Look out for the Logo

Look out for the NEW Team QSW logo around the magazines, website, and on all kit we send out. We have named our Race / Freestyle Teams QSW (Quayside Windsurfers) to make it easy to see us on the water or any of our support vehicles.
Also look out for the FREE stickers we are sending out with all orders off the website.

Neil

Review of my North Silver 150-200

I now have the new 'Bull nose' North Silver boom over the last few sails. Have to say its absolutely bloody awesome. You can set the boom to feel soft or hard to aid early planing and direct feel on bigger sails in lighter winds, and a softer feel on smaller sails giving the sailor a more comfortable ride, and believe me it really does work.
Direct feel, narrow grip, and extremely good quality SDM or RDM front clamp. All in all my top recommendation for a boom that costs less than £150!!!!

More hard pre UKWA training....

Once again anyone who knows the QSW Team riders will know all too well just how seriously we take our pre race training. Today myself and Steve Chatten got up to Wells to get some light wind training in before our Slalom race series this year. After Steve badly bruised his finger on our last training session last week, I took to the water first on my Tabou Rocket 125Ltd and Severne NCX 9.0mtr sail. After all on the beach had finished taking piss that I would be wasting my time as was not enough wind ( and I have to say I agreed!!) I took to the water to find I got up on the plane very early and blasted across the bay.
Oh how they ate their words........... Steve never got out as he was too busy dilly dallying around so we decided some tactical analysis was required as you can see...

........God help us!!

Thanks for some great sailing...

This week has been an awesome week for sailing with NE winds allowing us to enjoy locations we don't normally sail on a port tack. It began with a 6.5 sail @ Brancaster on Wednesday with Team Rider Steve Chatten. We sailed till dusk...a great feeling.
Friday evening myself and Team Freestyler Pete ( The DR)Morris had a ball on a NE wind on 5.7's and gorgeous bump and jump conditions ( except my involuntary jump/ 1/2 forward...`Hmmm') and onto enjoy a cool beer. Then Saturday morning myself and Steve again jined plenty of the Wells faithful for a light wind slalom style blast. Paul Perry, Paul Wilkins, Gary Batterick rigged up the big guns with 9.0mtr NCX sails so Steve, on my 9.0 Severne NCX had his work cut out. I rigged a 7.5mtr NCX on a Tabou Rocket 125Ltd and blasted with Lee Custance, Graham Wales and Mathew Scales who all were really pushing me. Lee especially pushed me hard but, luckily for me, he kept spinning out with too smaller fin for his Hellcat 7.5mtr NP.

It was also great to see Richard and Geff joining us for some light wind blasting and blowing away their sailing cobwebs.

...so a great week me thinx!!!!............. only 2 weeks to Tarifa 2009 - look out for my Tarifa blog in May...

The NEW North Booms are here!

North's NEW iFront booms are finally here. They have the all NEW iFront - the clamp that you can set either for a soft feel or a hard feel for more feedback from the sail. The short sizes up to 1.50 m now feature an ergonomically ideal New School bending curve so that both hands are at an equal distance from the centre of the sail, thus preventing the front arm from being overstretched. I have one on my van to look at so catch me at the beach and you too could own the latest technology from North. Check out this link to see the NEW North iFront boom

Team QSW Tour Bus on the Radio

The BBC were treated to a good look around the Team QSW tour motorhome this week. It was used to get Becky Betts ( BBC radio reporter) around the Norfolk area and enjoy how a Windsurf Team lives on the road. She loved the facilities onboard such as Sky TV, DVD, fixed bedroom, and full solar back up.

.....The Team QSW is gaining momentum for the UKWA in 2009

Mistral Deals JUST IN!

We have just taken delivery of some 2008 Mistral Sceamer RD's, Explosion RD's, Explosions and there are some excellent deals at the moment. The Mistral boards we have are all centred around freeride catering for the low intermediate, Intermediate and Advanced sailors. Prices start from £599..... a saving of over £300 on their normal price. Click on the highlighted text to see what we have!

Testing continues....

The QSW Team motorhome was tested over the Easter weekend on the South coast. Neil and his wife Sara gave the Team vehicle her second test run prior to the 1 month tour of Tarifa ( Spain) in May. They first visited the famous windsurfing spot of West Wittering and then moved onto Hayling island and then Poole harbour over the Easter break. The winds were very light so much of their time was biking and checking out the competition ( and their prices!!).
The QSW Kon-Tiki is being well used at the moment including her debut in a national magazine in the next couple of months.

Team Motorhome tested...

Me and Sara got a chance to test the new QSW Team riders UKWA Team motorhome last weekend. The Swift Kontiki 669 has everything we need to be self sufficient at the national Slalom events. Check out the all new QSW Team logo!!

Where have I been???

Sorry for the lack of input the last month but my google mail account went AWOL. I have been busy exporting kit, sailing in the cold North sea, and hooking up with, Local hot shots Jonny F, Keiron R and the legendary Dave White to write a feature length article to be published in one of the UK windsurf magazines..........look out for the excellent adventures we had including Dave attempting to slice Jonny's board with my 2009 Rrd Freestylewave 85Ltd!!!

Neil - QSW