Windsurfer with teak booms, wooden uni, wooden centreboard, 1978. I got my own one that winter.

A couple of years later, I read the piece in Windsurf magazine about Mike Waltze and the first the sinker waveboard; almost the first short board. I found a surfboard on a cleanup pile, glassed in a hole for the wooden T piece from my Windsurfer rig, stuck in some seatbelt footstraps, and went sailing....for about four feet, maximum. Then I got a Bombora mk 1, which was an original Windsurfer with straps, scoop and the back cut off.

I still have two copies of that mag, sitting in the garage with my ex Robby Naish custom boards from the early '80s.

The first production board I road on was the first windsurfer board I learned on. It was a TC Beacher, a huge thing that was good for learning.

So those whose first production board you rode on was a fairly small production board, what sort of board did you learn to windsurf on?

Yeah sorry, I learnt on a Dolphin Flyer, but this guy one day had a miniature twin hull ,scaled down hobbie cat board it was awesome, it would come up on one hull in 8 knots :) And tacking and gybing you couldn't really stuff up hmm?Better get one for (Sup Windsurf )school