather. During the winter…
Want to win a Starboard Ultra? We’re teaming up with Starboard Germany for an awesome giveaway on our Instagram! All you have to do is follow a few simple steps under the official video post. Entering is super easy. Just head over to our Instagram profile, find the giveaway video, and follow the steps. Tag…
We give you 5 main reasons why you should get a Starboard inflatable windsurf board. An inflatable board has many advantages to a hard board, especially when more people will use it. Above all, it provides variety in different conditions and activities for the whole family and friends. This makes the inflatable board a smart…
The second stop of the 2024 unified IWT and PWA Wave Tour took place from the 1st to the 12th of April in Matanzas, Chile. The conditions couldn’t be better and we witnessed a proper world-class wave action. Our young riders were absolutely unstoppable and reached inspiring results. Our Dream Team rider Liam Dunkerbeck was…
The fourth edition of Camp Bela Yen, meaning “full throttle” in Papiamento, took place last week in Aruba. Our Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita and Oda helped to organize an unforgettable water sports experience for 19 kids in Aruba. This camp aims to teach the basics of windsurfing and other water sports to children while showing…
In its ongoing commitment to protect the very playground that makes freestyle windsurfing possible, the Freestyle Pro Tour is excited to announce it will be planting 1000 mangroves to offset the entire 2023 season 4 times over. Together with sustainability partner Starboard, the FPT crew is working hard year-round to calculate and reduce all CO2…
The first stop of the unified PWA and IWT 2024 Tour took place at Omaezaki, Japan between the 19th and the 25th of February. We could see challenging conditions and the top wave riders of the world competing for the first World Cup Title of the year. In addition, many rising stars from the local…
Our Dream Team rider Oda Johanne is currently in Aruba, where she is training for the upcoming events. This warm paradise offers a perfect place for freestyle training. A few days ago, stronger winds hit the island and Oda had a killer session. Check out the whole video packed with action and freestyle moves. Oda…
We’re excited to welcome Principe Baldini to our Starboard Dream Team! Living in the south of France, the Prince of Speed finds his home spot at Plage du Rouet, La Palme. His passion lies in speed windsurfing, where he’s showing amazing dedication and power. He holds some impressive achievements already under his belt, including the…
The first stop of the Freestyle Pro Tour 2024 took place in warm Cape Town. The event consisted of 2 parts: a single elimination on the Rietvlei Lake on the flat water and a double elimination in the waves at the Paternoster. Our Dream Team rider Lennart Neubauer entered the 2024 battle for the European…
Lorenzo from WindCam took our 2024 Starboard Ultra and put it through proper testing. He was riding the Starboard Ultra in different conditions at the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian Sea. From easy to challenging conditions Lorenzo is promising only superlatives about this all-around wave board. As he is saying in the article, he is a regular…
In the world of windsurfing, safety and prevention of injuries are still topics that don’t get a lot of attention. Almost all our Starboard Dream Team riders have an unpleasant experience of overcoming an injury. An injury can significantly complicate your season even if you are not a professional athlete. Therefore we would like to…
At the beginning of 2024, we celebrate an amazing achievement. Starboard won the 2023 PWA Constructors’ Title in all the categories: Slalom, Wave and Freestyle. This achievement reflects the hard work of our Dream Team riders and the whole Starboard Crew. In 2011 was the last time that we saw a brand win all three…
Many windsurfers escape the cold European winter to warmer destinations around the world. Some windsurfers conquer the cold at home and windsurf in freezing temperatures. One of them is our Starboard rider Mathias Vingaard from Denmark. Mathias knows no limits and hits the water despite freezing temperatures to practice his freestyle moves. His commitment and…
We are excited to celebrate the victory of our freestyle machine Starboard iGnite at the 2023 Freestyle Pro Tour Board Construction rankings. The iGnite was present on many podium places throughout the 2023 FPT Tour. At the last stop of the Tour at Brouwersdam, we crowned the Freestyle European Champion Lennart Neubauer and the European…
The 3rd Episode of YLEM is out, and it’s an absolute banger! Follow the incredible journey of our Starboard wave rider, Antoine Martin, during his time in Hawaii for the Aloha Classic 2023. In this episode, you will experience skill, determination, and triumph in windsurfing. Antoine shows his exceptional wave-riding skills on his Hyper, navigating…
Our rising Starboard talent, John John Vanderick from Belgium, celebrates an extraordinary achievement at the young age of 13. He secured victory in the 2023 Dunkerbeck Speed Challenge within his age category. John John was riding the new Starboard iSonic Speed 45, showing exceptional skills and hitting an impressive speed of 38.75 knots in VMax. He…
Gear up for a unique windsurfing wave clinic in Matanzas, Chile with our Starboard rider Federico Morisio! The clinic takes place from the 5th to the 14th of January 2024. This is your chance to learn from the best and elevate your windsurfing skills like never before. In addition, discover the secrets of the waves…
Maarten Molenaar is a Starboard rider, professional filmmaker, Freestyle Pro Tour Manager but above all a freestyler. Pasko – The Magic Move film is not only about landing a new move, which can be a difficult journey itself. The name Pasko comes after a very famous windsurfer and filmmaker André Paskowski. He died 10 years…
Young windsurfing talents can be very inspiring for other kids to try windsurfing and join an amazing community. Martín Medina, a 12-year-old windsurfer from Spain, is a young ripper who is already joining competition events on the Olympic Class iQFOiL. Windsurfing runs in Medina’s family and we asked Martín about his beginnings, competition and what…
What an ending to the Slalom World Tour! The final PWA Slalom event took place in Japan at Tsukuihama Beach in Yokosuka City. Our Starboard Slalom riders Blanca Alabau and Matteo Iachino claimed the World Title in both the Women’s and Men’s divisions. The Slalom power couple was absolutely unstoppable and they are the new…
OBX-WIND 2023 is the largest windsurfing festival in North America. It took place from the 28th of October until the 4th of November on Hatteras Island in North Carolina, United States of America. Big shoutout goes to the organizers from the Ocean Air Sports Center. More than 130 athletes came together from all over the…
The new episode of the Dream Team Series is out! In the 7th Episode we feature Lena Erdil from Germany. Lena’s favorite disciplines are Wave, Slalom and iQFOiL. In this episode, Lena will talk us through the unboxing and set-up of the new 2024 Starboard Ultra. With a promising forecast, Lena will take her new…
The last stop of the Wave World Tour is finished and we know the Champions! The PWA/IWT Aloha Classic took place on beautiful Maui at Ho’okipa Beach Park. During the event, our Starboard Wave riders were unstoppable and finished at the absolute top. Antoine Martin claimed his first place at the 2023 Aloha Classic and…
The iQFOiL Youth and Junior World Championship 2023 took place in Cádiz, Spain during the last week of October. More than 360 athletes from 30 different countries joined the competition for the Youth and Junior World Title. At the end of the event, the U19 and U17 World Champions were crowned in both Men’s and…
The last stop of the 2023 Wave World Tour is on! The single eliminations of the PWA/IWT Aloha Classic on Maui finished and we could see Starboard riders win both the Women’s and Men’s divisions. Our Starboard rider Sarah-Quita Offringa claimed her 3rd Wave World Title and 22nd overall. She is truly an exceptional and unstoppable…
Sharing a passion together is priceless, especially within your family. Windsurfing brings together many people but to pass on the love for this sport to kids is something special. Our 13-years-old Starboard Dream Team rider John John Vanderick and his father Ben have been blasting the waters together for many years now. We asked them…
The final event of the Freestyle Pro Tour took place last week at Brouwersdam in the Netherlands. With a promising forecast, the organizers gave the green light during the waiting period and all riders moved to the famous spot at Brouwersdam. After fully action-packed 3 days of competition the Champions were crowned. Our Starboard multi-talent…
Our Starboard Dream Team rider Liam Dunkerbeck claimed the U20 World Title during the PWA/IWT Cold Hawaii Youth World Cup last weekend. The young riders experienced storm-chase conditions on the first day with wind gusts up to 50 knots. Liam was on a mission to defend his leading position and he claimed the victory in…
We have some big news to share with you! Welcome to the brand new Starboard Podcast on Spotify. We launched this platform to be even closer to you, our windsurfing community. You can look forward to the up-to-date news from the windsurfing world, meeting the Starboard Dream team, information about the boards and many useful…
The PWA World Cup on Sylt is over and we have some exciting results to share. During the 10 days of competition we could see a variety of conditions. Very tricky and always changing wind, shore break, and chaotic chop. The athletes were challenged both physically and mentally. The wind was very inconsistent and the…
The famous and cold PWA World Cup Sylt is ongoing and the freestyle division has already sailed single and double elimination. Sylt delivered lighter but difficult conditions. Riders had to deal with shorebreak, wind change and a chaotic chop. Our Starboard Dream Team rider Lennart Neubauer was absolutely unstoppable at the PWA World Cup on…
The Pacasmayo Classic The four star stop of the unified Professional Windsurfing Tour and International Wave Tour took place last week at Pacasmayo in Peru. This place is known for the longest wave in the world. It is a true dream for any wave sailor to ride this wave. The Pacasmayo Classic was packed with…
The Battle for the World Title: The iQFOiL U21 World Championship took place in the amazing lake in Silvaplana in Switzerland. This event marks a milestone in the Olympic Windsurfing class. With limited entry spots at the World Championship earlier in the Hague in Holland, this event in Switzerland offered a unique opportunity for younger…
The iQFOiL Class made a debut last week at the prestigious Allianz Sailing World Championship in Holland in the Hague. The famous Allianz Sailing Worlds take place once every 4 years and it is the first Olympic qualification contest for the athletes to secure a place at the summer Olympics in Paris 2024. The wind…
The 2023 PWA Freestyle World Cup in Fuerteventura is finished and the Starboard Dream team has been on fire this week. We saw them throwing down the latest tricks in epic conditions in Fuerteventura! Sarah-Quita Offringa claims her 21st World Title on tour and her 14th Freestyle World Title. The Queen of Windsurfing finished the…
The PWA World Cup is in full swing on Fuerteventura. The Slalom division finished on Monday and our Starboard Slalom riders dominated the event. Fuerteventura delivered proper conditions and we could see a full week of action, fin vs. foil battles, and crazy crashes. Sarah-Quita Offringa claimed an incredible victory on the fin. Blanca Alabau…
Our Starboard Team Rider Bobbi-Lynn de Jong is currently on Fuerteventura preparing for PWA Slalom World Cup. What are the goals for this big event? At only 13 years old, she already participated in multiple events and enjoys the Slalom discipline the most. From living in the cold Netherlands to tropical Bonaire. We have asked…
Our Starboard Dream Team is on fire! We have launched the 6th episode of our Starboard Dream Team Series. In this episode, we feature our Starboard superstar Blanca Alabau. She made history in the recent PWA World Cup in Pozo. After almost 15 years, Slalom returned to Pozo and the Women’s fleet was ready for…
Following the Gran Canaria Wave and Slalom World Cup, Pozo hosted another special event. Organization Windsurf Girls on Tour group organized a full day of windsurfing in Pozo Izquierdo. On the 10th of July, 40 women got together and experienced top-level coaching from the world’s leading women windsurfers. A full day of windsurfing, video analysis,…
The Starboard Dream Team Series has a new episode! In the 5th episode, our Starboard rider Flo Jung takes you through his day in Cape Town. Originally from Germany, now windsurfing in paradise. Flo describes Cape Town as a paradise on Earth, offering him everything he needs. Check out the whole video and get inspired…
Our Starboard Wave Dream Team showed incredible performances during the 2023 Gran Canaria PWA Windsurfing Wave Grand Slam. Pozo didn’t disappoint and delivered proper conditions to test the skills of wave riders from all over the world. Many Starboard wave riders reached the podium and took home a trophy. Sarah-Quita Offinga takes second place after…
After 14 years, the PWA Slalom Grand Slam has returned to Gran Canaria, Pozo Izquierdo. Our Starboard riders claimed the highest ranks in very challenging conditions. The 5th and last day for Slalom at Grand Canaria brought incredible results for our Dream Team Slalom riders. We have seen many tight rail-to-rail finishes, foil vs. fin…
The 4th episode of our Dream Team series is out! In this episode we feature our Starboard wave rider Antoine Martin. Antoine is born to be in the ocean. He is one of the most spectacular wave sailors in the world. He takes us to his home island Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, where he spends…
The first ever Freestyle Foilstyle competition with an end-result took place from the 7th to 11th of June in Vieste during the FPT Tour. Our Dream Team dominated the top of the fleet again! Lennart Neubauer had a heated final and ended up second in the double elimination. Steven Van Broeckhoven won a very close…
Dream Team rider Helle Oppedal from Norway wins the Formula Foil World Championship in Torbole, Lake Garda. The Formula Foil World Championship has been staged the second consecutive year at the Circolo Surf Torbole . With 25 races in five days, it had been a busy week for the competitors. Helle claimed the victory in…
The raceboard world championship took place from the 12th of June through to the 17th of June 2023 in Hannover, Germany. With over 160 competitors from 21 different nations, it demonstrated that raceboard windsurfing is not dead! Starboard ambassador Maksymilian “Max” Wojcik from Poland claimed the first place, riding the Phantom 377 Official press release:…
The Starboard girls, Sarah-Quita Offringa and Coraline Foveau, claim second and third place respectively at the Fiji Pro. This epic IWT/PWA event happened last week and wowed the riders as well as the spectators all over the world. The spot “Cloudbreak” had been firing already a few days before the event kicked off, providing incredible…
Big news for the Dream Team: the three de Jong sisters from Bonaire, Bobbi-Lynn, Kit and Lone are joining our team of champions. Only three years ago, all three sisters embarked upon their windsurfing journey. Where talent and dedication meets a nurturing environment, new stars are born. We are delighted to have them join the…
The Dream Team series episode 3, features Norwegian sailor Helle Oppedal. The 21 years old rider is chasing medals in the PWA slalom foil discipline, as well as the iQFOiL class. She already holds a world champion and four vice world champion titles. Follow Helle through a day in her life.
