back to the future

i found this single fin beauty in my parents garage the other day. my father bought it somewhere in the 60s in hawaii, tried to learn to surf on it and mostly failed. i guess because it is not exactly a beginners board. anyway, when my brother and i were teenagers we thought it would be sick for windsurfing in super strong winds and added a masttrack. luckily we never sailed it, it would have broken apart after the first chop. now, years later, my friend lennart and i figured it would be good to repair it and surf it after it had been lying dry for so long. 

badly wounded

 shaped by Mike Larmont - shaper of Lightning Bolt boards

unfortunately the stringer and foam cracked while sanding all the damage so the surgery was bigger then thought 

even more badly wounded

any shaper would kill me for my repair techniques

 carbon always helps

  

ready to carve!

Cold Hawaii #1

It was about time for the season here in Denmark to start. The North Sea is still around 5 degrees and needs to warm up fast now. The air temperature wasn´t much higher but from now on it only gets warmer! More sessions will hopefully follow soon.

France

Though it´s April already the snow wouldn´t melt in Germany so I spent the last two weeks driving through France looking for wind, waves and warm weather. The first week I spent around Marseille. An area that is beautiful in almost any aspect. Luckily I got even a couple of windsurfing days. The session in the video was filmed in Carro. The second week I stayed around Hossegor and scored unbelievable surf every day. The beachbreaks are heavy and I got seriously pounded all the time but also snuck some barrel views from as deep as I have never been before. I want to thank everyone I met along the trip for their kindness!

some frenchman close to heaven...

another frenchman getting barreled.

my attempts

Fuerte Northshore

scored 6 nice days on Fuerte´s northshore before back to studies

frontside/backside

frontside, -1°C, onshore VS backside, 22°C, offshore

didnt think so before but windsurfing can be fun even in zero degrees celsius...

thanks Lena, Dave and Eva for the pictures!

winter surf

not a single low pressure system was making its way through northern europe lately resulting in weeks of straight easterly winds and temperatures around zero degrees. best to keep warm inside these days but after a while you feel the need to feel water more than anything. 

a few friends a I felt that way a couple of days ago and headed to Timmendorf for a minus 4° onshore surf session. it wasn't good by any means but it felt epic to be in the water for about 3 hours...




... a little surprised when I saw me the next day in Germany´s biggest boulevard "BILD" and on the header of the the "Lübecker Nachrichten"...

Storm Chase Pictures

more pictures from Ireland. copyright RedBull contentpool / John Carter, Sebastian Marko