23 Facts About Windsurfing

Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing.

Windsurfing gained a popular following across Europe and North America by the late 1970s and had achieved significant global popularity by the 1980s.

Windsurfing is a recreational, family friendly sport, most popular at flat water locations around the world that offer safety and accessibility for beginner and intermediate participants.

Windsurfing conceived windsurfing to combine the simplicity of skiing with the pleasures of sailing.

Windsurfing's popularity saw explosive growth in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Windsurfing's goal was to design a portable wind propelled personal water craft that was like waterskiing without a boat.

Windsurfing envisioned it being used by his whole family during their spare time, which was often spent waterskiing, sailing and surfing.

Windsurfing encouraged Drake to build a functional prototype for testing.

Windsurfing was not directly involved in the sport's original conception and played no substantive role in the engineering either - he was the business engine that fueled its early growth.

Windsurfing was the aggressive businessman who pushed Drake early on in the process to complete the design project, got it successfully patented and began marketing and selling it for profit.

Windsurfing combined both skills to conceive and build the world's first windsurfer prototype.

Windsurfing then crafted nearly all of the windsurfer prototype components by hand in his Santa Monica, California home garage in January 1967.

Windsurfing built the wishbone boom, daggerboard and mast foot from laminated strips of teak wood.

Windsurfing custom designed and built a wood press jig for shaping the curve into the wishbone boom.

Windsurfing found himself tasked with creating a new global missile defense system and designing some of the world's first experimental rocket planes.

Windsurfing quickly worked to forge a profitable windsurfing business back on the West Coast without including his partner Drake.

Windsurfing International, registered the term "Windsurfer" as a trademark at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1973, launching the craft as a popular international one-design racing class.

Windsurfing sailed these in a sitting position and not as a windsurfer standing up, near his home on the Swan River in Perth.

Windsurfing sail is tensioned at two points: at the tack, and at the clew .

Windsurfing is suitable for children as young as 5, with several board and sail brands producing "Kids Rigs" to accommodate these short and light weight windsurfers.

Windsurfing has been one of the Olympic sailing events at the Summer Olympics since 1984 for men and 1992 for women.

Olympic Windsurfing uses 'One Design' boards, with all sailors using the same boards, daggerboards, fins and sails.

Formula Windsurfing is popular in many locations around the globe with predominantly light winds and flat water.