Are you ready to transition from a freeride to a freewave board? Let Peter Hart, Starboard UK teamrider and windsurf coach, walk you through the main differences between those two board types. Peter uses the 129lt Carve freeride and the 115lt Kode freewave board to explain why transitions might be hard to start with. If…
The Dream Team series episode 2 is out now! Follow our Italian Dream Team rider Federico Morisio who spent some time in Chile. From the morning workout/recovery routine to the afternoon break and snack, Federico Morisio takes you with him through a great day of windsurfing in the Chilean waves. He scored a double session…
Dream Team riders Blanca Alabau and Will McMillan end up in the top positions, reaching the second and third place respectively at the 2023 PWA Torbole World Cup. After ten years, the world elite finally returned to this European windsurf hotspot, to fight in the foil racing season opener. Official PWA statements about Blanca Alabau:…
The first Episode of the new Dream Team series is out! We’ll update you on a regular basis, on the adventures of our Dream Team riders. Watch the behind the scenes material on how they train, travel and prepare for competitions. Episode one was shot in Aruba and features three riders of our freestyle team:…
With 42 World Champion titles, he is currently the most successful windsurfer and one of the most successful professional athletes ever: Björn Dunkerbeck met Constantin “Brabus” Buschmann for a talk about his lifestory and his windsurfing career for the new video podcast series of the Brabus CEO – #BRABUS connects Björn talks about his childhood,…
Anyone who knows windsurfing in Australia knows there are few families more dedicated and focussed on having fun in our sport than the Halanks. As parents, both Akim and Anna have led their children Alex and Elli on endless windsurfing adventures worldwide, with considerable fun and success along the way. Alex has gone on to…
The Freestyle Pro Tour has a new tourleader: Lennart Neubauer from Greece. In challenging conditions, it was the 19 year old, who could dispatch off the remaining pro fleet and secure his first ever international event win in freestyle. Photo by Merlin Libicky Lennart, who just came back from injury, convinced with a great form…
For more than 15 years, Dream Team rider Flo Jung runs coaching clinics for windsurfers who want to improve their wave sailing skills. Under the label of “Peak Performance Camps”, he offers several clinics for windsurfers as well as wingfoilers in Portugal, Denmark and South Africa in 2023. Photo by Samuel Tome Special about those…
Dream Team rider Antoine Martin just released the first episode of his new video project: YLEM. Videographer and editor Matteo Nativelle produced a beautiful piece about the life of Antoine. Watch the video and enjoy the incredible nature of his home island, some worldclass windsurfing and learn which family member influenced him the most on…
Run for those who can’t! Be a part of the Wings for Life World Run on the 7th of May, by joining Dream Team member Björn Dunkerbeck and thousands of participants around the globe. Love my Earth and Zippels are organizing their own run for the Wings for Life World Run in Kiel. Find out…
Jericoacoara and Maceió are the places to be for Sarah-Quita Offringa, when it comes to her winter training. This year, there have been some highlights for her and it sounds like she’ll step up her freestyle game again this season. Sarah-Quita: “Every year, my trip to Brazil feels like a vacation! It’s at the end…
We proudly present the Starboard Dream Team of 2023. With many well-known riders and some new talents, the Starboard team is as strong as ever. Everyone is happy that 20 times World Champion, achieved through three disciplines (wave / freestyle / slalom), Sarah Quita Offringa continues her successful involvement with our brand. The word is…
Introduction The most sustainable speedsurfing tour is now underway from the first of April 2023! The Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge is an online event that brings together speedsurfers from around the world in one virtual tour. The event is divided into three periods, with each period lasting several weeks. Bjorn Dunkerbeck, 42 times windsurf World Champion,…
The International Wave Tour and the Professional Windsurfing Association joined forces in 2023. The first event, that would count for the overall ranking, took place in Omaezaki, at the Pacific coast of Japan. 24 men and 8 women competed at this wild windsurfing destination. Back in the 90’s, the SOMETIME World Cup was hosted there. It…
Dream Team rider and multiple World Champion, Sarah Quita Offringa, just released a new video: the best of the Canaries 2022. We caught up with the windsurf superstar from Aruba and asked her about the outlook for this season. Which events will she attend? Will we see the double forward in one of this years…
Have you ever wondered which fin set up to use at which spot? What are the advantages of a thruster or a quad set up? And in which conditions should you use it? Dream Team rider Federico Morisio uploaded a new video to his youtube channel, with helpful tips on which board and fin set…
Sharing the passion of windsurfing with your partner is helpful, when alarms regularly go off at 06:00 am to catch the early wind at Lake Garda – in winter… When it comes to those cold European windsurfing sessions, there are a few characters out there, who stand out. Two of them are Meiky Wieczorek and…
The Plastic Offset Program (POP) was created by Starboard to reduce the amount of waste in the natural environment through cleanups. The collection teams intersect beaches after storms, to collect as much waste as possible. POP consistently works on ways to increase the amount of waste recycled into new products each year. Starboard is guilty…
18-years old Jahdan Tyger from Brazil is one of the latest additions to the Starboard Dream Team and is excited to represent the brand in the wave discipline. The local from Jericoacoara started windsurfing in 2014. In 2017 he could already score the Youth World Champion title in the U13s division. In 2021 he locked…
Federico Morisio is a Starboard Dream Team member and represents the brand in the wave discipline. The Italian rider prepares vlogs on a regular basis, introducing his audience to the life of a professional windsurfer. He states: ‘This is the life I dreamed about and it feels incredible to actually live it. To keep this…
Dream Team member Sarah Quita Offringa is the multiple PWA world champion in freestyle, waves and slalom and is always looking for new ways to challenge herself. In the past years the Caribbean rider also got into kitesurfing, winging and longboarding. All of those activities she can enjoy on her home turf in Aruba. Sarah…
Dream Team rider from Belgium, Steven Van Broeckhoven, takes victory in the 2022 ‘best new move’ category, awarded by the Freestyle Pro Tour (FPT). In 2021 the FPT introduced their new annual award series. Categories that were open for submissions in 2022 were: rookie of the year, most improved rider of the season, best new…
Are you looking to buy a wave board from the Starboard range, but need some more purchase advice? Matt from Starboard UK talks you through the brand new 2023 wave range, with one video focusing on the 2023 Kode and one on the brandnew 2023 Ultra. Make sure to watch this, to help finding out…
After not being able to travel to Maui for some years, due to the pandemic, dream team rider Antoine Martin finally made it back to the island and back to the infamous break: Hookipa. When Martin won the Aloha Classic in 2019, he made his status as one of the most progressive riders on tour…
Starboard & World Sailing are excited to announce the January 2023 official launch of: WindsurfKids – a workbook for kids written by Linzi Hawkin & Lizzy Howard, with beautiful and fun illustrations by Sarah Steenland. WindsurfKids is a fun and friendly introduction to windsurfing, water safety and environmental education. Filled with inspiring stories, interactive challenges…
Have you ever wondered which board, in the freeride to race segment, you’ll have the most fun with? Look no further! Dream team rider Nico Prien tested the Starboard Carve, the Futura and the iSonic in Arinaga, Gran Canaria. Watch Nico talk about topspeed, differences resulting from changing the rig and manageability in chop and…
The 2022 PWA Slalom Vice World Champion Matteo Iachino just released a new video from his ocean crossing project. Words by Matteo: “Un solo mare per tutti means “There is only one ocean for all of us” and the challenge of the project has been a dream come true: crossing the Ligurian sea on a…
The 2022 PWA Slalom World Cup is done! Our team riders were battling it out on the fin and foil, and on the podium this year we have Matteo Iachino, who is the 2022 PWA Slalom Vice World Champion! Words by Matteo Iachino: «The event was good. I went there on a mission to…
The IWT Wave Tour is over for 2022 with the last event that took place in Hawaii. Congratulations to Liam Dunkerbeck with 3rd place in Hookipa in the Youth division. Big congrats to Antoine Martin who overall got 2nd place. After he competed in Oregon, Fiji, Peru and Maui, he could finally celebrate with a…
Our Dream Team rider Sebastian Kördel from Germany just won the iQFOiL World Championship! It was a week full of racing, and he impressed us all with his consistent sailing. He was winning race after race like a true champion! We could all see that he has really put in the hard work towards the…
Check out how a board is born, from concept to final board. Make sure to watch Nico Prien´s latest clip about how we make and test boards. Some of our top riders and shapers are also featured in this exciting documentary. Make some popcorn and enjoy this video! 0:00 Intro 1:00 From Idea to…
The PWA World Cup in slalom, wave and freestyle is just over here in Sylt, Germany. In the Starboard Dream Team we have 3 riders on the podium! Sarah-Quita Offringa won the wave event and Matteo Iachino and Steven van Broeckhoven got 3rd place in slalom and freestyle. On top of that, Sarah-Quita won her…
The up-and-coming junior sailor Liam Dunkerbeck put on a fantastic show at the last PWA Junior Wave World Cup in Denmark and won the U20 World Title! We asked Liam a few questions before he starts competing in the next PWA Wave World Cup in Sylt this week. How was your season so far? This…
Join our content creator Caden on a tour around Starboard Headquarters! This is the Starboard Office and the place we work on all the new board designs and new ideas. Go to our web page to see all our boards: https://windsurf.star-board.com/
Blanca Alabau just got to test her new iSonic 60 and all we can say is that she is rocking it! Blanca is also explaining where she puts her footstraps. Have you tried to have different footstrap settings on the left and the right side to adjust to the conditions? Check out the video for…
“Un solo mare per tutti” means “There is only one sea for everyone” MATTEO`S OCEAN PROJECT This project is a real dream come true for me. The region I come from in Italy, Liguria, faces one of the biggest stretches of open sea to the inside of the Mediterranean Sea. Not everyone knows that…
Words by Nico Prien: Another ✓ in my bucket list. Baltic Sea crossing! I sailed with Gunnar Asmussen Since so many years, whenever I would go sailing in my home spot, I couldn’t help, but imagining to keep sailing until you arrive to the other side. You can’t see it, but a look on the…
Our Starboard Dream Team rider Sarah-Quita Offringa had some exciting months of traveling and training. She went to Brazil, Capo Verde and the Canaries. She recently published some clips from each destination. The 19 x World Champion recently competed in the PWA Wave World Cup in Pozo where she finished on the podium with 3rd…
If you are planning a windsurfing trip in Texas, you need to read Phil Soltysiak´s travel story. What does the land of pick-up trucks, expansive ranches and oil wells have to offer to a Canadian in search of wind, water and adventure? Turns out the “Lone Star State” has more windsurfing “than you can shake…
Finally the PWA World Cup in Pozo was back on tour! Our Dream Team rider and 19 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa wrote about her time training and competing in Pozo. Keep reading if you want to know what is going on behind the scenes from Sarah´s point of view. Also take a look at…
The PWA Wave World Cup in Pozo is just done! Our team riders sailed their hearts out and showed the world of windsurfing the highest level of jumping! Pozo was challenging this year without many days of typical Pozo days! But on the last day, we got some proper wind and ramps to complete the…
Welcome to the Dream Team (Simon) Cookie! At Starboard we love people who are passionate about windsurfing and find ways to share their passion. We came across your Youtube Channel and loved the unique style of the videos where you take viewers on board with you. Viewers literally get to ‘ride-along’ with you, while you…
Freeride windsurfing is for everyone! We handed former British Champion and coach Peter Hart a Carve 159 to get his feedback. We were surprised to hear how much our technique guru enjoyed this bigger freeride board. He points out what advantages the Carve offers him over foil boards or faster more technical boards like…
The dream of learning the foiling tack! Our Dream Team rider Nico Prien has seen riders from all over the world trying the foiling tack! As we know him, he is always up for a challenge! Can he learn to foil tack? And can he learn it in just one day? Watch the video…
Windsurfing in South Africa during the winter is popular among wave sailors from all over the world. It´s time to get some behind the scenes on a photoshoot from a rider´s perspective! Our wave rider Flo Jung from Germany loves to spend the wintertime in South Africa. The waves around Cape Town and the consistent winds…
