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Here is a fresh one…
Graham is on a short holiday from Princeton.
Check out his wave 360…
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Here is a little pic of Joe coming off the water. We’re happy to hear Ike didn’t spoil the fun for windsurfing in Texas!

“Post Ike, the windsurfers are coming back out for Wednesday night racing. This is one of our Wednesday night racers, Joe Livingston, on his Mistral Prodigy, which is the prevalent race board on Galveston Bay. Hauk Wahl, also a Prodigy racer, took this picture. He regularly circulates a picture to the email thread of windsurfers in our Club and in the Wednesday night racing group.
Peter O’Connor”
John Skye Wins Pro Title at Tiree Wave Classic 2008. Read all about it here.
Special thanks to Beppe DNA SURF SHOP and Paolo from Windspirit.it for this test of the Panther.
A big thanks to Javier Iglesias Curras for sending along this wonderful video of the kids rig in action. This is the first time his 5 and 3 year old son used the Ezzy Kids rig.
We just got a great email from Guy Fletcher from the UK. Guy is a brilliant musician who works with the likes of Mark Knopfler among others. He was part of the band “Dire Straits”.
Guy learned to windsurf on the island of Montserrat, which was once home to one of the worlds finest recording studios (AIR Studios). Lots of other musicians shared their love of windsurfing and music on the island, like Sting. Sadly, hurricane Hugo and later volcanic activity shut things down.
Guy writes the following:
“Anyway, I just wanted to say that your sails absolutely rock. It took me a while to get used to the ’08’s but I have to say they are SO powerful and controllable. Now I have a couple of ‘09 Panthers and I can’t wait to really test them out.”

At home this month on the RRD FSW 90 and a 6.9 Ezzy wave SE in about 16 knots of warm South Westerly

…and ducking it

..no way…
yes that’s right…you can’t jump that high off that small chop. It IS me though. (the actual jump was probably around 8-10 ft.)
We look forward to hearing more from Guy!
thanks Frank for these very cool videos!!
First, here is some action on the Freewave
Tenerife on the Ezzy Wave Panther
Of Cape Town
Check out this very cool video from Baja this last August.
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running a free demo featuring the ‘09 Ezzy Wave Panther and Freewave today at Roosevelt from 11 to 5. Come on out!
Gary Morris will be at Doug’s Beach from 12 to 5 with a fleet of ‘09 Ezzy’s to try.
See ya there!
we received this email from our importer in Singapore…and felt we should share this incredible story.
We had a close-call yesterday when one of our local rider’s (named Ngo) rig had been struck by lighning when he was about to come on to the shore. Luckily he had suffered only minor numbness to his left foot.
Attached pictures showing the torn and damaged sections of the sail and mast.
Apparently the lightning charges hit through the top piece section of the sail into the mast tip and it travels downward to the mast extension when his foot got hit as well.
We are happy to report Ngo is doing just fine!
Our friend in Germany Wolfgang from Surf9999 sent us this footage from a recent demo of the new Panther.
Pictures provided by Frank Schneider, Borken
Be careful…footage is a little wobbly.
Best Wishes!
Wolfgang
Steilweg 5
53639 Königswinter
Steuernummer 222/5053/2308
USt-ID DE814670498
Tel. 0 22 44 / 87 30 82
Fax 01212-6-266-69-999
info@surf9999.de
Zertifizierter Internetshop: www.surf9999.de
Gary Morris will be at Rowena from 12 to 4:30 with a fleet of ‘08 and ‘09 Ezzy’s to try.
See ya there!
Here is a recent artice you should read if you ever plan on going to Greece to Windsurf!
First TR-4s arrived to Europe. Check out first impressions of Martin van Meurs and other MauiSails riders on forum.
Our Netherlands dealer just returned form incredible surf trip. Find out more about Barbados Island.
Gigi Madeddu our team rider from Sardinia/Italy spend three wonderful months in Brazil.
TeamTheBunch went to Brazil for winter training.
TeamTheBunch went to Brazil for winter training.
First TR-4s arrived to Europe. Check out first impressions of Martin van Meurs and other MauiSails riders on forum.
After a very good season Dirk Doppenberg has put a crown on his work by taking the Dutch National Production Record.
Patrick Vanhoof B-52 hit 40.18 knots on TR-3 and became the new speed record holder for Belgium.
Young female team rider from Belgian Rolien Caers scored some big waves in France.
MauiSails announced today the departure of Kevin Pritchard, who left the brand to pursue new opportunities.
Positive test review of MauiSails Legend and Global in German Surf Mag.
During new year event on Tarifa (South of Spain) MauiSails Belgian team rider took the first place.
December 23 of 2007 is the 29th anniversary of the idea that began in an old warehouse and became MauiSails.
What to do when you local spot starting to cover with ice?
Martin has accomplished his goal of being the first to record a GPS top speed of over fifty knots.
Young guns of freestyle dominated Benelux events - Rolien Caers and Steven Van Broeckhoven.
3rd place on the gps ranking of the WORLD in Nautical Mile category.
Check out MauiSails offer for 2008.
Report from Femke van der Valk.
Steven Van Broeckhoven wins Belgian Championships Freestyle Windsurfing 2007 on F2/Maui Sails!
MauiSails Kevin Pritchard fought his way to 5th position.
Dennis Littel came out as the Dutch Course Race Champion 2007!
This windsurfing festival event toke place on sunny weekend of 25-26 of August in Holland.
MauiSails takes third place in Turkey PWA Slalom World Cup.
Arjen de Vries : "I was surprised with the early planing capacities of the sail".
Check out a nice interview with Taty Frans on the Windsurfjournal.com.
In the weekend of 25 & 26 August 2007 Project44 organises the fourth edition of The Mission, one of the biggest amateur windsurf events in the world.
45.6 knots (86.5 km/h) run on TR-3 at Tarifa.
Team the Bunch, Niek van der Linde and Ben van Hooydonk on TV.
Maui Sails Team Captain Rides the TR-3 to 2nd in Fuerteventura.
Kevin Pritchard drives his TR-3's into second place in GC World Cup.
Maui Sails continues to dominate Kanaha Slalom.
Kevin Pritchard comes 2nd in PWA Lanzarote World Cup.
Check out the great interview with Kevin Pritchard on www.stableroad.com. There are some good shots of Kev as kid and plenty of insight into his latest thinking.
Check out the great interview with Kevin Pritchard on www.stableroad.com. There are some good shots of Kev as kid and plenty of insight into his latest thinking.