Living the dream The journey of getting up and onto the foils…… Not quite sure what it was that flipped the switch, but it might have been that first flight on our second session of wing foiling. Don’t get me wrong, we really enjoyed the wing skill development, as we were sorting out the SUP Sailing Centreboard. Just like that first time flying on a dinghy, as it goes quiet, you accelerate and see just how much more this foiling can give, that combined with the huge grin was probably the trigger. The addiction is primed and ready for a summer of learning new skills, pushing the body and more ..read more

After our first sail with a wing on a SUP, we were determined to find an easy to use vehicle to develop these wing skills. One option was to find stable beginner windsurf boards that already had a daggerboard system. If you have one that is great, but you still have the issues of weight and transportation. We liked the idea of inflatable stand-up-paddleboards (SUP): easy to store, lightweight and soft when you fall on them! Stable Platform SUP’s ….Readily available, soft to land on, easy to transport…but dont work without a centreboard! The design process began, based on our early findings wi ..read more

It was a cold one…….. It was cold - really cold. Rob was the one with dry suit and drew the short straw in being the crash-test dummy for the two of us. Alan graciously drove the rib to get us further up the Hamble and obviously shouted words of encouragement/wisdom/ridicule. Anyway, it was cold, quite light and we had already decided that out borrowed SUP would disappear off down wind, if we attached a person (Rob) holding one of our wings to the SUP. To offset this, those who are old enough to remember their first windsurfing experience may remember a Wayler windsurfer. It had a slot with a ..read more

Why? This is why! Friends ask “Why would you want to put your ageing bodies through the process of learning another new watersport?” Perhaps that is the answer?  Putting our bodies aged 65 and 56 through the learning process we will no doubt make those bodies fitter and stronger….as long as they can survive the process!  This is no mid-life crisis! (we had those years ago!) no, this is about the relentless challenge of learning new sports. This one has the bonus of also leading to foiling and through our dinghy foiling we already have an addiction for silent flight on water. &n ..read more