Brian McDowell is on a personal crusade to promote windsurfing and to raise editorial standards in the sport.
By being in the thick of the action, The Beach Telegraph acts as a 'filter' of news by pointing to the hottest breaking stories online, and saving richer, in-depth content for the connoisseurs of fine features writing.
Launch Press Release
TBT is designed to inform and connect windsurfers together. Please consider this your place to post, read, comment on and suggest stories that other windsurfers should know about around the planet.
Created by Windsurfing writer Brian McDowell, TBT is intended to help spread news and ideas and shine the spotlight on all the greatest windsurfing websites, personalities and publications in the world.
'As a writer and windsurfer I’m hooked on being up-to-date on what’s going down on beaches around the globe’ confessed Brian, a regular contributor to worldwide magazines such as Boards, the former Press Officer for the PWA, and a long-time surf sports business figure having worked for leading brands such as Gaastra and Animal.
‘After a good few seasons around the PWA World Tour and in the industry I’ve often joked with the pros, amateurs and industry people about how the "Beach Telegraph" works - and now it just got even faster to spread the word!’
‘By developing a place where I can hear and see what readers like I can hopefully come up with great new ideas for magazine articles and web pieces for windsurfers to enjoy while getting my writing known to a wider audience. I’m hoping other Editors and writers might like to check in, borrow ideas or subscribe to the feed, but that’s not a problem as the purpose is mainly to promote windsurfing, stimulate thought and keep interest high. Who knows? Perhaps I’ll get the odd extra article published myself as a result – the most important thing with so many great sites, magazines, riders and talented Bloggers out there is to let everyone see all the news and hear what’s going on in the windsurfing world in one easy place and in a handy single-serving.’
The Beach Telegraph will:
• Post daily news summaries
• Host Live Chat
• Compare worldwide equipment test results
• Allow comments and discussion, trackbacks and RSS feeds and subscription by email
• Keep you in-the-know!
And, if you’ve got any nuggety news, sneak previews, ideas, rumours or opinions to share then please send them to hotgossip@beachtelegraph.com