Another successful Defi Wind event has come to an end! Our top slalom racer Matteo Iachino was racing on the same starting line as 1300 other windsurfers. The world´s biggest windsurfing event got pretty extreme conditions with gusts over 40 knots! Read what Matteo says after the event below. Words by Matteo Iachino The…
New video of Dream Team rider Oda Johanne – Make the most out of every situation! Setting out to train harder than ever and up her freestyle and slalom game jet again, Oda injures herself while crashing a huge forward loop. Find out how she didn’t let it bring her down too long…
Watch Nico Prien´s new Vlog! You will see some full power racing at the German Surf Festival with the new iSonic boards! A crazy sandwich crash at the starting line and fun behind-the-scenes clips from Nico Prien´s life! He is also testing his wave gear in between all the racing! If you want to…
STARBOARD STEPS UP TO MAKE THE TRAVEL EMISSIONS OF THE 20TH EDITION OF DEFIWIND 10X CLIMATE POSITIVE Windsurfing’s biggest event becomes a driving force toward fighting against climate change. Windsurfing, albeit powered by natural elements, usually involves driving to find the best conditions or escaping cold temperatures. Perhaps, in this case, it’s going to the…
Today marks 55 years of Windsurfing. On May 21st, 1967 on a sunny and breezy spring day, inventor Jim Drake sailed the world’s first windsurfer and changed water sports forever. He didn’t have anyone to teach him that first day and had not invented the uphaul yet, plus he forgot the fin at home, but…
Starboard´s Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne from Windsurf University are here to help you to Get Ready For The Season! It´s time to have fun on the water and get everything ready for action. The main topics in this video: GEAR CHECK WINDSURF WORK OUT TRAIN YOUR MIND If you want…
Another interesting Vlog by Nico Prien! In this entertaining Vlog, Nico will test 4 different fins without knowing which one he is using. Will 15 years of racing be enough to know which fins he is using just by feeling? His cameraman also puts on a “surprise” fin to make it even more interesting! All…
The first foiling tack has just been completed by a 15-year-old. The performance gap between youth and senior sailors has never been smaller. iQFOiL history was written by 15-year-old Harry Joyner from Australia as he foiled through the first-ever tack on his iQFOiL equipment live in front of his coach’s camera. Since the beginning of…
The 2021 PWA Foil Vice World Champion Helle Oppedal sent us a report from her winter training in Tenerife. You might think you will read about the wind and her training hours. But this takes you inside Helle´s world where she was learning about how to handle being a professional windsurfer. Trying to find the perfect…
First WorldSailing World Cup Event that includes iQFOiL: Silver Medal Winner Pilar Lamadrid Shares Her Insights From The Iconic Princess Sophia Trophy. Between the 1st and 9th of April, the Princess Sophia Regatta was back in full force. Over 1000 competitors signed up for the first official WordSailing World Cup of 2022! One hundred seventy-five…
IT`S TIME TO LEARN TO WATERSTART Nico Prien is out with a new tutorial, and this is a good one! It´s time to let go of the uphaul rope and learn to beachstart and waterstart. Nico broke it down into 4 steps to make it easier for you. Make sure you get all the tips…
LIVING THE WINDSURFING LIFE Is Nico Prien living the best windsurfing life there is? Watching his latest Vlog, it looks like our Brand Manager has “fun at work”! Follow him when he takes the ferry from a windless Tenerife to a windy Pozo. His mission is to test his new 2022 iSonics. Nico shows some…
The German and Italian freestyle world knows Meiky Wieczorek with his elegant style on the latest power and double moves! He just started sailing the Starboard iGnite and we could not wait to ask Meiky for an interview about his return to Starboard boards, his love for freestyle, why he is not competing, and how…
We are happy to announce another team rider to the Starboard Dream Team! Welcome to the French wave sailor Alexandre Grand-Guillot. The 24-year-old wave sailor combines his windsurfing career with Business School in France. He is from La Manche, and you will always see him on the beach when the swell hits the French coast.…
What’s the definition of a freeride windsurf board, and how should you choose? A freeride board must be easy to use, cover an extensive range of conditions and be suitable for progressing riders of different abilities. Freeride boards are the most common and popular type of board that you see on most beaches. But with…
The 2022 SOMWR 10x Cabo Verde PWA World Cup saw the best male wave windsurfers compete against each other. They ran the contest at two locations in Sal. The Single Elimination was sailed at Ponta Preta in proper down-the-line waves. But as a promising forecast failed to happen, the event went mobile as the contest…
Dream Team rider Lena Erdil windsurf foils around the island of Lanzarote on her iQFOiL equipment. Lena became the only woman to complete the challenge and successfully foiled around Lanzarote; meanwhile, she ensured that half a tonne of ocean-bound trash never made it there! Huge swell, no wind, crashing and getting tangled up in fishing…
$BTIKI COIN IS HERE We are excited to announce that we just launched our social coin, the BLUE TIKI ($BTIKI). Not all that’s crypto is bad for the planet! We believe that climate-conscious customers should be rewarded for doing good. Thus we are introducing the Blue Tiki token which is a crypto asset based on…
KODE XL: Find out what attracts ever more people to bigger sized wave boards. You asked, we made it happen, since 2021 our Kodes come in the new XL sizes of 125L and 135L. Starboard rider and technique guru Peter Hart explains how the new XL Kodes can transform the ambitions of larger windsurfers and…
What’s Up, Nico Prien? After combining the pro-windsurf-life with becoming windsurfing’s most famous youtube vlogger, Nico Prien joined the Dream Team not only as a rider but also as a Brand Manager; we wanted to find out how all this is going for him so far. You started your job as Starboard Windsurfing’s new…
Our legendary team rider Björn Dunkerbeck will release his new film documentary this year. The premiere of Dunkerbeck’s film will be in Germany, Sylt during the PWA World Cup. The trailer takes you behind the scenes in Namibia, where there are a lot of riders chasing their speed dream! An epic speed channel also means…
WE DID IT AGAIN: WE WON THE PWA CONSTRUCTOR TITLE AFTER A DIFFICULT RACING SEASON AT THE PWA WORLDTOUR, STARBOARD MANAGED ONCE AGAIN TO BRING HOME THE PRESTIGIOUS CONSTRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE. Are you wondering how it’s possible to win the PWA constructors title 14 times in 15 years and every single title in the last…
Welcome back Björn Dunkerbeck, 42 x World Champion! After a couple of years, Björn Dunkerbeck is back on Starboard’s Dream Team. Having this legendary athlete return once again to ride on our iSonic and Ultrakode’s makes us proud. In 2008 Björn signed with Starboard for the first time and won his final PWA Slalom…
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO WINDSURFING AND THE iQFOiL CLASS LEARN HOW TO iQFOIL: A COMPLETE VIDEO GUIDE TO WINDSURFING’S NEW OLYMPIC CLASS Five brand new videos are now available as a resource free of charge for clubs, federations, schools, or anyone else looking for help while guiding young sailors on their iQFOiL Journey. To…
Get Extra Control Using Footstraps If you have done a few windsurfing sessions, and are using a harness, it’s time to start planing and learn how to use the footstraps! This will kick off your blasting career and help you enjoy your sessions even more with extra control. We all remember our first time planing.…
Welcome to the Team Helle! We are happy to have you on board. How do you feel about being a part of the Starboard family? I’m am super excited!! I have never been on an international team before, so I’m super excited to see how it is. I also think that the Starboard Team seems…
When you learn to windsurf and use the harness, you will suffer a few catapults now and then! But as we can see in Nico Prien´s latest Vlog, even the professional windsurfers catapults hard when they push their speed! Unlucky for Nico he broke a lot of gear, but luckily not himself! After nailing…
2021 has been a challenging year for our riders who are competing in the PWA World Cup. But our Starboard Dream Team has performed really well! At the last World Cup in France; SOMWR Movement 10 x Marignane PWA Grand Slam, the wind did not play ball, but luckily the freestyle sailors got to compete…
STARBOARD x DEFIWIND 40KM GPS Challenge JOIN THE DEFI FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WIN SOME AWESOME PRICES #Starboard💙 DefiWind 29th October till 4th November. With Covid regulations still in place, only 300 people will be able to participate in this years special Defi Wind Superstars edition. But to give as many people…
Words by Sarah-Quita Offringa, 17 x World Champion in Freestyle, Wave and Slalom. “We have one more event to go this year in France. It’s going to be a grand slam which means I’ll be competing in all three disciplines at one event. That’s going to be a challenge! This time of year I…
Welcome To The Starboard Family Federico Morisio We are super excited to finally introduce to you the newest member of Starboard’s Dream Team: Federico Morisio. Down the line wave riding, positivity and sharing the stoke is what Federico lives for. Unfortunately, Federico just injured his knee on a bad landing so he is currently in…
Last days our Team riders posted some new clips! DREAM PLACE FOR FOILING Let´s start with our slalom rider Tristan Algret. He went to Corsica with some friends and the Defi wind crew! Judging from this video, Corsica looks like one of the best spots for foiling! Tristan is currently preparing for competing in…
Antoine Martin is going big and radical in his fresh new edit! Massive jumps and fun sailing is what you can expect from our team rider that signed with us last year! With the new 2022 UltraKode that we just launched, Antoine is stepping on to another level of radical windsurfing! Going to Gran Canaria this…
If you wonder how it was behind the scenes of the iQFOiL European Championship keep reading! iQFOiL senior sailor Helle Oppedal went to Croatia to help the young riders and here is what she experienced during a week full of Youth Foil Action! Words by Helle: When arriving at the event site of the…
Hi Starboard fans! My name is Axel Espeli-Blankholm. I am Norwegian and live in Oslo. I will tell you all a bit about myself and my windsurfing life! I sail in the Oslofjord as often as I can. I’m 12 years old and I love foiling and slalom sailing. I started windsurfing with my dad…
After an amazing week in Switzerland, we can look back at the first world championship in iQFoiL and a great EPFT freestyle tow-in contest in the beautiful lake of Silvaplana in Switzerland. Finally, it was time for the most important foil contest of the year: The iQFOiL World Championship in Silvaplana. Foilers from all around…
The iQFoiL World Championship in Silvaplana is kicking off today! At the last contest in Garda the Dutchman, Huig Jan Tak finished in 2nd place and impressed us with his consistent foiling and tactical race skills! We caught up with Huig and asked him a few questions before the biggest event of the year! HI…
At Starboard we believe that our passion for windsurfing grows and intensifies when it’s shared and our team of riders and coaches seems to agree. When you teach someone to windsurf you get to relive those treasured moments, like using the harness for the first time or finally getting into those footstraps. Added benefits? You…
The first iQFoiL Youth and Junior World Championships come to a happy end in Garda, Italy. A total of 14 Races in the iQFOiL Youth men fleet, 13 Races in the iQFOiL Women Youth and Boy Junior Fleet, and 11 Races in the Junior iQFOiL women fleet were completed. The first-ever youth and junior iQFOiL…
The first official iQFoiL Youth and Junior World Championships are set to take place this weekend at Lake Garda, Italy. 271 young racers from 23 nations are ready to fight it out on the racecourse. With 4 official World Titles up for grabs between Youth (u19) and Junior (u17), a staggering number of 271 young…
Remi Vila Foils Around Martinique Starboard’s Head Designer, Remi Vila, Foils 219km Around His Home Island, Martinique, in ONE DAY. Is this the windsurfing experience of a lifetime?! ‘Foiling around Martinique was my revenge for all the bad stuff that happened to me in the past years!’ Remi Vila makes his dream come…
After a successful PWA slalom event in Israel, we also witnessed amazing racing in Garda! This time it was up to the youngsters to battle it out on the racecourse. In this article, you will meet the future of our sport! These are the youngsters who are pushing hard to become pro windsurfers, and they…
Back in action After a long PWA World Cup break of 18 months, we could finally see our Dream Team race again! The PWA event in Slalom and Foil was confirmed some weeks ago and our team headed out to the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias. The riders met up for the skippers meeting at…
Redbull Greece and Lennart Neubauer just released an awesome video project! They created a wind park at Lennart´s home spot in Naxos, Greece. Make sure to check out the video where he does tricks off the ramp as we have never seen before. He does not only jump off the ramps but he is also…
16 X (Sarah-Quita + Starboard) = 17 PWA World Titles, 130 Starboards and Endless Hours On The Water! Pro Kid to Windsurfing Legend, looking back at 16 years together. Looking forwards to many more years to come! Is the partnership between Sarah-Quita and Starboard the most successful partnership in windsurfing history? We leave you to…
How To Set Up Your iGnite: Starboard’s Dream Team Riders Sarah-Quita Offringa, Oda Johanne and Lennart Neubauer explain how they set up their favorite freestyle boards.
