"You know you're an Old Windsurfer when"

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hardie
hardie
WA
4133 posts
WA, 4133 posts
27 Nov 2020 1:21pm
When Kai Lenny starts looking middle aged






Yes I'm bored and laid up in bed with the Flu for 8 days in a row
hardie
hardie
WA
4133 posts
WA, 4133 posts
27 Nov 2020 1:25pm
When every windsurfer around you is getting into Foiling, and you're longing to find a Longboard with a Daggerboard in the Buy and Sell pages
curac
curac
WA
1160 posts
WA, 1160 posts
27 Nov 2020 1:35pm
it hurts
GasHazard
GasHazard
QLD
385 posts
QLD, 385 posts
27 Nov 2020 5:35pm
When an hour's enough, and an hour and a half is too much.
John340
John340
QLD
3410 posts
QLD, 3410 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:30pm
You forget how to jump on port tack
mikey100
mikey100
QLD
1109 posts
QLD, 1109 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:47pm
... when in the morning, your bowels open before your eyes.
musorianin
musorianin
QLD
597 posts
QLD, 597 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:56pm
You take up an easier sport, like lawn bowls or kitesurfing
Orange Whip
Orange Whip
QLD
1080 posts
QLD, 1080 posts
27 Nov 2020 8:08pm
In the work place you're still on a high from the stoke of your weekend endeavours on Wednesday morning when all the dead beat ****ers half you age are still moaning about their dead boring ****ing weekend.
Tardy
Tardy
5337 posts
5337 posts
27 Nov 2020 6:09pm
You blame your gear ...so you buy new sh1t
morts
morts
WA
192 posts
WA, 192 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:16pm
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer
Stretchy
Stretchy
WA
1053 posts
WA, 1053 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:21pm
morts said..
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer


When you prep for a big day by dosing up with Celebrex
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
27 Nov 2020 7:37pm
when people are talking about making you an immortal.
And when there are only 9 of you in your GPSTC age bracket
remery
remery
WA
3709 posts
WA, 3709 posts
27 Nov 2020 9:10pm
When most of your fins are US box.
segler
segler
WA
1663 posts
WA, 1663 posts
28 Nov 2020 12:32am
When you can't take your cane with you on the water.
segler
segler
WA
1663 posts
WA, 1663 posts
28 Nov 2020 1:05am
When you constantly have one foot on the banana peel.

--RM, age 72
mark62
mark62
511 posts
511 posts
28 Nov 2020 1:33am
When you start buying/choosing food based on fibre content, not flavours
LeeD
LeeD
3939 posts
3939 posts
28 Nov 2020 3:19am
When all your sailing buds are 20-40 years younger than you and the good sailors are 40-50 years younger.
John340
John340
QLD
3410 posts
QLD, 3410 posts
28 Nov 2020 6:06am
morts said..
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer


You take the Voltaren before you sail
Ben1973
Ben1973
1008 posts
1008 posts
28 Nov 2020 4:23am
Your only as old of the kit you ride, it is that women you hold, can't remember must be getting old
Gorgo
Gorgo
VIC
5124 posts
VIC, 5124 posts
28 Nov 2020 7:42am
... after 30 years they take you out from the side of the house and put you on the hard rubbish collection.
LeeD
LeeD
3939 posts
3939 posts
28 Nov 2020 5:34am
I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.
Brent in Qld
Brent in Qld
WA
1471 posts
WA, 1471 posts
28 Nov 2020 7:51am
When you remember your first board having rope to connect the sail to the board.
WaynoB
WaynoB
NSW
393 posts
NSW, 393 posts
28 Nov 2020 11:06am
When all your sailing mates have grey hair or none.
Searoamer
Searoamer
NSW
303 posts
NSW, 303 posts
28 Nov 2020 11:43am
You think Zimmer is a new foil brand
Madge
Madge
NSW
471 posts
NSW, 471 posts
28 Nov 2020 11:56am
when up hauling a board you expect to get whacked between the legs by the mast foot releasing for no reason other than the fact that its just a wooden wedge.
BSN101
BSN101
WA
2390 posts
WA, 2390 posts
28 Nov 2020 11:47am
Sail number is the same as the yr that you started - AUS084
elmo
elmo
WA
8890 posts
WA, 8890 posts
28 Nov 2020 12:37pm
When you think you're old
evlPanda
evlPanda
NSW
9207 posts
NSW, 9207 posts
28 Nov 2020 3:44pm
LeeD said..
I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.







And here's me, lucky if I can get season, wind, tide, weekend, and now even parking, to all line up.

When you start a Seabreeze thread titled "Getting back into it after 10 years off!", ask about what has changed, and everyone replies pretty much nothing, except the colours, which are retro colours from 30 years ago.
Tardy
Tardy
5337 posts
5337 posts
28 Nov 2020 2:16pm
When magnesium and beer become your best friend after sailing ...and your language is not fit for young kids to hear when getting up to take a leak
Swindy
Swindy
WA
456 posts
WA, 456 posts
28 Nov 2020 3:47pm
For us on the large side.
When you look down you haven't been able to see your harness hook for some years.
da vecta
da vecta
QLD
2515 posts
QLD, 2515 posts
28 Nov 2020 5:56pm
When you come in from a big session on the water, grab a beer and kick back and still believe the Wallabies can win back the Bledisloe Cup.
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