Looks like a Hi Fly

looks like a Crit to me, which I think (?) is/was a French brand....

I'm with Sick EM.

Looks like a Crit circa 1984 vintage.

- They made some good slalom boards in their time.

- J

you'll every now and then see a Crit board show up on E-Bay. keep your eyes open there and see next time one comes up if it looks the same .

it's a sunsurfer.

i sold quite a lot of them.

thai built early eighties, knob on the nose.

performed ok, spongy rig, if thats the last one, burn it now.

ThatS a most impresive find.
The paint job is spectacular.
What is the bottom like ?
Is it rounded?

Might be delfous or something with that similar name.

Its got that universal simliar to the early windrush gear?

It does look french

um um um .I really wanted to win the prize to.

puffness,

each country had it's own name for it, in australia they were called the sunsurfer by the importer,

in u.s.a. they would have been called something strong and patriotic,
in new zealand they would have been called something to do with sheep,
and in ireland they would have been called something silly.

in the country of origin they would have been called the hwang king soongay.

thats mistral is ****ing insane

I'm with Greenleader. I mentioned to Puffin earlier that I thoought it was a generic brand that went under different names. I still can't find the right old mag, but while I respect the guys on the other site who said it was a Blue Marlin I think Greenleader's correct.

Ahh, boards of the early '80s. Remember the Sodim with the fins that stuck horizontally out of the sides of the 6" high square rails?

I will do some praise singing on my blog, and will get the owner of the Sunsurfer/Blue Marlin/miscellaneous beast to produce it for a few more photos.

Thanks again, everyone.

...as for performance it was super quick, but tough with out footstraps. The botton was quite rounded at the front which decreased towards the back.

Much faster than the one designs or other things out around that time.

I also agree that the damn uni joint would come out of those 2 plugs. I lost a 4.2m^2 from a sea skip cause my cousin sat on the sail when the board was up side down.

I was gutted.

Ash

anyway puffness,

they produced two boards in the early eighties, one was a modified flog mould of a mistral competition and the other was a modified flog mould of a windglider sport which was the little brother to the olympic model. they (the asian copiers) filled in deck concaves to avoid copying too closely and that is the board you have. (sucked in) enjoy this forgettable piece of history and please don't ever locate a board called the "stip holiday" from holland.

oh yeah and in passing comment, the crits were a class act let down by their name (wtf is a crit ) the 600 was a cruiser but a little unstable, the 630 low vol but still 12 glorious feet i luvved, and the fame claimer the D-2 still wetting my pants over that one. anyone still got one?

first weekend of august, 1979