When foiling becomes an adventure you will remember for the rest of your life! The Lanzarote Foil Challenge was hectic, long and hard! Over 200km is what it took to go around the island of Lanzarote on a foil. The fleet set off from the south of the island at 9 am only to return…
Welcome to the world´s first windsurf university Our Dream Team riders Oda Johanne and Sarah-Quita Offringa have just started the world’s first Windsurf University! We guess you asked yourself the same questions as we did when we first heard about it. Windsurf University? What is that? Can you study the best sport in the…
The Wind is Calling – Will you pick up the phone? Temperatures are getting warmer, termical winds are slowly setting in, and we are excited for summertime! Going faster, the freedom of making your own decisions on the water, sharing sessions with friends or just feeling close to nature. We have asked our team what…
After eight hours of competition in the EFPT Freestyle Pro Tour, one single and double elimination was finished sailed on the last day of the Surf Opening in Neusiedl am See! We asked our team riders Julian, Lennart and Steven how it was to be back competing again! We congratulate Lennart with a win in…
It’s time to learn about Flatwater Blasting and how to really, really, really fly with the gear! If you are into slalom sailing and wonder how the pros go that much faster, then you are lucky! Nico Prien explains how you can learn to balance speed and control and hopefully you can improve your sailing with these super…
It seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating Earth Day 2020, but after a tough and turbulent 12 months we are back again for one of the big days in the nature lovers calendar. The COVID-19 pandemic has had us all searching for a route back to normality. But it is time to ask…
Famous windsurfing coach Phil Richards from GetWindsurfing went Live on Starboard´s Facebook page, and there are a lot of handy tips and tricks to learn from him! Make sure to watch it if you missed it. Click here to watch! The Carve – As Good As It Gets In this Facebook Live, Phil talked about…
Our new Starboard Dream Team rider, Nico Prien, just released his new Vlog and this is a good one to watch! Don’t miss out on all the information he gives about one of his favorite islands: Tenerife. This video gives you a spot guide and some great info about what to expect if you want to…
iQFOiL Class Manager Gonzalo Costa Hoevel talks live about the latest news concerning the official world titles awarded to the iQFOiL Youth and Junior and classes. He also answers audience questions live concerning trim and tuning of the equipment. Make sure to watch this video to find out all the latest information regarding iQFOiL. Gonzalo had…
Starboard Turns EFPT Carbon Positive This year we are once again supporting the EFPT with its carbon footprinting efforts and offsetting. After starting the carbon offsetting cooperation with EFPT in 2019, we are excited to announce that Starboard turns the EFPT carbon positive for 2021. We will be making the whole European Freestyle Pro Tour…
Another Star joins our Dream Team – Welcome on board Antoine Martin! We are very excited to share the news of having signed one of the most exciting talents the windsurfing world has on offer: Antoine Martin from Guadeloupe. Having won the most prestigious PWA event, the Aloha Classic on Maui in 2019, he proved his…
Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne is reunited for training in Aruba! Read their update from another Lovely Holiday in Aruba. Again. Sarah-Quita: It’s been about 6 months since Oda was stuck in Aruba due to the lockdown in 2020, but she ventured out to the Caribbean again and has been on island since January. Let me…
The World Sailing Council overwhelmingly accepted the iQFOiL Youth&Junior Class Application. This will entitle the Class to five (5) official world titles, which will be distributed between the youth (U19) and junior (U17) age groups. iQFOiL Youth&Junior is a One Design Class which allows youth and junior sailors to compete using a very similar package…
CARVE GIVEAWAY Last month we announced a BOARD GIVEAWAY where YOU can win a brand new Carve 2021! We in Starboard are always interested to see what we can do better for the world. When you purchase a board, we pick up 1.1 kg of beach plastic trash. And for each board produced, we plant one mangrove…
Blanca Alabau takes you to the beach in Tenerife where she trains foil slalom every day! Being comfortable on the foil gear is important when you compete in the discipline, but if you are also foiling just for fun, we can tell you that a good set-up is super important to be in control and…
For 2021 we are adding a new positive impact campaign to our list of environmental efforts: 30×30. We will be working alongside water sports heavyweights and ocean lovers all over the world to call upon world leaders to protect 30 percent of our shared oceans by 2030. What Is 30×30? 30×30 is the international…
Hi Matteo! It’s been a different year! A year without any PWA racing! How do you stay active and motivated? One year without PWA racing has been weird. My whole life has been based on racing and competitions for the last 10 years. At the same time, it gave me time to focus on other stuff.…
We are excited and happy to announce that Mateus Isaac from Brazil will join our Starboard Dream Team! The 27-year-old slalom and foil racer has been competing 5 years in the PWA World Tour in Slalom and Foil. The 2015 Youth World Champion also took his first victory in the PWA Foil World Cup in Korea in…
TO WIN THE NEW 2021 CARVE YOU NEED TO DO 3 THINGS: 1 – Post a video on Instagram or Facebook where you show and explain your environmental action during the last month using #tikiaction and @starboardwindsurfing. 2 – Like & Share this video post on Instagram or Facebook. 3 – Tag 3…
Our team rider Fiona Wylde is one of the biggest water sports talents on the planet. She finished an impressive 2nd place twice in the Aloha Classic wave event at Hookipa in 2015 and 2014. With her great performance she also became 2014 PWA Wave Youth Windsurfing World Champion. Only two years later she wins…
BACK TO FREEDOM – NICO PRIEN IS FINALLY WINDSURFING IN THAILAND As you might know, we have a new team rider in the Starboard Dream team; Nico Prien. He has done a big step in changing his board sponsor. But that´s not only it! He will also take part in work tasks in Starboard from now…
Info from PWA: Great news for the windsurfing world. The Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) is happy to announce that the PWA World Tour will become the latest sporting arena to introduce equal prize money to winners in the men’s and women’s fleets at its events. Inspired by events like the Gran Canaria PWA World Cup, which had…
Welcome To The Dream Team Nico We are excited to announce the latest transfer to our Dream Team: Nico Prien joins the Starboard Team from 2021 onwards. Most of you will probably have come across his Youtube Channel or know him from following the World Tour. But that’s not all, Nico is not only…
The Plastic Offset Program (POP) was created by Starboard, and so far we have been the only ones to create such a program. POP allows us to be more responsible for the plastic used within our business’s products, as well as our production processes. Plastic Problems Every day, our POP team heads out to…
Lucía and Isabel Trivino Delgado are two windsurf sisters from Tarifa, Spain. Actually, they are twins, and they are ripping! We did an interview with the future champs that tried windsurfing for the first time when they were 5 years old! Growing up with a father that was a windsurf addict, they were lucky to be…
Philip Soltysiak has spent more time at home in Hood River and he got some epic sessions on the windy river with his iGnite and UltraKode boards! Enjoy the clip below and read Phil´s update from the Gorge where you can windsurf every day from April to November! Words by Phil: HOOD RIVER…
Almost all of the material items we own eventually reach an end of life stage when they are no longer usable. This is a particular problem in the surf industry, as broken and outdated boards, fins and other accessories become huge pollutants in our natural environment. Up until now, Starboard has taken action on this…
Our team riders Sarah-Quita and Oda Johanne are doing all the disciplines in windsurfing in their 2nd episode of “Roadtrip”. Here is the story of Team Lovely Holiday on their way to Italy where they went freestyling, foiling and wave sailing! Italy here we go! After Denmark, we decided to drive down to Italy.…
This year, so many other companies, Starboard is bucking the crazy consumption trend again and saying no to Black Friday. Instead we want to encourage you to repair and reuse items that you already have, consume responsibly and at a fair price, and to go Blue this Friday! But why are we saying this? Isn’t…
We are very excited to announce that As you can tell, Starboard would love to win the sustainability award and we’re very excited. This Friday we need your help! Vote Starboard for this year’s Sustainability Award. At Starboard, we use every opportunity to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions from the company’s running of business.…
How To Set Up Your Kode for Freeride Our Kode’s have footstrap and fin positioning options that make it possible to transform them from radical wave boards to comfortable and cruisy freeride boards. In this video Phil Richard from GetWindsurfing explains how to set your Kode up with freeride settings and explains the benefits…
Slalom World Champion and Starboard Team rider Matteo Iachino gives us a tour around his parent’s house. This is where he stores all his gear between training and competition travels. Slalom, foil, surf, and wave gear is what he has a lot of. Can you count all his fins? Hi Matteo! Thanks for showing…
Have you tried the famous body drag? Sarah-Quita Offringa who is 17 x World Champion in Freestyle, Wave and Slalom, explains the body drag in detail! This was one of the first moves Sarah-Quita learned on a windsurfer and still is one of her favorite moves! Here are her quick tips: To star the…
Straight Outta Fiskebäck Media presents the very first Straight Outta Fiskebäck Junior Freestyle Team feature film. The Team was founded in 2014 by Swedish pro rider and coach Erik “Hawk” Håkman in Fiskebäck, Gothenburg. Watch some great action shots from a recent session from the freestyle team (in order of appearance): Primus “Preemo” Sörling, Leo…
As you might have seen on social media, we have selected a winner of a brand new iSonic 2021 based on a video competition we ran on our Social Media channels in October! Take a look at the video below: ONLINE CONTEST After launching our new iSonic 2021 models, we wanted to help…
Congrats Sebastian Kördel for winning the iQFOiL International Games in Lake Garda! We are used to seeing you on the PWA Slalom and Foil tour. How do you feel about winning this iQFOiL event? Well, I have lately turned Olympic sailor this year first of all because PWA events have been canceled due to corona.…
Our Dream Team rider Sarah-Quita Offringa went on a road trip in Europe with team mate Oda Johanne. Read her update below and check out their vlog where they drive after the wind! Words by Sarah-Quita: Keep The Stoke Rolling! Well since all the competitions officially got cancelled Oda came to grab me in Holland…
Former PWA Slalom Vice World Champion Lena Erdil has made a big change in her life. She moved to Germany, joined a German sailing club, and trains iQFOiL almost every day. We caught up with her and asked some questions about the life as a foiler with an Olympic dream. Hi Lena! From being…
Our dream team rider Matteo Iachino who is well known as one of the best slalom and foil windsurfers in the world just competed in his first speed event! He took part in “Prince of Speed” and speeded into a 2nd place! We asked him some questions of what he learned and maybe you can…
First Thai iQFoil Junior Event The first Thai iQFoil Junior event took place from the 26-27th of September in Jombtien, Pattaya. 15 riders registered for the iQFoil Junior Division and despite very light winds on the first day, they managed to complete the first race. On the second day, the first race was the…
Like you, we are burning to compete again, that’s why we are super excited to announce a very special online competition where one of you can win a brand new 2021 iSonic of your choice! Here’s what you need to do to become the proud new owner of a 2021 iSonic: – Like and share…
The iQFoil class has taken the windsurfing world to a whole new level of being able to compete in lighter wind. We see a trend of young new stars flying around on the Olympic foil gear and experiencing the sensation of flying. We caught up with Anders Føyen, who helped organize the first ever iQFoil…
There is always something we can do to make the ocean cleaner and the world a better place. We at Starboard recently joined a beach clean up, and together we took away 812 kilos of trash from the beaches. Read what Thippayasukon Mongprasert says about the World Cleaning Day event: Hello Everyone, Today I would…
PWA reports: Noerstick Cold Hawaii PWA Youth Wave World Cup certainly didn’t disappoint with Klitmøller delivering a full day of competition, which allowed results to be gained in every fleet. The next generation was given a stern test with the North Sea throwing up some sizeable nuggets, while fluctuating winds -20-35 knots – made things…
EXCITING FINALS AT THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The Engadin Wind event is a wrap and we have two new European Champions after a long week of racing! On the last day of the iQFoil Europeans, it was all set for an exciting final in the men´s and women´s racing. The winner of the final would…
Jaeger Stone in West Australia Enjoy this awesome wave clip of Jaeger Stone from earlier this year when he was sailing in West Australia. This clip was shot over a couple of days after he returned from his knee injury. He tells us it was nice to be sailing again, having fun, and building up…
Team rider Oda Johanne went on a Greek Escape to the windy island Naxos to train freestyle. She made a clip with PWA freestyler Maaike Huvermann. Check out their training session where Oda is late for training. We asked Oda some questions about the 2020 season and what her plan is for the upcoming…
We asked the young and talented slalom, foil, and speed sailor Cyril Evrard for some tips about speed. Normally you hear stories of heavier fast speed sailors, but the 16-year-old Belgium sailor has with his 68 kilos sailed 40 knots on his iSonic! In 2018 he won the Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge (World Championship) under…
WOULD YOU DARE? Would you try being towed behind a car on your windsurf gear in 70 km/h and go full speed off a wooden ramp in 30 cm deep water? At the same time do a double rotation? Sure most people would not dare, but the Greek/German young talent and Starboard Dream team rider…
WOULD YOU DARE? Would you try being towed behind a car on your windsurf gear in 70 km/h and go full speed off a wooden ramp in 30 cm deep water? At the same time do a double rotation? Sure most people would not dare, but the Greek/German young talent and Starboard Dream team rider…
Dream Team Rider Tristan Algret motivates windsurfers at home with windsurfing clinics. He spent lockdown in Paradise: his home Island of Guadeloupe. Like most windsurfing Pros, he usually spends most of the year on the road traveling between events and training camps. Now that Corona put a stop to that, Tristan decided to take advantage of…
On a flat summer day on Maui, Zane Schweitzer and Adam Klevin were hungry for action. They decided to get creative in the trade winds on the west side of Maui. Adam had a new camera and waterhousing to go with it. He was excited to test it and Zane was stoked as always to…
Hi all! My name is Oda Johanne, and I have been sailing for Starboard my whole professional windsurfing career. I compete in the PWA World Cup in freestyle, slalom and wave. I recently spent time on Aruba to train with team rider and good friend Sarah-Quita at her home spots. Due to COVID-19 I was stuck on the windiest spot…
Everyone who sails speed or slalom wants to be fast! They want to fly! We asked top PWA slalom and foil rider Sebastian Koerdel for some tips to get the Starboard iSonic fast. Make sure to check out the video below. How can you be fast on the iSonic? Don`t hold back! You need that…
Lennart Neubauer G-734 is ripping on his iGnite 87L. World class freestyle sailing by the young talent. He is enjoying the Greek summer on the water! More info about the board he is riding: https://windsurf.star-board.com/products/ignite/ Video by: @titos georgiadis Music by: Nic Lyberis
They are young, they are island boys and they train hard on and off the water. We caught up with two really talented wave and freestyle boys from our Dream Team: Liam Dunkerbeck and Lennart Neubauer. How was the lockdown for you? LIAM: At the beginning very hard because here on Gran Canaria we couldn’t go…
Hello there! My name is Oda Sverre and I love windsurfing! I am a 16-year-old windsurfer located in Oslo, Norway. Cruising around the sea is an indescribable feeling. Full power in the sail and my hair blowing in the wind. It is just me out there and it makes me feel so free and alive. I…
First iQFoil Boards Are Delivered Germany’s first batch of iQfoil Boards got delivered and distributed, our Dream Team rider Lena Erdil was the lucky receiver of one of them! Together with her team mate Helena they unpack the boards and head for their first sessions. We caught up with Lena to ask about her first…
Hi Julian! You are a 10-year-old windsurfing talent. We recently saw a video of you on a speed board on social media. We were extremely impressed with your sailing and want to know more about you and how it is to be a windsurfing kid! Hi Starboard! I am Julian Koldeweid and I am from…
STARBOARD X AIRUSH FREEWING Please fasten your seatbelts and return your tray table to its full upright and locked position as we prepare for take-off. Get into the cockpit with Captain Zane Schweitzer as he gets set to take off with the NEW Starboard X Airush FreeWing. Learn more: https://freewing.star-board.com
Starboard’s Dream Team: Exploring Norway Oda Johanne: “A road trip to remember for a lifetime! 1,5 years ago we packed our van with EVERYTHING and drove from Stavanger to Lofoten with one mission: “Do Cool Stuff”. Road tripping “at home” made me realize that there are so many golden places in Norway that I have…
Our Dream team rider Dudu Levi is showing us how beautiful his home spot is. Israel is delivering waves, sunshine, and shorty weather. Beautiful drone images coupled with some radical freestyle action. Thanks, Dudu! Below the video, you can read a short interview with Dudu. Where in Israel do you live? I live…
Starboard x Airush FreeWing is here now: https://freewing.star-board.com/ The FreeWing shares the stoke of Kite, SUP and Windsurf into a single flying experience. Working with the design team from both Airush and Starboard, the FreeWing fuses the innovation and ideology of the different sports into groundbreaking designs with refined performance. With development between Thailand, Bali,…
Get windsurfing fit in 30 days! Join the challenge with Flo Jung to get fit for windsurfing. Flo Jung is a German windsurfer that loves to spend time in the ocean. He started competing on the PWA Wave tour in 2008. We took a quick word with him, and below you can watch his latest windsurf…
Coach Sam Ross is out with a new YouTube series Flight School 2.0 that will help you take your windsurfing skills to the next level. This is what he has to say: I’m really pleased to release Flight School 2.0. It builds on the first flight school videos released a few years ago, to update…
Goes Big On the Starboard iGnite 2020 Our team rider Lennart Neubauer goes big in his latest video! He is one of the biggest young windsurfing talents out there! Check out his latest clip filmed at his home spot Naxos in Greece. We can´t wait to see him back on the water when the…
Size Matters: Ignite Choosing the right size freestyle board for your weight is crucial. We know that size matters also for our Ignite’s and that is why we have 3 sizes to choose from. The Ignite is a hybrid board that comes with 2 different fins and foot strap settings. This allows you to transform…
The UK coaching duo Phil Richards and Danielle Lucas, well known as GetWindsurfing, have been coaching windsurfing for years all around the world. We got an exclusive interview and have shared their at home windsurfing coaching videos with you here below. Get inspired to practice windsurfing at home with GetWindsurfing! How did you two…
Team rider Tristan Algret tries to foil around Guadeloupe with his friend Fabien Delporte. Do you think they will make it? Watch the trailer below. Tristan is foiling on the Starboard Race Foil and Foil Race 177 during this adventure around Guadeloupe.
