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50 years of windsurfing

June 11, 2017

The sport of windsurfing took sail in 1967. Jim Drake of the USA was the first to mount a sail on a surfboard. Soon after, Calle Schmidt took his windsurf board to the island of Sylt, and made the new sport trendy.

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