Beach Telegraph

Give us a Clew

If you live near Sydney, it's the Aussie (Asia Pacific) Premiere of The Windsurfing Movie II on August 12th! You have to go - it's for charity...

The Butterfly Effect is hitting Cabarete.

K4 Fins (as-featured in the June issue of Windsurfer International Magazine) now have a Blog and new Quad models available.

WIND Magazine are fascinated by Finian Maynard's Magic Clew...

The Freestyle starts today at the PWA Fuerteventura Grand Slam.

It's hard to find details of the 2010 Maui race Series online, but this weekend it's the 2010 NeilPryde  State Championships at Kanaha. 

I heard a rumour about free beer and food but otherwise there's a new organic food van to help you refuel at Kanaha Beach Park - Aloha Grinds!

Sneak Peaks

Lanes action.

How-to...

This is The Kode.

Another early 2011 sail proto.

Let the Games Begin

Test out The Fly 2010 with this new game in conjunction with NeilPryde.

This weekend marks the start of Round 1 of the Windsurfing South Africa (WSA) Tour with racing at Sterkies reservoir.

The tour takes in some hot wavesailing locations too and if you've only ever heard of Cape Town for Wavesailing then think again and check out the rest of the coastline's potential.

WSA are keen to encourage international entrants too so why not check out some early season discounted flights and hit the road?

Windsport grabbed Starboard Shaper Tiesda You in the Gorge and grilled him on the Atom 99 and Flare 98

Promoting SUP - but I think it'd be good if Laird Hamilton lent windsurfing a helping hand with his image...

Rockin' Rollin' Riding

New and improved NOAA forecast buoys for Hawaii.

Manuel Klövekorn freestylin' in France.

A [Google Translated] interview of Keith Teboul and his views on Quad fins by U-Ride.

KP's amped about his water housings.

Named after Mauritius' funnest reef break, Manawa Surf Shop in Firenze, Italy is finally open!

The new rolling and roaming format for the Irish Speedsailing Association has proved to be successful from the start.

This past weekend, reigning record-holder John Kenny took the lead after Round 1 in 22-28 knot conditions in Belmullet.

Here are some nice alternative Maui lifestyle and Hot Sails shoot snaps from Mystery Bob.

Planche Mag issue 319 is out tomorrow.

Sweet perspectives.

News of a new newsletter for German windsurfers looking for travel deals.

Information on Camp One Surf Camps for Danish windsurfers looking to improve their skills.

How cool would it be if we could get some of these NeilPryde threads into The Hustle Project for you guys?

If anyone at Pryde Group, or any other brands, wants to offer up some prizes to readers for a fun quiz then please mail me for details. Thanks.

So that brings me to today's question to win another Spartan Rash Vest from the generous, quality British wetsuit brand   - who are also offering a Wetsuit to the winner of the 'Grand Finale'  quiz this Friday.

Please answer this question and say why you want a Spartan Rash Vest so much.

Q2 What is the neoprene thickness of the XTR convertible?

Please leave your answers in the Comments section below and mail your answers to me. Thanks.

Congratulations to Stoofer who won yesterday's prize by corrrectly answering that Spartan have been making wetsuits since 1958.

Stoofer said ' I'd like a Spartan Rashie because, like wetting yourself in public, everybody can see it, but only you can feel the inner warmth.' Nice. I hope he only means peeing in his wetsuit in public?

Quick Blast

Coaching legend Guy Cribb's InTuiton, roaming location Wave Surfari has a green light for this weekend.

A link to Egor Popretinskiy's 'Starboard Tack' Freestyle video on WSJ.

Hey, Che.

The usual excellent selection of shots and videos on U-Ride's homepage.

Apparently the Team Pryde in deepest darkest Peru link didn't work yesterday. Sorry about that it dissapeared off the face of the earth [web]. Here it is again. I hope.

Congratulations Yoli de Brendt.

A [German language] interview with Graham Ezzy.

Strong wind's a pain in the neck for KP.

News from the Aussie wavesailing Nationals. In Tasmania.

Stash

Bad news for youngster Philip Koster. The queue to get into the Cabo Verde World Cup just got one body shorter. Here's wishing Philip a speedy recovery.

And a change in gear for Nik Baker according to Windsurf Journal. (French language - or Google translated page here.) Congratulations to Nik too on the growing family.

NeilPryde treat you to a video adventure in Morocco with Fabrice Beaux. What a great 'double frames section'.

Andy had a 'sick-o slick' session on a new stick.

I wonder if Baker, Mistral  and Pryde want to contribute to our 'Hustle' project to get you guys some booty? Let's see.

First out of the blocks to toss-out the freebies is Fanatic who've got some T-Shirts for questions I'll be asking in the coming days - plus you have to say why you want the shirt and like the brand for when I choose the winners.

Please leave your answer in the Comments section below AND mail me at [email protected]

I have to say there have been some great offers so far, but some of the goodies won't even be available until the of the month, and some are coming in April - so there's lots to look forward to - and hopefully even more.

OK. Question 1 for a Fanatic T-Shirt:

What is the longest-running name of a board model in the current Fanatic range?

Rules: 1. No pros or sponsored riders or dealers are allowed to answer. We will know who you are! 2. I'll think up more rules as I go along.