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fearlu · Post by **fearlu** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:06 am

And so was Jim Drake, no matter what Hoyle Schweitzer said!

(WARNING: poleboarding reference-- only for serious students of windsport history.)

Bonus question: In what year did "Windsurfer" (the manufacturer) have an injunction against other international manufacturers prohibiting them from selling their windsurfing gear in the US?

:-k

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:21 pm

"Bonus question: In what year did "Windsurfer" (the manufacturer) have an injunction against other international manufacturers prohibiting them from selling their windsurfing gear in the US?"

Interesting question to which I have no reply..
HUMmm..
Isnt that kinda like to getting the goverment to back your monopoly?? That sounds unlawfull in the United States, seems more Bahaman then American..

I started sailboarding in the bay around 81' but quikly feel out of it again after moving back to wind-less So'Cal...
YEARS LATER while speaking to Robbie Naish about his, "sailboarding" he said: "where do you come from??", my responce was WHAT?! He said ,"no-one calls it sailboarding anymore" to which I replyed, "what do you call it now-a-days?". WINDSURFING!, he retorted.
He must have thought I'd just rolled in from Kansas as I responded "that's weird, WindSurfer was a brand name when I used to sailboard".
SO!, What year did "Windsurfer', brand" the sport of sailboarding?
L.M.G.

fearlu · Post by **fearlu** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:12 pm

That would be 1973, the year they trademarked the brand name "Windsurfer".

Robbie was sponsored by them as a kid, long before there was a Naish brand-name of course! Although his dad was shaping, probably shortly thereafter. Maybe that's why he questioned you? Little whipper-snapper. You ever see those photos of him as a kid riding the original teak booms and displacement hulls in the waves?

I think he prefers his Naish "Fish" kiteboard for those Kailua conditions!

Proparoo · Post by **Proparoo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:15 pm

Windsurfer International, a company Hoyle Schweitzer and Jim Drake established on the basis of a patent granted to them in 1970 for a "wind-propelled apparatus.

Jim Drake's and Hoyle Schweitzer's patent for a sailboard was granted in 1970 (filed 1968 - reissued 1983).

Schweitzer bought out Drake's share in 1973

In the late 1970's, Mistral, a Swiss manufacturer was sued by Windsurfer International in Germany.

So I guess it is ine the late 70's

Big Dave, don't I get some points for coming up with all this useless trivia?

I did find it very interesting to learn about Newman Darby and the fact that it appears he was the actual inventor of the Windsurfer, and I thought it was Jim all along....

I say the answer to your question is 1978

Proparoo · Post by **Proparoo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:21 pm

Revision:

"In 1983, Schweitzer sued Swiss board manufacturer Mistral"

So is it 1983 ?

Shit, now I know I have way too much time on my hands...

fearlu · Post by **fearlu** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:34 pm

Yeah, but since you actually looked that crap up, we have no SOUP for you!

(The injunction may have been granted in '82 now that I think about it...)

Enough already!

Proparoo · Post by **Proparoo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:47 pm

What, do you actually think anyone but you knows / remembers crap like this?

Give me soup NOW!!!

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