"All the windsurfer and even Innovation explorer records are done in perfectly flat water only a few meters aways from a dry sandbar, the coast or in a specially dug ditch."

that may be true of the new records...but windsurfers hit 40+ mph regularly in rough water...it might not be 45 knotts ...but still 40 mph in a wicked 3-4' chop on top of a good ground swell is still moving really fast on the water.

I thought you guys would be much more tuned into windsurfing in europe than we are here in the US...but either you live where the windsurfing sailing talent is on the less extreme side of things or maybe it just never interested you to the point of really paying a lot of attention to it. Usually when the conditions are really good for high performance windsurfing no ones on the beach because they don't like getting sand blasted...Tell Dunkerbeck you can't go fast on rough water...


Regards,
Bob