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Fetched: June 30th, 2006, 3:55pm CEST
1983 September - 1983 September |
We hadn’t even gotten to see the sail working much. We were
so amazed that it worked at all that we didn’t have time to get on the binos
and study. Instead we were becoming Wing rebuilders. And the mast was getting
heavier all the...
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Fetched: June 27th, 2006, 10:31am CEST
1983 September - 1983 September |
With the total failure of the two masts I quickly got to
know Dimitrje over the phone. First, we tried to figure out why it had failed, and
then we could fix it. Apparently, the tool that was used to cut the groove in
the tube for th...
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Fetched: June 24th, 2006, 11:30am CEST
1983 September - 1983 September |
There was lots of other stuff still going on all around us,
but suddenly the entire focus of our work was The Wing. That’s what Dimitrje
called it and there it was in big letters down the side. The Wing. Up until
that time, a gray Ampro ...
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Fetched: June 18th, 2006, 9:07pm CEST
1983 August - 1983 September | By August, Fred was fully into serious training of every kind. Having been a world record swimmer along with Mark Spitz, Charlie Hickock, and Don Schollander on the 400m individual relay team at Stanford, Fred knew what conditioning and training did...
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Fetched: June 18th, 2006, 9:07pm CEST
1983 July - 1983 August |
The most interesting thing happening was a story that
Geoffrey heard was about Ken Winner. He found this guy in Utah that was making a miracle wing mast out
of exotic carbon fibre. His name is
Dimitrje Milovich, and his resume was alread...
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Fetched: June 16th, 2006, 11:57am CEST
1983 July - 1983 September | The Gorge Pro-Am was a great racing event that was attended
by most of the top professionals of the time. Phil McGain, Ken Winner, Nevin
Sayre, Anders Bringdal, and a bunch of other Europeans were in attendance.
Geoffrey went there to be involved...
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Fetched: June 13th, 2006, 9:12am CEST
1983 May - 1983 June |
With the development cycle for production designs taking on
its own life, we were still struggling to keep the whole show floating. We still
hadn’t seen any return from the work on the TriRadials, and the local sail
business was a consta...
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Fetched: June 11th, 2006, 6:30am CEST
1982 December - 1983 March |
Very shortly after Geoffrey got back from Hong
Kong we had to ramp up almost everything we were doing. We would
soon find out that our relationship was sort of like being chained to a big
bear in the forest. We would be protected as long ...
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Fetched: June 4th, 2006, 8:30pm CEST
1981 November - 1982 March |
Neil Pryde soon turned over all relations with us to Geoff
Cornish. Together we would plot and plan how to make the most out of the Hawaii connection. Geoff was only about twenty seven, and had
done some very creative marketing in his lead up t...