If you want to know the story behind Starboard, check out this exclusive interview with Starboard´s Chief Innovator Svein Rasmussen. He answers everything, from how he came up with the brand name, to who he would like to have as a dinner guest! He also tells us about his yearly 300 travel days as a…
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING “A look into the windfoiling championships held in Manly New Zealand 2020. Big thanks to the team at Wind Foiling NZ and the Manly Sailing Club in Whangaparoa for giving me the chance to film the event.” – Dylan Crummer
Lovely Holiday – Australia Starboard duo Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne are out with a new Lovely Holiday episode from Australia! “Follow Beatrice and Magdalena on their 5-week road trip up and down the coast of WA. They find awesome conditions for freestyle, wave sailing and through trial and error learn how to survive in the…
Starboard rider Miriam Rasmussen sent us an update from her current situation. She has put her time into helping out during the Coronavirus crisis in Norway. Here’s a short update she sent us on what Miriam and her partner Pål have been up to for the past couple of weeks. Words by Miriam Rasmussen: I…
Epic Foil Racing In New Zealand as Antonio Cozzolino Wins the Foilracing Nationals Hello Antonio Cozzolino, first of all, big congratulations on winning the epic foil racing nationals in New Zealand last week. After the big success in the Australian Windfoil Championship last month, where we saw some epic racing, we see that foil racing seems…
Xavier Ferlet reports from this month’s Midwinters foil event: The Midwinters was a great event. Credit to Justin Ahearn and his wife for organizing it at the Clearwater Community Sailing Center in Florida. Aside from organizing the event, Justin also coaches kids. Hence there were so many kids at the event which made it so refreshing. That’s the next…
Size Matters: UltraKode Choices Float and Ride, or full speed towards some jumping ramps. Having the right size Ultrakode for your weight can make all the difference. Using a wave board that is too big for your weight and sail size, can leave you feeling unable to make the turns you want. While a…
When the Coronavirus started, not many people were aware of the consequences this virus would bring. For professional windsurfers, it started with world cups and other events being canceled, to beaches being closed so training can not be done anymore. And just in the last couple of days, everything except supermarkets is closed. The situation…
We caught up with the French duo Benjamin Auge and Esteban de Cruz in a Starboard interview. Benjamin Auge (24 years old) competes in the PWA slalom world tour and Esteban de Cruz (15 years old) travels the world around with his dad and Benjamin. Together they enjoy time on the water and they both started windsurfing…
Franz Orsi went on an adventure to Capo Verde with his Starboard Kode 105. Enjoy the clip from the Italian windsurfer!
Welcome Back to Starboard’s Dream Team Cyril Moussilmani Cyril Moussilmani is back on Starboard’s Dream Team and ready to fly again with our iSonic’s. At Starboard we are looking forward to having Cyril back on our team especially since he has been a big part of the Starboard family for 8 years in the past.…
High Wind Slalom Sailing in Tenerife – Lena Erdil´s New Vlog Lena Erdil is now in Tenerife and she is scoring great conditions. She has been racing slalom in high wind lately and the training has been hard! Did you know that it´s normal with a high heart rate while racing? High Wind Slalom Training…
Size Matters: Find the right iSonic size for you Our Dream Team Riders give you insides on which iSonic sizes work best for their different weights. We believe that for slalom sailing, size matters. Starboard’s iconic iSonic boards have won more PWA Constructor Titles than any other board on the market. Their effortless jibing…
STARBOARD FOIL TESTING AND FOIL CLINIC Rob Hofmann went to the Philippines this year again and planned 2 weekends in February to test the new Starboard Foil gear. At the same time, he also gave a foil clinic. Here is his report: CHOOSING THE PERFECT FOIL LOCATION We had seven new Starboard Foils and some…
VIETNAM FUN CUP During this year´s Vietnam Fun Cup event we had competitors from twelve different nationalities all fired up and ready for the battle to commence in a fun but always competitive spirit. The competitors came from Vietnam, Russia, Thailand, Greece, the UK, Estonia, USA, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, and Canada were ready for…
Jaeger Stone wins Margaret River Wave competition and tells us it was tough conditions until late in the day. Some sets were massive! The Margaret River wave event was held in really big conditions this year. The wind was a little more south than usual so the sets were big, bumpy and unpredictable. It…
Australian Foil Racing Nationals Foil Racing might still be a discipline in its infancy, but it has grown extremely fast. This can be seen in the amazing turn up of racers at the Australian foil racing nationals in Queensland last week. While Europe is still in wintersports mode or chasing storms, Australia’s foil racing scene…
Motoko Sato is a female windsurfer from Japan. She impressed the whole windsurfing world with her sailing at Hookipa during the last Aloha Classic event. She finished on the podium behind Sarah-Quita Offringa and Iballa Moreno. We took a quick word with her! Hi Motoko! When did you start windsurfing and what keeps you…
Starboard’s Exclusive Tiki Camp Youngster Edition is here Do you love to blast along full speed, or have just attempted your first vulcans, spocks, or loops? Then our Tiki Camp Youngster Edition is for you! Starboard and Rene Egli have put together an exclusive Windsurfing Camp coached by former PWA Freestyle competitors Phil Richards…
New Windsurfing Quick Tips Video Series with Sam Ross At Starboard we are extremely excited to launch Sam Ross’s new windsurfing quick tips video series on our Youtube Channel. The first two quick tips called “Front Hand Positions” and “Stance” have already been released and till the end of March, we will be releasing…
Nick Thake, our video/photographer of the 2020 Starboard photoshoot shares his experiences and impressions of working with the Dream Team. He also presents some exclusive action footage of our Team shining for the cameras during the shoot. Beneath you can read a quick interview with Nick. Make sure to check out the video to…
Words by Lena Erdil: I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of a new project I’ve been working on with my good friend and now business partner Katharina Seelack. Over the past year, we have created a new brand called MyWindstories. On our new Webpage www.mywindstories.com we offer windsurf camps for girls, as well as a Platform…
Sarah-Quita Offringa is the Queen of windsurfing and with winning 16 World Titles in freestyle and slalom, 2019 was the year she got the one that was missing; the Wave World Title. Read her story below: “Looking back at where my wave year started with two 3rd places in the canaries, I would not have…
After a hectic year of traveling and windsurfing, Beatrice (Oda Johanne) and Magdalena (Sarah-Quita Offringa) find themselves back where their windsurfing career started. Brazil! Hold on as they go for off-roading Brazilian style before busting out their latest freestyle moves in Jericoacoara and Lagoa Grande. And also it seems they’re getting more and more synchronized!…
We took a word with our French rider Romain Cordier. The 21-year-old sailor lives in Wissant, north of France. He´s in the second year of his studies to become a physiotherapist and simply just loves to windsurf in waves. Read a quick interview below. How did you get into windsurfing? I started windsurfing at…
Henri Kolberg, a young rider for the Starboard Wave Team, starts the new season and talks about his passion in “OCEAN MINDED”. Enjoy the clip!
A short & fun edit of Canadian Phil Soltysiak windsurfing in the Gorge. The footage was shot at Rowena and the Hatchery. Read more about Phil´s favorite board here. Edit by Adam Wojtkowiak Music by: Glass Animals – The Other Side of Paradise Thanks to Andy Peterson, Joe Lundstrom and Samuel Pyke/Explore The Dalles…
No other brand has won as many Constructors Titles as Starboard Windsurfing, in fact, Starboard has won 13 out of 14 Titles! Great boards in combination with great riders is Starboard’s secret to this unequalled success story. “What makes us particularly proud is that these titles didn’t come from a stroke of luck or a…
Dynamic duo Magdalena and Beatrice (Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne) are back at it ! This time they’ve escaped the scorching summer in Europe and travelled down to Gran Canaria for another lovely holiday. After their first trips to Brasil and Bonaire it looks like they’ve stepped up their game and are giving the…
Our Dream Team champions have agreed to share their winning secrets. Delphine Cousin, Sarah-Quita Offringa, and Philip Köster are the 2019 PWA World Champions! Philip Köster wins his 5th Wave World Title, Sarah-Quita Offringa takes home her 17th PWA World Champion Title. Delphine Cousin also adds another 2 World Titles to her name in 2019 bringing…
Some kids were born to windsurf, and these kids are some of them: Lennart Neubauer, Liam Dunkerbeck and Giulio Gasperini. They are some of the youngest talents in windsurfing and they grew up next to the ocean. Lennart lives in Greece, Naxos. Liam on Gran Canaria and Giulio is from Italy. We asked them about…
At Starboard we are excited to introduce to you the new name for our olympic foiling board. Aligning the name of our new olympic equipment with Starboard’s core values of INNOVATION and QUALITY the iFoil becomes iQFoil. Dear Friends We are so happy to say that at Starboard we are well on our way to…
This video traces the amazing year of Sarah-Quita Offringa from Pozo, Gran Canaria until the ultimate 2019 Mercedes-Benz Aloha Classic on Maui where she was crowned 2019 Wave World Champion. Video by Julien Bru.
