Steve Thorne collects his new ride from Nik Baker at Wet'n'Dry Boardsports

Wet’n’Dry Boardsports team rider Steve Thorne has landed sponsorship with Fanatic Boards. Steve will be running various Fanatic demos along with Wet’n’Dry Boardsports and will be at a beach near you soon. Steve says “It’s a great chance to try some of this fantastic kit. Having demo kit to hand on a day when it’s windy enough for people to experience the boards’ true potential”.

“To be involved with Fanatic is a no-brainer, as their range is arguably the best on the market. The sickest looking boards which perform as well as they look. With some of the top guys in the world behind the brand the boards are guaranteed to impress”.

For more info on Fanatic demos see www.wetndryboardsports.com or call 01268 569988

Adam Sims at Point Clear, by Dave White

The run up to the weekend was a hype of excitement as people sent out texts left right and centre trying to work out what the exact plan was. The call went out on Wednesday and the final call on Thursday evening. Point Clear, Essex it was to be.

We rocked up at 11/12 am on the Saturday and were competing by 1pm. Heat one got underway, Max Rowe, Oscar Carmichael, Ben Lee and Steve Thorne threw down their best moves to make it through to the final. Oscar Carmichael and Max Rowe sealed the deal with consistent high level moves.

In the Second heat, myself and John Palmer managed to storm through with a few safe moves each and then some of the new skool moves just to be sure.

The final got underway. I didn’t see too much of the others sailing as I was fully focused on landing my own moves, but every time I looked up everyone was landing every move they went for. Oscar even stepped it up and very nearly got a culo and a double spock. Funnels, punetas, spocks, switch konos, shakas, ponchs, forwards, air funnels, air bobs, flakas, air flakas and more were all laid down in the final. I had no idea who had taken it when we came into the beach and was super happy to hear I had won. Palmer had taken second and Max Rowe in third.

The following day we visited Marconi’s, an awesome low tide spot. With some great stunt ramps in the middle. Videos and photos were taken but we decided not to go ahead with a double elimination.

It was a great event and the format works extremely well, bring on the next one!

More at k669.blogspot.com

BOARDS November 2010

contents 267

NOVEMBER 2010

Cover

Ricardo Campello by Jerome Houyvet

features

TESTED – 5.3 POWER WAVE SAILS

The Clones down their protein shakes and get pumped up to feel the power on eight of the best big-hitting wavesails on the market…

TIREE WAVE CLASSIC

The 24^th edition of this legendary event may have got off to a shaky start, but Tiree rarely fails to deliver. George Shillito reports…

WORLD WINDSURFING GUIDE

Duncan Slater talks with publisher Udo Hölker about the latest epic edition of this must-have guide, which covers 100 top regions and details more than 1,200 of the best spots on Earth…

PWA ALMANARRE

This late addition to the World Tour saw a week of oestrogen fuelled racing in the south of France to determine who would be crowned 2010 PWA Women’s Slalom World Champion

PWA KLITMOLLER

Paul Griffiths reports on an action-packed double elimination off the Danish coast as 48 of the world’s heaviest hitters smacked and spun their way to precious world ranking points…

PWA SYLT

The September Sylt spectacular is the biggest event on the PWA calendar, and this year saw the conclusion to a scintillating season of world-class men’s PWA Freestyle and Slalom…

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Our perennial Greek correspondent, Freddie Andrews, celebrates his 71^st year and a decade of windsurfing and writing for BOARDS with this report on some of his favourite locations…

HAVE YOUR SAY

Simon Bornhoft’s new series provides a platform that gives real windsurfers – that’s you – the chance to voice your opinions about windsurfing and what the sport means to you…

FUERTEVENTURA XPRESSION

Ten go mad in Fuerte! Steve Thorne tells the tale as a motley crew of top UK freestylers hit the island’s windy shores fully amped for an Xpression session…

SPEED HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!

With the incredible growth of GPS speedsailing there’s never been a better time to find out just how fast you really can go. Pete Davis shows you how to get your GPS unit singing…

CLUBBING IT

Amanda Van Santen, RYA Chief Windsurfing Instructor, enlists the help of Steve Bowens to encourage windsurfers to get more in by getting out more…

REUNION WAVE CLASSIC

With eight days of non-stop hardcore action, 10 ripped sails, nine broken masts, three broken boards and four injured riders, the 2^nd La Réunion Wave Classic took no prisoners. Jamie Hancock reports…

regulars

DROPPING IN

PICTURE DESK

NEWS

SkyeChat

Sims o’Clock

SB WINDWISE

WANNABE A WAVESAILOR

BAKER ACADEMY

READERS’ PIX

NEXT ISSUE

OVER & OUT