welcome Claus to the game....and where did you surf? Barcole ??? have fun on GTC !!!

Thanks Aljo, yes, Barcola was the place. Tramontana is not good for speed here, but with Bora wind I hope that the Barcoletta team can be competitive with our fast croatian neighbours.. :)

Welcome Claus!!  Hopefully you will be joined by team-mates soon?

Welcome to the addiction of GPSTC. Enjoy

welcome italy!

Thamks to you all! 

There should be at least 3 slalom guys joining the team soon.. Some freestylers will probably also join, and thats good as they can assure that we are at least two surfers on the water on the same day,- and often they do lots of kilometers and nice alpha500's.. 

Benvenuta Italia!

Welcome Italia!!!!!

Welcome neighbours! :)

Welcome Italy!

dobrodosla Italija!!!!!!

Che cosa significa "dobrodošla" ???  Benvenuti? Ou yes. 

Welcome Italia, congratulazioni Claus!!!

Ciao  [my limit of Italian ] and great to see another country joining the GPSTC.

Grazie a tutti – Thanks - Hvala lijepa!

Let me present the two new team members: Michele and Jurex!

Michele is probably the fastest of us! He won GPS Lario Speed 2010 and 2011 (category: Sea) and was also the fastest overall in Fanatic Speed Contest 2011, which was held in the Gulf of Trieste, Italy. Michele is also an excellent free-styler.

Jurex is a former longboard windsurfing champion and world class bodybuilder who, a couple of years ago, decided to pickup to his old passion: windsurfing! He's getting faster and faster and was placed 3rd in GPS Lario Speed 2011 (category: Sea) and 5th overall in Fanatic Speed Contest 2011. Jurex is very passionate about windsurfing, - you could see him on the water this Monday, - the air temperature was only 1°C (=34°F)..

Good wind to you all and have fun!

Claus

Welcome to the comp

welcome Italy!!!

Welcome Italy. Are there many speed strips around to take advantage of those +30 knot days?

Great to see another team and another country join the GTC. Looking forward to seeing many posts from what sounds like a very competitive team

Thanks.

Unfortunately there are no real speed strips in the NE Italy as far as I know,- windsurfing is strictly forbidden in lagoons and canals.. The equipment used by us are slalom boards from 90+ liters as the strongest wind near Trieste (Bora) blows offshore to the open sea and less volume would be risky,- you have to be able to return to the shore if the wind certainly dies.. On other spots, Bora is more or less side-shore, - there we have some shallow water areas with sea-grass and chop, - not ideal conditions for speed, however surfing there is much more secure in wintertime..

In NE Italy we also have other wind regimes like Scirocco, Libeccio, Tramontana and Levante, but they rarely exceed 20knots..

We hope to competitive, but for us the main thing is to be fast for the given conditions and to have fun!

PS Today Bora is blowing strongly (35-69knots) and very cold (-2.2°C), so windsurfing in offshore conditions would be suicidal!

We are not faraway, come to Cherso once.. in semi-suicidal weather conditions ;)

Welcome aboard!!