The World Cup in New Caledonia is finished and we have a 2019 Slalom World Champion – Big congrats to Delphine Cousin Questel! Also congrats to Matteo Iachino Ita-140 for becoming Vice World Champion! Check out an interview with Delphine, Matteo and Lena Erdil. Filmed by PWA World Tour Windsurfing. Words by PWA/Chris Yates:…
We caught up with Jaeger Stone about his injury that happened after the world cup in Sylt. He had a solid season before the accident with winning the wave world cup in Tenerife. Due to his injury, he could not compete in the last wave event of the year in Maui. Hi Jaeger! How…
We are extremely proud and excited to share with all of you the news that the Starboard iQFoil has been selected as the 2024 Olympic Equipment, replacing the RS:X equipment after the 2020 Olympic Games. The iQFoil concept is the fruit of many years of windsurf foiling equipment development, but developing the equipment to running a successful…
At Starboard we are extremely happy to have been able to start a co-operation with the EFPT (European Freestyle Pro Tour) this year and managed to help them make the last two EFPT tour stops Carbon Neutral. We are proud to see the efforts that EFPT puts in to making the events plastic free. …
Sarah-Quita Offringa By winning the 2019 Mercedes-Benz Aloha Classic, Sarah-Quita Offringa becomes the first woman in over two decades to claim the Women’s PWA World Championship, aside from the legendary Moreno twins, who have won women’s wave sailing contests for over 20-years. Offringa started the year with two third places in Gran Canaria and Tenerife,…
Fanny Tysland is a 32-year-old windsurfer from Oslo, Norway. She works as a deputy judge. Her hobbies are windsurfing, skiing, and climbing. She became a mom 7 months ago to a girl, and we did an interview with her about how she combines family life with her big passion for windsurfing. Maybe some inspiration to…
16 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa, known as the Queen of Windsurfing, sent us a short summary from her last months on the road. Test yourself and see if you can keep up with all the traveling. Words by Sarah-Quita: The past 5 months have been so exciting and fun! Here’s a quick recap.…
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…
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…
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…
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/
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Steven Van Broeckhoven and Sarah-Quita Offringa are the winners of the 2019 PWA Freestyle World Cup in Fuerteventura! The week was filled with action every day on the water. Sarah-Quita ends the 2019 freestyle tour with her 12th Freestyle World Title! Also on the podium, we have the dutch Vice World Champion Maaike Huvermann and Oda Johanne…
The Team behind Canvas Hove sent us an update about their brand new project in Arendal, Norway. “We have opened Norway’s first surfing center ever! On stunningly beautiful Canvas Hove in Arendal, Miriam Rasmussen will run her clinics from early May to late October each year. Next to the brand new glamping-site, Canvas…
Martin Møller Hovda is a young slalom sailor from Norway. You will find him fighting with the big boys in the PWA Slalom World Tour. He recently became the 2019 European Slalom Champion in Paros. He sent us an update from a week of racing and his best result so far in his career. …
Bjorn Dunkerbeck racing in the famous race at Le Defi with 1200 other windsurfers. Cool clip with the legend of windsurfing.
Update from Robert Hofmann´s last Speed Competition: “l just won the 2019 “Gran Canaria Dunkerbeck Worldwide Speed Challenge”, that was on during the DEFI WIND event in France. With a speed of 40,21 knots on a 500-meter run, I was the fastest in the World the days the challenge was on! I used a Severne…
Twan Verseput (26 years old) is a Dutch speed sailor and a man to watch for the future. Read his story below: For me, windsurfing started on a small lake in Holland around 7-8 years ago. I did flat water sailing a few times every month next to my main sport volleyball back then. Windsurfing…
Great video of the sisters Marina and Blanca Alabau foiling in the PWA World Cup in Korea. They are sisters who support each other on and off the water, and at the same time compete with each other. Great duo to push their limits on the water. The Spanish sisters are two of the best…
Siam Images: “A quick edit from my trip to Morocco in April to shoot Boujmaa, thanks for the opportunity, what an amazing stay! Hope you like it! Stay tuned, there will be more soon.
Lovely Holiday – Part 2 Sarah-Quita Offringa’s and Oda Johanne’s alter egos: “After Brazil, Beatrice wanted to take her sailing to the next level and traveled to Bonaire to train. Her good friend Magdalena sees how beautiful Bonaire is, and how much Beatrice has improved and decides to surprise her in paradise. Together they…
Jaeger Stone: “Spring in Maui. Managed to collect some footage over my last 2 weeks in Maui. We didn’t get many swells while I was there but it was windy and fun to go windsurfing nearly every day.” Camera: Carla Aerial Video Maui Jace Panebianco Georgia Schofield Diana Wood Si Crowther Marcus Friedrich Media Music:…
PWA World Cup Video From Day 2 in Japan: Kiran Badloe leads the men foil rankings after the first races of the season. In the Women watch the epic battle between Delphine Cousin Questel & Marina Alabau who are tied after 4 races. Gear used: Foil 177 and Starboard Race Foil.
Rob Hofmann tells us about his experience at the SEVERNE/STARBOARD Center on Fuerteventura. “In 2019 I went back for the sixth time to hold my Windsurfing Clinic in Fuerteventura at the Rene Egli Windsurfing Center. The nearby Hotel Melia (only 200m walking distance) makes this location the perfect place for my clinics. This year I…
Impressive freestyle level Lennart Neubauer! This 15-year-old boy is getting better and better every session. He is sailing on the Starboard Flare 87 liter. Perfect board for kids and lighter riders. Filmed by Kuma Movie.
Awesome video of the legend Bjorn Dunckerbeck who´s pushing his limits in speed sailing. Video by: Pep Bonet.
PWA Report: The 2019 Marignane PWA Slalom World Cup proved to be a true test of patience and mental resolve for the world’s best sailors as they were forced to wait much of the week for the wind to finally play ball. Reigning world champion – Delphine Cousin Questel – made absolutely no mistakes in…
Words by Phil Soltysiak: OBX-Wind – North Americas biggest, and fastest growing windsurfing competition once again delivered the goods! With 300 people registered for long distance racing, Slalom racing, freestyle, and clinics, it was a busy week. I flew in from Hood River, Oregon, to Raleigh, North Carolina with my girlfriend Kelsey. We rented a…
“Sarah-Quita Offringa was pushed all the way by vice-world champion – Maaike Huvermann, who became the first woman in 11 years to win a heat against Offringa on the PWA Freestyle World Tour, but eventually it was still the 11-time Freestyle World Champion who would walk away from Bonaire as the event champion. Having not…
Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt is currently on Bonaire to train for the upcoming PWA Freestyle World Cup, starting 9th of April. On a light wind day, she went foiling with the Severne Mach2 7.8, Foil177 and Race Foil. This is a video about learning the foiling gybe. Oda tells us it was easier for…
Hi Dudu Levi! Welcome to the team! Can you tell us about your windsurfing life? Thanks! I’m very happy to be part of the Starboard Team! I started to windsurf when I was 16 years old, with some of my friends. I joined their summer vacation so I could try their coolest hobby! By the…
Amazing video from the Redbull Storm Chase. Our team riders Jaeger Stone and Philip Köster won the 1st and 2nd place in the most extreme windsurfing competition on the planet. Epic storm windsurfing looks even better in slow-motion! Video by Red Bull.
The 2019 RedBull Storm Chase winner Jaeger Stone reports from the most extreme windsurfing contest on the planet: “The RedBull Storm Chase Crew were monitoring the weather and were in contact with most of the riders more than 1 week out from when it was called on. There was a lot of weather activity but…
Pascal Lefebvre reports: The 1st official Vietnam Fun Cup was held in 2000 in a sleepy little fishing town which was blessed with wind. This small town has turned into one of the most popular water sports destinations in Asia. The Fun Cup event has grown in popularity and skill level. This year was something…
Robert Hofmann gave his first clinic of the year in the Philippines. The venue for his foil clinic was Anilao in the Batangas region, just two hours driving south of Manila. Anilao is a historical place for windsurfing in the Philippines. This is where windsurfing was practised long before Boracay was known. It’s the venue…
Our team rider Oda Johanne from Norway did a beach clean up with her friends during her training weeks in Brazil. “We were 2 months in Jericoacoara, Brazil to windsurf. When we went to the lagoon we found a place right outside the main streets full of plastic. My friends said yes to join a…
Sarah-Quita Offinga went to Japan to take part in the race at Defi Wind. Read her report: The first Défi Wind Japan was a success! I’m really happy I was invited for this event in Miyako-Jima. A lot of people will say they have been to Tokyo… But when will you ever get the chance…
Matteo Iachino went to Australia to take part in Starboard and Severne´s photoshoots. In between “work” he was surfing and improving his racing and wave skills. The 2019 season is about to kick off, and Matteo will be fighting for the top spots in the PWA Slalom Tour in 2019. Enjoy the clip! Filmed by…
Our Team Manager, Martin Ferrand, made a short clip from “behind the scenes” and reports: “Starboard´s annual photo shoot in February was a total B-L-A-S-T. Amazing experience to organise the photo and video shoot in Australia with some of the best windsurfers in the world. Thank you so much Team Tiki!”
Matteo Iachino is looking forward to the upcoming race season. He already scored his first event win at the Lancelin Ocean Classic beginning of this year. Sails: Severne Mach2. Board: Starboard iSonic. Two Goat Media followed Matteo to one of the most beautiful bays in Western-Australia and came back with this amazing clip.
Welcome to the Dream Team Steven Van Broechoven. What are you most excited about as a new Starboard member? My contract with JP came to an end, so it was time for something new. I´m happy that Starboard welcomed me in their dream team. Starboard is a great brand, always in for innovation and has…
The video we have all been waiting for is online! Our foil designer, Tiesda You, explains everything behind the design. Very helpful if you struggle to find out which foil you should get. Enjoy the clip, and let´s fly! More info about our foil range here: https://starboardfoils.com/pages/overview-2019
Women´s windsurfing has exploded last years. The level has never been higher and for the first time, PWA World Tour had a few “only women´s” events. Our female team riders; Sarah-Quita Offringa, Delphine Cousin, Maaike Huvermann, Oda Johanne and Lena Erdil did a Q&A session. If you are interested in “how to carry your foil”…
Watch this amazing short documentary about 15 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa. Contains clips from her childhood, how she started windsurfing and how she wants to show the world that women can be great windsurfers. A “must see” video produced by ESPN. To watch the video, click on the link above.
Watch a session of the two World Cup freestyle windsurfers Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt. Board: 2019 Starboard Flare. Spot: Lagoa Grande, Brazil.
This is how it looks like when Jaeger Stone is testing if his ankle is okay after his injury. It looks alright! He is totally ripping on his Starboard UltraKode. Great video filmed by Two Goat. Location: Australia.
Boujmaa Guilloul talks about his love for the ocean. A great clip of amazing wave riding and wise words. Film and edit by Tom Deburchgrave.
Sarah-Quita Offringa reports from her windsurfing trip to Brazil: Hey all, I’m back in Aruba after a bomb 2,5 weeks in Brasil. It’s the second year in a row that I travelled there, and it lived up to its expectations again. The sunsets are still magical, the people are so welcoming and friendly, there’s music…
BrightVibes UK: “Amazing how upcycled discarded fishing nets contribute to cleaner oceans and help surfers win medals!” For more information, watch the video.
A quick update from the 2018 Vice World Champion Matteo Iachino: “Hello everyone! After the World Cup in Sylt, I’m taking some time to recharge my batteries. I ´m looking forward to another great season in 2019. I’ve been relaxing at home and been enjoying some great wave sessions this autumn! The Mediterranean sea has been delivering good wind…
Beatrice used to be one of the tourists that would come to Jeri to just enjoy the caipirinha’s and watch the windsurfers sail into the sunset. Until one day she was very curious to find out what the fuss was about this windsurfing and why these windsurfers would spend hours and hours on the…
Azores Windsurf-Foil Open Challange took place from the 6th to 10th of November 2018, at Praia Da Vitoria, Terceira islands, Azores. Our team riders did some really good sailing and Sebastian Kördel and Delphine went home with 1st place in the men´s and women´s racing. Sebastian Kördel after the event: “I´m super happy to…
Great action from our team rider Taty Frans, who went sailing with his friend Amado Vrieswijk at their home spot on Bonaire in the Caribbean. The 2019 Flare seems to work great for Taty´s big air moves. Pure joy to watch this clip. Filmed by Kuma Movie.
The 42 x World Champion Björn Dunkerbeck has been in the windsurfing game for a long time. He is still pushing his limits to the max, now in speed sailing. He´s currently in Namibia at the Luderitz Speed Challenge. His goal is to reach a top speed of 100 km/h. His top speed now is 53.37 knots…
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Boujmaa Guilloul just finished the International Windsurfing Tour with an overall 2nd place. An impressive result from the Moroccan wave windsurfer. Through the season he got 3rd in Morocco, 1st in Oregon, 3rd in Mexico and 5th on Maui. How was your year in the IWT? IWT tour was as fun…
When a tourist goes sailing in Brazil. Check out Oda Johanne´s 3rd episode of “My South American Diary – Tourist Sailing” Follow Oda Johanne on YouTube here.
Sarah-Quita Offringa just released her new video from her training in Brazil last year. Really impressive moves from the 11 x freestyle World Champion.
The young and talented Japanese windsurfer, Tomonori Anami, became the 2018 PWA Foil Youth Champion. He is 21 years old and studies Sports Science at the University of Kagoshima. We took a quick word with the young man about his windsurfing life. How was your season? This year, I became PWA Foil Youth World Champion.…
The next two months, Oda Johanne will be windsurfing in South America. Follow her new YouTube series: “My South American Diary” every week on YouTube. The first video is from her first session in Jericoacoara, Brazil. Follow Oda Johanne by clicking here.
