Windsurfer Class FRance

The french championships

The Windsurfer has been around as a board since 1968, the first boards were already in the Netherlands in 1973 (first orange, yellow and later white). The first Windsurfer Championships were organized on the Paterswoldsemeer The Netherlands in 1975 with approximately 100 participants.

The Windsurfer Story

The origins of our sport goes back to 1963 when Newman and Naomi Darby made the first documented sailboard. The first “Windsurfer Class” board was born in 1967 thanks to Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer. The idea was to allow surfing even without the waves, using a sail connected to a board with a cardan joint and it was perfected with the help of Alan Parducci.