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Flashbacks: First Clamp-on Boom

Alex Stankie
2010-02-10 16:50:52 | 781 views | 4 Comments

The tie-on boom is dead! Long live the Link! After a year and a half of preparation, the Link is ready to hit the market. The new boom front-end, which clips rather than ties onto the mast, was designed by Tornado sailors Hans Barth and Dave Humble. The designers plan on marketing the Link’s safety features. It allows windsurfers to reef their sails in case of emergency. Humble plans to adapt the Link to new products, should they become common equipment. WindRider Editor Nancy K. Crowell believes this might be “a link to the future” of windsurfing.


Images above are pages from the August 1984 issue.

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4 Responses to “Flashbacks: First Clamp-on Boom”

  1. scott c says:
    February 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    Thats a pretty cool blast from the past, how about this…the full size electronic windsurfing simulator….with projection screen

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  2. scott c says:
    February 26, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    I'd post a pic if I knew how on here

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  4. Nancy K. Crowell says:
    March 30, 2010 at 3:36 am

    Those were the good ole days.

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