We have had great success for years with our dedicated slalom boards – the iSonic´s. Plenty of testing, new designs and shapes make the iSonic a winning board. We have asked some of our Team Riders to tell us what they think about the iSonic. Sarah-Quita Offringa The boards I have been using this year are…
2018 has been a year for the books. A year where the foiling discipline had the first official World Title. After a year, travelling around the world competing, training and working with the development in Starboard foiling, Gonzalo Costa Hoevel could finally call himself the first PWA Foil World Champion. The man from Argentina, who…
The 2018 season just finished after the last event in Sylt. It´s been a great year for our whole team and some really exciting competitions. All the hard work from everyone at the office in Thailand to our riders all around the world are the reason we have reach so many goals. We are proud…
We asked some of the freestyle team riders to tell us about the Starboard Flare board. Here is what they said: Julian Wiemar The Flare is my perfect all-round freestyle board. I only need two different sizes (93 and 103) and I can freestyle in any kind of conditions around the world. At home, in…
Martin Møller Hovda is 19-year-old slalom windsurfer from Norway and one of the youngest PWA riders on tour. He lives for the sport and has big dreams of winning a PWA World Cup. Read the interview we did with him. Born, raised, age? Born 12th of October 1998 on an island called Karmøy. It´s…
Continentseven caught up with Iballa Moreno to speak about her victory at the 2018 PWA Tenerife Wave World Cup, surfing, SUP, her board and fin setup, idols and another wave world title. Filmed by Kerstin Rieger and questions from Chris Pressler.
Jaeger Stone ripping at Pozo during the 2018 Gran Canaria PWA World Cup. Amazing jump skills and super wave riding. Board: UltraKode
Erik Hakman is one of the best Swedish freestyle windsurfers. The 29-year-old Nordic loves to spin and pop around at Fiskeback, his favourite home spot near Gothenburg. He loves freestyle windsurfing at this beautiful spot, which is surrounded by huge rocks and little islands off the coast. Erik also loves to teach and motivated a…
Chris Pressler is a well-known name in the windsurfing community. He has spent a big part of his life windsurfing and competing. He is one of the persons behind the website www.continentseven.com and has shared windsurfing news, moves and clips to the whole world for many years. We had a chat with him about work,…
“West Coast” is a video about my training in Sweden last week. Follow me to stay up to date about my travels, coaching clinics and World Cup competitions. For more info: www.odajohanne.com
Sarah-Quita Offringa has had an amazing time on tour so far finishing every contest on the podium. Read her update below: Woah. This year is coming together nicely. I just made it back to the Netherlands and am looking back on 3 months of competition with a big smile on my face. I decided…
Nice drone shots of Rob Hofmann. Looks like he has been foiling a lot. This is from a foiling session in Vindicio (Latina).
“After finishing the slalom World Cup in June this year I decided that this would be a good time to really improve my competitive wave sailing and do all the Wave Worldcup events in the Canaries this year. Gran Canaria and more specifically Pozo was always the event that I feared the most with its…
After some intense and windy days on Fuerteventura, the 2018 freestyle tour is finished for the women, while the men will still compete in Sylt. Read what our freestyle Dream Team had to say after the World Cup. Sarah-Quita Offringa So after some wave sailing in mental conditions in Pozo, we were treated to…
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25 minutes of action, interviews and behind the scenes from Pozo. Make sure you watch to the end for some nice wipeouts. Great sailing by the Starboard Team! Philip Köster and Daida Moreno won the event. Sarah-Quita Offringa got 2nd place and Iballa Moreno 3rd place. Really strong sailing from all of them. Jeager…
Pozo Izquierdo delivered more wind and waves for the final day of the aptly named Gran Canaria Wind & Waves Festival to deliver a fitting end to what has been an epic event. The last day was billed as Super Saturday with only the men’s and women’s finals left to run and it lived up…
Starboard will release a new video every day introducing a new board from our 2019 range. Stay tuned. This video is the 2019 Starboard Highlights video.
This year’s Gran Canaria Wind & Waves Festival marks the 30th anniversary of PWA World Cups in Pozo Izquierdo and by the look of the forecast it’s going to be one you are not going to forget about for a long time with trademark howling winds and waves predicted for the duration of the event,…
Update from Lena Erdil´s foil training: “Finally, I had time to play with my Starboard Race Foil and I was lucky to have my teammate Tristan Algret in Bodrum. He gave me some foil tuning tips! I’m sharing what I learned so far here in this Vlog… The most important change was swapping my 330cm…
This is what Team Starboard is doing every weekend after a busy week at the office. Everyone from the HeadQuarter (brand manager, marketing, graphic designer, product manager etc.) is trying and testing our future boards, no matter the level. It helps us to get different feedback so we can work on making the best boards…
From now on, Starboard will post a picture of you every day. Use the hashtag #tikihero, and be our next TikiHero on Instagram. We are looking for photos of our customers, who are addicted to windsurfing. It can be people who are passionate about speed, wave riding, free riding, freestyle, slalom, foiling or cruising around…
The World Cup in Portugal is finished and we have 7 out of 9 riders on the podium. We have officially a 2018 Slalom World Champion! Congrats to Delphine Cousin. In the men´s slalom, Matteo Iachino sailed into a strong 1st place after 7 eliminations. Sarah-Quita Offringa and Lena Erdil got a 2nd and 3rd…
Ben Proffit shows you the inside of the PWA World Cup in Portugal! So far we have the top 3 freestyle ladies on the Starboard Flare and the top 3 slalom ladies on the iSonic. Matteo Iachino is also leading the men´s slalom! What a dream team we have!
Straight Outta Fiskeback Media brings you a compilation edit from Swedish pro rider Erik Hakman. Featuring pre-season freestyle windsurfing at the Greek windsurfing hot-spot Laguna Beach Park, on the Island of Naxos. This is D.A.X.
Sarah-Quita Offringa: “Dushi Aruba <3 What a treat again with non-stop wind for weeks on end. This particular session, the wind just dropped when Quincy and I hit the water, and then came back full force when we came off the water! Nonetheless, it was a sweet sesh! I can’t believe I’ve been sailing at…
Gonzalo Costa Hoevel from Argentina has been in the racing game for many years. The last weeks he has been competing in the PWA World Cup in Japan and South Korea. He won the Foil World Cup in Japan, which got him closer to his dream of becoming Foil World Champion. Read the interview with…
Words by Iballa Moreno: Together we can reduce single-use plastics and make a lasting impact. Did you know that a Trillion plastics bags are used worldwide every year? Did you know that nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute? Did you know 9 Million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean…
Enjoy the great Le Defi & Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge cut by Red Bull! You can also be part of this challenges! Take your gear, your phone and follow the instructions at https://goo.gl/MxHWC2
“GET SHIT DONE” It refers to the life of a windsurfer without a coach, manager or any other system that tells you what to do, when to work out, when to book tickets, how to find sponsors and how to make a living. We are our own coaches, managers and time planners. So to get…
Watch this video about what a professional racing windsurfer does for living! Inspiring new video from our World Champion Matteo Iachino! We wish Matteo good luck for the first PWA World Cup in Japan! Starting in a few days!
Lena Erdil: “Nimet Tulumen and I arrived in Japan a few days early to give ourselves time to get rid of the jet lag and tune into life in Miura. To help us beat the jet lag we got greeted by winds gusting over 40 knots! Watch us struggle as we arrive in Japan…. 2…
For the Windsurfers of tomorrow. This is the future of windsurfing: aspirational, exhilarating, fast and furious. Suitable for men, women, boys and girls – and it’s here NOW, ready to go! Gender equality and youth appeal are two of the key issues for any Olympic sport – Wind Foiling has both. Action and comments:…
The foil adventure starts at 5 knots. Watch Gonzalo Costa Hoevel fly on the Starboard Formula 177, the Starboard Race foil and the Severne HyperGlide 9.0. Video: Rémi Vila Edit: Marco Carasso Location : Jombtien
This is Windsurf Perfection! The many times World Champion Daida Moreno is showing us perfect stalled forwards, takas, wave360´s, backloops and great wave riding! This is Daida´s winter training sessions so far in 2018 on Gran Canaria, Pozo Izquierdo. Video by Saltydrops.
Fiona Wylde is a true water girl. She loves SUP races, SUP wave riding, windsurfing, foiling and surfing! She is young, talented and has a soul that will get you inspired to have fun on the water! Read the interview we had with our team rider. Enjoy! How did you get introduced to…
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Tristan Algret and his friends had a really good time this winter in Guadeloupe on the aqualodge! Kind of a little house on the water!
Lena Erdil went to Morocco to compete in the PWA World Cup Wave. Check out her new vlog and a quick interview about the spot. First time in Morocco, first time in Morocco for the PWA Wave event. Only girls. We saw a lot of amazing shots of characteristics places. How was the…
Our Rider of the Week is Sebastian Kördel from Germany. He is a well known name in the slalom racing. He loves the iSonic and his Mercedes Sprinter. Lives in Tarifa and dreams of becoming World Champion. Read the interview we did with this talented racing machine below. How did you get introduced…
Day 7: Iballa Moreno Crowned Champion of the First Ever PWA World Cup in Morocco After Windless Final Day. Words by PWA, Chris Yates. The women’s wave fleet met at 09:30am (GMT+1) on the final morning of the 2018 Morocco PWA World Cup for the skippers’ meeting, but with mast high waves and…
International Windsurfing Tour in Moulay, Morocco! With a large swell and high wind forecast for Day 5 of the event window, anticipation levels were high. Riders would not be disappointed. Light offshore winds in the morning meant the waiting game was on. Around mid-day the winds had clocked around enough and strengthened to a point…
Latina in Italy has delivered some fun days on the water for Rob Hofmann. He enjoyed wave sailing on his Starboard UltraKode and a drone was following him to capture the action!
Lena Erdil: “Finally some quality wave sessions in Lanzarote! Just before I had to leave for a new adventure, we scored 2 days of great conditions at Jameos del Agua. Sailing only with few people! In this weeks Vlog I featured action from Philip Köster, Noah Vocker, Tristan Algret and Timo Mullen. If you watch…
Tristan Algret is a great slalom sailor. A young man with big dreams. He trains really hard to become the best. Most of all he enjoys his time surrounded by friends and family. We had a word with the slalom sailor who is in love with waves. Read the interview below. How did…
Maaike Huvermann spent some windy weeks in Vietnam lately. Looks like she is ready to start the season. She improved a lot and has some amazing skills on the water. Look at her perfect skopus, burners and culos! Follow Maaikes´s Facebook by clicking here.
«A Windsurfer´s Dream» The video is about my journey from a life playing handball, studying and living in Norway, to become a professional windsurfer traveling the world searching for wind! Thanks to Tom Deburchgrave for the filming and editing. It was great doing this video project together in Cape Town during a few sessions on…
The 14 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa have been home on Aruba for some weeks now. It´s been windy every day! Great skills doing power moves on both tacks!
We are proud to have such a young and talented athlete like Liam Dunkerbeck in our team. Son of 42 x World Champion Björn Dunkerbeck, the 13 year old boy got on board very early. In Starboard we see the importance of getting kids into windsurfing as early as possible. We have a new board…
Few questions to Tristan Algret about life, food and windsurf…
The Lanzarote Pro Training and PRO-AM event just finished. It´s been busy weeks for Lena Erdil. Here is a little recap of what´s been going on.
You have all heard about him. The man with 42 x World Titles. We took a quick word with the living legend, Björn Dunkerbeck to see what he is up to! Read the interview below. How did you get introduced to windsurfing? My parents learned windsurfing in Denmark in 1976. Then they moved…
Watch Boujmaa´s latest video, called “Imperfection”. The Moroccan wave rider Boujmaa Guilloul rides big waves at his home spot Moulay Bouzerktoune.
Iballa Moreno is one of the best windsurfers in the world. Iballa shows us a good example of using 5 minutes to clean up the beach from plastic and other trash after a session on the water. Be inspired by our cool team rider and do the same at your beach! Say NO to plastic…
Come on board with the French foil windsurfer Thomas Lequesne! He is foiling on the Starboard Race Foil and iSonic 127 liter.
Lena Erdil just arrived on Lanzarote. She´s following the Lanzarote PRO slalom training. Watch her Vlog for plenty of slalom action in probably the most difficult conditions she has ever sailed in! Follow Lena´s Vlogs by clicking here.
14 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa spent one week on Bonaire and managed to score some good freestyle conditions!
Interview by Chris Yates, PWA World Tour: Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt has enjoyed a quick rise through the windsurfing ranks. The Norwegian only made her debut in 2013 – where she finished 5th overall in Fuerteventura. Since then the 28-year-old has rapidly established herself as one of the best female freestylers in the world –…
Boujmaa Guilloul on fire! He published a new video with his latest wave action from Maui and his home spot Moulay Bouzertoune in Morocco. Expect to see big stalled forwards, big arched backloops and radical off the lip moves. Enjoy!
Sarah-Quita Offringa has spent a few days on Bonaire. She went for an evening session yesterday, and KUMA movie was there to document her impressive skills on the water. Got to love those evening sessions in the Caribbean!
