THE TRANSATLANTIC WINDSURFING RACE 1998

Over the next few months we will share a few epic windsurfing movies from the past! If you have never seen this video from the 1998 TransAtlantic Windsurfing race then this is a must watch! Re-live the story of this wild adventure across the Atlantic where just getting on and off the mothership was a mission in itself! There are plenty of hairy moments both on and off the water…Don’t miss it!

Jace Panebianco – Partner at Poor Boyz Productions: ‘You have to remember that the T.A.W.R 1998 was in a much different time. The technology for finding a missing sailor was pretty basic- I mean they gave us a reflective Kite! I remember the first race I did sailing so far away from the mothership that it became just a speck on the horizon. I tried my radio, got no answer- I felt really alone. It really gave me, as a 18-year-old kid motivation to sail fast to catch up! Most of all I remember the Royal Marines who drove the rescue boats, they seemed like characters out of a action movie- none of the crazy stuff that was happening seemed to phase them. Not the crazy swinging boat launch from the crane, not even getting squashed by the mothership while trying to get us onboard. I remember the seas being so big that I saw the massive propeller of the Kalebnicov come out of the water!’

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