WINDSURF MAGAZINE: NEWS BULLETIN
WINDSURF MAGAZINE: NEWS BULLETIN
WINDSURF MAGAZINE: NEWS BULLETIN
TRANSFER NEWS
Well, it was a busy Friday in the transfer market, with breaking news that Women’s PWA Foil Slalom World Champion Justine Lemeteyer has joined Patrik. This move comes shortly after the team also signed Johan Søe. With Lemeteyer and Søe joining forces, Patrik’s race team is shaping up to be a formidable contender on the PWA race circuit in 2025.
Over to the wave scene, we hear that Julian Salmonn has signed up with Naish Windsurfing and will most likely be unleashing his new gear at the Margaret River Windsurfing Wave Classic over in Australia. It won’t be an easy ride for Salmonn as we have reports that Severne riders, Philip Koester and Jaeger Stone will also be in attendance as well as a bunch of hardcore locals such as Scott McKercher! The women’s fleet will also be a big battle with the likes of Aussie ripper Jane Semen going up against Polish wave sailing specialist Justyna Sniady who will be looking to impress on here new Flikka boards.
Hot, Hot news, Blanca Alabau will be racing on WE ONE boards for the 2025 season!
WINTER STORMS
Well, we had a bunch of epic storms in the UK and there were some amazing moments went down at the Bluff in Cornwall as a few brave sailors headed out in the XXL waves produced by Storm Herminia. Well, we thought it was huge until we saw the images of Thomas Traversa and crew over in France where the waves were next level massive.
They did have a Jet Ski to be fair! Traversa was joined by the fastest windsurfer in the world, Antoine Albeau as well as some hardcore French locals who all sailed two different spots on Monday and Tuesday!
The day after the Bluff in Cornwall saw an epic session go down at Marazion in north westerly winds and we will have a full gallery up sometime next week as well as some interesting insights of the day from Andy King and Timo Mullen.
COMPETITION SCENE
INDOOR TOW-IN
Well UK freestyler almost won the two in event at the newly branded FPT Tow-in World Series at the Boot Düsseldorf, only to be pipped at the post by freestyle world champion Lennart Neubauer with the final move of the contest. How unlucky was that! In the women’s competition Maaike Huvermann came out on top ahead of Elena Dominick. There is a video up on the site if anybody is interested!
LANZAROTE
The iQFOiL Class are currently battling it out at the 2025 Lanzarote iQFOiL Games.
When we last checked Emma Wilson was narrowly ahead of Shahar Tibi in the women’s class and in the Men’s Johan Søe was leading from Nicolas Goyard. It sounds like they have had some windy racing and this is the first time they are using the new size sails. Under the newly approved changes, Women and Youth Women will transition from the 8m² sail to a 7.3m² (new design) sail and Men will switch from the 9m² sail to an 8m² (current Women and Youth design) sail.
AROUND THE WORLD
It looks like Maui has been hit by a severe storm with nuclear Kona winds, flooding and possible snow on the mountains. Over in Cape Town Ben Proffitt and Colin Dixon are in full swing with their ‘Send It’ clinics while, Dieter Van Der Eyken and Fin Mellon are about to kick of a week-long course starting Monday. It looks like a decent season down in South Africa if you a prepared to drive to find the wind and waves. Meanwhile down in Cape Verde, it looks like Victor Fernandez has been scoring with non stop wind and waves! The wind continues to blow in the Canary Islands and we heard some of the racers had to switch over to wave sailing this week as nuclear winds hit Tenerife. RRD sail designer John Skye was incredibly unlucky in Gran Canaria and suffered a nasty cut on his foot after a crash while testing. We wish him a speedy recovery!
Up in Cold Hawaii, Marc Pare is back from Cape Town and has been scoring solid waves while testing the latest Simmer wave boards and O’Shea wetsuits!
In warmer waters, Amado Vrieswijk and Taty Frans have been scoring stunning conditions in Bonaire while tuning up their Point 7 equipment for the upcoming season.
PWA CALENDAR
The 2025 PWA tour calendar has just been published and there are quite a few interesting editions to the tour including racing events in Guadeloupe and China! The stalwart Canary Islands racing events are still to be confirmed, while the Youth side of things looks strong with stand-alone racing events lined up for Aruba, Bonaire, Turkey and Miami ,while Denmark will once again host the Youth World Cup for racing and waves. It looks like Tenerife will become a Grand Slam event hosting racing and waves while there will be two events in Maui, albeit one of them a 4 star in April. The 4 star event at Shacks in Puerto Rico also sounds like a tasty edition to the wave tour! The first 5 star PWA / IWT wave event looks to be in Chile on the 24th March to the 6th of April. Remember they scored an epic swell last year for finals day last year!
NEW FEATURES
We have plenty of new features in the pipeline! Marcilio Browne, Victor Fernandez and Marc Pare will talk us through their board quivers, how they set them up and what they ride in different conditions. We have some spicy Windsurfing Dilemmas ready to be unleashed as well as the return of the ‘BIG FIFTY’, if any readers remember our mammoth list of questions, we asked the stars! Ben Proffitt will be one of the first to come under the cosh when he finally gets round to answering. Ooh yes, we also have an epic feature from those braving the conditions provided by Storm Darragh at K-Bay from back in December. Plus, Andy Chambers will tell us all about his twelve seasons at Club Vass! There are a few incriminating photos he sent us which we are still debating whether to publish. Peter Hart is sharpening his pencil to bring us his latest ‘Affairs of the Hart’ ramblings, while we may also have some new technique features from Jem Hall. Anyone prefer Jem to do his technique by video??
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