Starboard Blue headed to Myanmar to catch up on environmental. On the agenda: Mangroves, drone planting, marine litter and a special meeting with head of UN Environment. Here is a recap of what went down. The Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park, where Starboard is involved with mangrove reforestation, is planning to up its efficiency…
We can finally announce that Starboard is now a certified B-Corporation. B-Corp is a community of companies using their business as a force for good. Starboard is proud to take part in a movement to change the industry standard. Let’s not only compete to be the best in the world, but the best FOR the…
Before sunrise, tired eyes saw the Starboard iSonic slalom board range taking an early gamble on the wind conditions. You guessed it: “The 19th Jibes Fun Cup” is about to begin. All forecasts point to some of the most serious riding conditions in the history of this two day event. Not to be deterred most competitors…
A DAY ON BOARD is a short film of Flo Jung during his recent trip to South Africa. Most of the footage is filmed with the new Drone Typhoon H. Enjoy the ride. Follow Flo Jung´s web page by clicking here. Filmed by: Pierre Bouras, Julian Robinet, Mikael Linder. Music by: Ben Cocks
Big waves for Lena Erdil this day in South Africa! After waking up at 5am to get the best conditions, it´s all worth it when you get a day like this! Follow Lena´s Vlogs by clicking here.
The search for wind, waves and uncrowded spots continues for Lena Erdil. She is in South Africa, and the coast is full of different spots. In this Vlog she went up the west coast. Follow Lena´s Vlogs by clicking here.
Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne are both training in South Africa at the moment. Check out a short clip filmed from a session they had together in Rietvlei. It´s all about having fun on the water!
Here we are in 2018 and it’s already going so fast. I just spent 7 weeks at home and at the time, I thought it would be forever, but really, it went by in a flash. I’m already off on my first adventure of the year, and even though it wasn’t my initial…
A summer in West Australia doesn’t go past without the Lancelin Ocean Classic competition. It was the first competition of the year for many riders. With plenty of big names showing up, all eyes where mainly on 4 x Wave World Champion Philip Köster and 7 x LOC winner, local Australian hero, Jeager Stone in…
Iballa Moreno has already scored some great wave sessions in 2018. Check out her new video filmed from Gran Canaria, where she lives and sails almost every day.
Record-breaking conditions in the 82nd Mount Gay Round Barbados Race. One of the biggest heroes of the day was undoubtedly Trevor Hunte, the local who, on his Starboard Phantom Batwing 377 raceboard windsurfer, smashed his own record set in 2016 by just over four minutes with a time of 5h 30m 46s. “I…
We scored some sick sessions in different locations and John Carter seemed stoked with the shots we got! Can’t wait to see the results when Starboard officially starts releasing their 2019 models in August. – Lena Erdil Follow Lena´s Vlogs by clicking here.
Sarah-Quita Offringa with some great wave action from last summer on the Canaries. Stylish loops and push loops combined with excellent riding! Sarah is the queen of windsurfing and is always in the top in all the disciplines: freestyle, slalom and wave! Edit and filming by Markus Rydberg and In To Fire & Water. Follow…
I was invited to the 2019 Starboard Photoshoot in Western Australia! Going to Australia has been a dream for a long time, so I’m super stoked about this trip! 10 days of going to different spots with the team and shooting different boards at different locations. Unfortunately I´m of course not allowed to show any…
Freestyle Vice World Champion, Maaike Huvermann, spent some amazing weeks in Brazil. She improved her skills every session. Here is an action packed video showing plenty of power moves. Edit by Alex Mertens.
This new Vlog has finally got some windsurf action. It was an amazing experience sailing with dolphins. Thanks to Jaco Wolmarans for filming and catching an uncrowded Sunset Beach session the other morning! Right now I´m on my way to take part of the Starboard photo shoot in Australia. So keep following my…
Starboard’s first and only wind foil center in Dubai, offers windsurfers of all levels the chance to try hydro foiling. The center has the best and latest gear from Starboard windsurfing and Severne sails. Crystal clear flat water, with 8-12 knots of wind, makes the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, the number one wind foiling spot in…
We had a chat with our talented team rider Lennart Neubauer. He is only 13 years old and can already do most of the moves in freestyle windsurfing. You just competed in the PWA Youth Almerimar. How was the competition? Was it just fun or also some nerves involved? The competition worked out really…
With a rainy forecast on the West Coast, Catarina Stenta and I, decided to head South to the Cape of Good Hope in search of some wind and waves! Arriving there we were the only car in the carpark. After some initial hesitations we decided to rig and go. Maybe not the best conditions…
Watch Oda Johanne defying gravity on her 2018 Starboard Flare in Brazil. 2,5 months of EPIC time in South America. Watch her latest clip here. Follow Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt on her blog by clicking here.
Let’s be frank, we have a global plastic pollution problem. 8 million tons of it to be exact! What are we going to do about it? Starboard has taken the lead in offsetting the impacts of the plastic used in its business by creating the first Plastic Offset Program (POP) in coordination with the…
After my injury beginning of October, I’m happy to be back on the water and prepare myself for the upcoming season. Although my foot isn’t 100% yet, I’m more than happy to be out there and get a couple of hours of sailing every day! During this trip to Gnaraloo we scored a lot of…
After seven years spent in the Starboard Dream Team, Daniel Bruch says good bye. And it’s been an amazing time working together for all these years. We wish him the best of luck in his new ventures! Watch his latest clip, including old, unreleased footage of the testing and shaping of the Quads, Black…
Hi All, It’s been a long 2017 journey. It started great and I was getting into the racing/slalom vibe. Unfortunately I got into a collision in Fuerteventura that put me out for the rest of the PWA and windsurfing season. Mentally it was harder than physically. I knew I was badly injured. Getting…
The 2017 Vice World Champion, Delphine Cousin, sent us an update about her year and future plans. “I had a great year of slalom racing this year. After a slow start in Asia, where the events were not really windy, we finished the year perfectly with a lot of wind in Denmark and New Caledonia.…
“While picking up my 2018 boards, I had a chance to visit the Starboard headquarters in Thailand and get a little peak at what’s in store for us! What I love most about Starboard, besides the fact that they make the fastest boards, is the importance they place on being environmentally friendly and finding ways…
Come on board with Björn Dunkerbeck! Who wants to go for a speed run in the channel of Luderitz?
Baja in Mexico looks like a lot of fun! Watch this video where Fiona Wylde is doing SUP, windsurfing and foiling. She is a big talent in all the different water disciplines and she enjoys spending time on the water. Follow Fiona Wylde on her social media by clicking here.
In the Starboard Dream Team are many talented riders with great success over the years. What’s their biggest motivation in windsurfing? Is it the progress, the traveling, the the fame or to score an epic session with their best friends? Read as the pros answer below: Sarah-Quita Offringa: “What I love most about…
You have heard his name, read about him in the magazines or seen him on the podium during the PWA World Cup. He became World Champion in 2016 and Vice World Champion this season. We had a quick word with our top team rider Matteo Iachino and asked him about his 2017 season. “The…
Lena Erdil sent us this video where a drone is following some of the PWA races from the girls. These amazing clips were filmed during the last event of the year in New Caledonia. It is a true paradise for windsurfing with great wind and beautiful water colors. If you wondered how it really looks…
Right at the end of my freestyle trip in Brazil, I received a shocker of an e-mail. It was Thursday the 2nd November 2017 when the PWA broke the news to me: “ Hi Sarah-Quita, unfortunately we have made a mistake and it seems that you have not yet won the PWA Slalom World Title”. …
Twenty years ago, the talented Moreno Twins started to compete on the PWA World Tour. It’s impressive that they have won 27 x World Titles between 1999 and today. And they are still pushing their limits with huge jumps and incredible wave riding. Enjoy the video and follow the Moreno Twins on Facebook by clicking…
“The first time I came to New Caledonia, my friend Tiffany told me about this magic place called Poe. She eventually took me there for a camping trip with her crew. It is truly a magical place. The colors in the lagoon are truly some of the best I have ever seen. Sailing here, you…
A few weeks ago in Luderitz, Namibia, the conditions came together and allowed Roberto Hofmann and Twan Verseput to join the elite circle of the 50 Knots Club. Read more from Rob below: “I started speed sailing just a few years ago. The first time I tried a real speed board was in 2015,…
Starboard team rider Tristan ‘Legs’ Algret shows off his brand-new 2018 iSonics and the Severne Sails Mach 1. Filmed in the beautiful island of Guadeloupe. Images: Bruno Kancel / Aeoroworx Edit: Matteo Nativelle Effects: Asencio Mathias / ChoppyWaters
Day 6: Final Foil Flourish as SQ Offringa and Antoine Albeau are Crowned After five fairly solid windy days in a row, the wind machine, unfortunately, decided to take a slight break on the final day of the 2017 Airwaves Noumea Dream Cup – meaning that the rankings for the slalom remain unchanged from overnight.…
From Trash to Sidewalk “At first glance, a surfboard has nothing in common with a paving stone. But we found a connection. It’s no secret that producing anything creates waste in some form. And in the case of surf boards and windsurf boards, a lot of that waste is leftover foam dust created from turning…
SeaYou Dubai have been given the green light to become Starboard Windsurfing’s first official foil center. It will be the first fully-fledged windfoil center in the world. Starboard Foil Center – Dubai Before the launch, Starboard Windsurfing’s brand manager and lead foil designer Tiesda You was quoted, saying: “Flying over the sea without a…
Part IV – Canary Islands and Western Australia Jaeger Stone just put together a couple of leftover clips from the Canaries and from a weekend trip to Gnaraloo, Western Australia. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Camera: Carla, Ben Proffitt, Tom Music: Grinspoon – Overdriver
Karo van Tonder sent us a nice report from her latest adventures. New records have been set and this lady is on a mission. Read the full story below. I have been very privileged to represent my country and the African continent at the Luderitz World Speed records from the 4th of November…
Team riders Oda, Maaike and Sarah-Quita all planned their winter training together in Brazil this year. As a result, they spent quite some time together sailing Jericoacoara and its lagoons. The girls have pushed each other hard on the water and produced this little #overdramatic freestyle clip featuring mad forwards, pushloops, kono’s, skopu’s and more,…
“So far, the year of 2017 has been a great season for me as a professional windsurfer. I had three podiums out of five PWA Slalom World Cup events. And I’m fighting for the PWA World Champion title for the third year in a row with only one event to go. Since our life…
A short but action-packed edit of a windsurfing trip in Java with Florian Jung, Leon Jaemer and Camille Juban.
Ten Days of Almost Non-stop Action Sees 3 New World Champions Crowned The 2017 Mercedes-Benz Sylt PWA World Cup certainly delivered with action on almost every single day across four disciplines – foil, wave, freestyle and slalom – making it one of the most successful events in Sylt for many seasons. Over the course of…
The fin markings on some 2018 A.I.R. FreeWave 83 and 103 may not be in the correct position, thus confusing customers and not allowing the boards and riders to showcase their full potential. Below are the correct recommended fin positions for these two models: As with all our wave boards, these fin boxes…
“The past summer on the Canaries was really good again. I didn’t get as much filmed as I hoped but in the end, we got enough to put this little clip together. No scenery, just action from pretty much the first till the last second! Hope you like it and gets you ready for your…
Yes!!! Let’s make slalom great again! What a week I’ve just spent in Denmark. It’s been a while since we managed to complete so many rounds in such a huge range of conditions. Driving down from Norway I already heard rumours about this storm that would come through the area. That got me a bit…
This summer, I posted an Instagram story of my dripping wet rig resting in the parking lot after a lit day on the water. The text overlay read “Sick Day!” I received a response saying, “I’m going to interpret my employment contract sick days as meaning this.” I immediately envisioned the story-line for a short…
What a fantastic weekend! The West Coast edition of the #StraightOuttaFiskeback Junior Freestyle Camp came to a close last Sunday, and after three days and about 20 hours of non-stop wind you better believe there were some sore hands among the 20 riders that took part in what might have been the most incredible coaching…
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…
“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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In memory of my brother Cesar Vandamme… Ride in peace bro! #salechantal A short video clip of Tristan Algret, professional windsurfer on the PWA World Tour during a trip to his native island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies in June 2017.
Dany Bruch has been training hard all winter. And it’s obvious he is more than ready for the first PWA event of 2017!
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…
In this tutorial you’ll learn how you can achieve your first foiling jibe, both in light and strong wind. Let’s start by dividing the jibe into three sections: Initiation, switching the stance and shifting the sail. The jibe on the foil will feel completely different than the jibe on the fin.
We welcome Catarina to the Starboard family! She will be riding our windsurf boards and race on the Starboard SUP boards. Read Catarina´s press release: This past 2020 has been a challenging year for me with lots of uncertainty and some up and downs. Lots of plans changes and difficulties to plan anything but it…
Hey, Okay I get it, Here several story that you can choose. Do not hesitate to change some sentences or words I m not sure that it s well said. • I m Coraline Foveau, 21yo and as I have the advantage to do studies at home I m never at home ahaha…
Ultimately, many of the materialistic items we own do come to an end of life. It is known that the surf industry is a huge polluter towards our natural environment. Starboard wants to take action on this. Yes, we can work on what goes into our boards. Whereas on the other hand, what can we…
When Starboard released what they called, “Our easiest foil ever”, the “SuperCruiser”, we heard that there was actually a top-secret new design of foil board in the works too. Starboard’s head of brand and design, Tiesda You, gives us the lowdown on both their new 2020 Foil X board and SuperCruiser foil. From Windsurf Magazine:…
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